First Post

It was way,way too easy to set up a blog. Here's the deal: Go to Google, type "how to do a blog" fill in a few pieces of information and away you go. Since it's so easy to set up, I guess you have to focus your energy on making the content of a blog meaningful for people to read.

Since I wasn't really ready to start firing away, I'm not expecting great things from the first post. Guess I'll start in with why I want to get this going. For most of my 36 years, I have been obsessed with Alpine Ski Racing. I'm one of those guys who religiously reads Ski Racing, Eurosport, FIS.Com, AP Ski News, really anything that comes across the wire. I regularly wake up at 4:30 in the morning to follow live World Cup results on the internet, I watch all of the OLN coverage on TV, and I am seriously considering going to Canada, if not Torino, to catch the Olympics so I can watch start to finish Alpine Ski Coverage. I love it and can't get enough. I also follow plenty of other sports including (American) football, cycling, track and field, and I have found that there is a great deal of commentary and discussion about those sports, and not enough about Ski Racing. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Steve Porino and Chad Fleischer on TV, and John Meyer, for example, in the Denver Post, but maybe I can bring some of these disparate sources and ideas together into an interesting and thought provoking forum.

There will be plenty of ground to cover. In later blogs, I will share some of my experiences with the sport and why I think it is so fascinating and addicting. I'm also hoping to bring in some of the thoughts and ideas from people that I have met over the years who are part of the sport. There won't be many ground rules here, other than as Rome would say "have a take." Instead of then saying, "and don't suck," however, I'll say, "don't be a jerk." I want this place to be a forum for open and candid discussion, but since I would like all people who follow the sport to participate, the comments have to be in bounds.

This will serve as the test first post. A few takes will follow in the next couple of days.