“It’s T-G-I-F day”, someone declared. “Thank God its Friday”. I thought about for a second and grinned. Fridays are great and all, but I would just assume thank God its Monday, or even Wednesday. If you’ve watched “Office Space”, or have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, you might also have had the misfortune of hearing the phrase "sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays." What does that even mean? For a skier like me: not much. For the most part, weekends are race days, and weekdays are training days. Switch Mondays with Fridays and I’m almost back in high school, minus the academics.
Since Mondays mark the end of a race weekend, they’re just about the best day there is (exception: birthdays, Christmas ect.).
Tuesdays are great because you’re a little more recovered from racing. Monday you are relieved, but also fatigued. Tuesday you have the whole week ahead of yourself and you’re feeling stupendous.
Wednesday you’ve got intervals to do. You work hard but you know it’s for a good reason. When it’s done, it’s done. Wednesday is satisfying because you’ve accomplished those killer workouts. Unlike Tuesday you can now look forward to not doing intervals tomorrow.
Thursday is chill. There’s no stress because you’ve still got another day before the next race. You’re on holidays. Build a snow fort.
Friday is the last of the “training days”. You’re nervous but you’re in a great mood because you’re excited to race and you’ve just built a snow fort.
Saturday you’ve got to bust your ass. You waited all week for this now you get to turn on the after-burners and hit the NOS. If you win your drag race it’s a bonus, if you lose you have another race tomorrow!
Sunday you’ve got to double down: all or nothing. If you win your drag race you get to pop champagne (yesterday you couldn’t because you had a race the next day), if you lose you have the whole next week to look forward too.
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