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LAUREN
Park City, Utah
Today is going to be a great day. I can feel it in my bones. Things are
starting to come together, to line up in just the way I need them to.
I pull out into downtown Salt Lake City traffic, and the office where I
just verbally accepted a job offer fades away in my rearview mirror. After
several years staying at home, first as a newly married wife and then as a
new mom, I’ve finally made my way back into the world of sports
marketing.
And I’ve done it on my own: no handouts, no nepotism, no
connections. I got this job solely based on my own merit, and it’s the best
feeling.
“So you haven’t even told Josh yet?” Petra’s voice carries through the
speaker in my SUV as I approach a stoplight. Petra’s one of my three best
friends, but she’s the only one who knows the struggles Josh and I have had
over the past year and a half as we adjusted to being the parents of twin
girls.
Well, I’ve adjusted. He’s slowly pulled away.
“He hasn’t exactly been reachable these past few days,” I tell her.
“Where is he this time?” she asks.
Petra and Josh are both former professional ski racers. When she left
skiing many years ago, she started a new career, first as a model, then as an
event planner, and now she’s the host of a well-known TV show.
Josh retired more recently, and in the couple years since, he’s made his
living skiing—traveling to ski resorts all over to promote different brands
that sponsor him, filming videos and ads, and generally relishing the fact
that he still gets paid to ski even though he’s no longer competing.
“Somewhere in Washington. They were at Stevens Pass, then I think
they headed somewhere near Spokane a couple days ago. He’ll be home
tonight, but I texted him earlier and haven’t heard back yet. At least after
this trip, he’ll be home until Christmas.”
“Well, that’s a good thing,” she says encouragingly.
“I don’t know how you handle the load when Aleksandr is away,” I
say. Her husband plays in the NHL, so he’s gone a fair amount during the
season and together they have a seven-year-old adopted daughter.
“I just do.” I can practically hear her shrug over the phone as I change
lanes to head toward the on-ramp for I-80, the road that will take me into
the mountains and back to my home in Park City. “He was already traveling
when we got together, so it’s all I’ve known.”
Josh was also already skiing professionally when we met and got
married. He traveled a lot then, but since I’d quit my sports marketing job
in Boston in order to move out to Park City with him after we got engaged,
I was able to travel with him to his races that first year.
And I’d made some great girlfriends in Park City—starting with his
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