come out to a beautiful place, and they're just building and building and building,

and you have to get your head together to keep up with them and the progress

and the speed they get, the determination, the smiles on their faces.

And after you do that a couple times, you can't stay at home.

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Get out there and have some fun. Hello and welcome to the adventure sports podcast.

This is your host, Kurt Linville.

Today we have an expert in coaching adaptive sports.

Some of you may be familiar with the Paralympics. Well, today we have Greg Rawlings with us, and Greg was the head coach of the U.S. ski team for Paralympics for cross-country

and biathlons for four years, and then he worked an additional four years with contract coaching.

So we're really excited to have Greg here to explain

more to us about the Paralympics and what that's all about. Greg grew up in Steamboat, Colorado,

grew up skiing, doing Alpine racing. When he got to college, he raced for a couple of different

colleges, Alpine, but he found his true love when he tried

cross-country racing. Greg went to Durango, to Fort Lewis. He went to Western Washington and to

Montana State in Bozeman, and now he lives back in Steamboat with his three kids. Greg, welcome

very much to the program.

Well, thanks for having me on.

Greg, I gave a brief sketch of who you are, but will you tell us more about yourself and a little bit of your history working in the Paralympics?

Yeah, absolutely. So growing up in Seymouth Springs, it's called Ski Town USA, and it's this little hamlet at the side of the mountains. We've got skiing and kayaking and mountain biking and running and swimming in the hot springs

and all kinds of fun stuff. So I just kind of got hooked and became an alpine ski racer

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