Sans Concussion

So, instead of attempting (once again) to run in below zero weather, I spent the (long) weekend on the ski slopes of Breckenridge Colorado instead.
There are several reasons that this is a notable occurance:
First and foremost, as the title of this post would indicate, I did not give myself a concussion (please note super-lame looking helmet in above photo). I guess that NOT giving oneself a concussion shouldn't be something noteable, but when you add snowboarding and me into the mix, it pretty much is. Snowboarding is actually the cause of my one and only (knock HARD on wood) sports injury to date (yes, a concussion). In other words, as much as I fear being doored riding the city streets, or getting a stress fracture somewhere, the only true sports injury that I've ever had is from snowboarding.
That leads to the second reason that this snowboarding trip is notable:
Brian totally (admittedly by him) would not have gone snowboarding before Ironman training last year. He would have been too worried to get injured before he even began. He also wouldn't have spent one of the last weekends before training began drinking beer at altitude. Maybe I'm just cooler than he is (which may go without saying)...Perhaps I am not taking this seriously enough (I would have been seriously pissed off had I actually injured myself)...or maybe I'm just a hell of a lot more badass.
I figure I've got about six months to assume the latter before I need to really start worrying about beating a 12:36 for real.