Hestra Gloves

So every season about this time I go through my list of contacts and the past emails that I may have sent out in a dizzying haste the previous spring. I comb them for that potentially forgotten email that, while oh so important, some how slipped between the cracks of the shifting seasons. And every year I find at least one email that I forgot to follow up with or respond. This year that email came in the form of message from the team manager for Hestra, Melanie. She had written back to me in the Spring, that I would need to send her my info in a “month or so”- those words, by the way, are a kiss of death for some one who is afflicted with the “in the moment” syndrom, such as myself.- Anyway, I was doing my annual comb a couple of weeks ago when all of a sudden, my ears started to ring, my face turned bright red and my heart started to race. Oh Sh*&$ did I miss my opportunity to get hooked up with the only brand of gloves I will ever put on my hands?! There, staring me in the face was Melanie’s email and I had totally forgotten to get back to her. It was now three or four months down the road. So, with a heavy, yet tirelessly optimistic, heart I wrote back to her.

I have always had an innate understanding of the phrase “timing is everything” and in this case it couldn’t have been more true. I got a response that afternoon saying that she was going to pick the team by the end of the week and could I get all my info in before then. Of course I could! So with the heist of a college student finishing the final pages of a term paper minutes before it’s due, I typed, cut, pasted, and linked my way through the forms. I sent it in that evening and waited.

During that waiting period, which happens when you approach any company about representing them, I tend to get hyper obsessive, checking my email just about every time I pass my computer. Maybe it’s that I am still a bit of a rookie who is way over zealous about anything that has to do with skiing, let alone the potential of getting to represent companies that I have yearned to be a part of since I can remember.

At any rate, about three weeks and a couple false alarms later, I got the Hesta team list and sure enough, the last name on the last team listed (the local team) was yours truly. So game on Hestra!

Tags: Hestra, Ski gloves, WInter Gloves