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While in Russia, his day job simply became his night job.

Or his overnight job.

“It’s no different than being in your office — you’re doing the same work. It’s just that most of your work is being done in the middle of the night because of the time change,” Treliving said Monday, shortly after arriving back in the mountain time zone. “It was a nine-hour time change, so you’re basically half a day ahead. I was doing a lot of work at 2 or 3 a.m. over there, where it’s the middle of the day over here. That was really the only difference. You’re doing all the same work, it’s just that you’re doing it at odd hours.

“But getting out of town, it removes you a little bit, too,” he continued. “There are a lot of people that are interested in the (coaching) position, and it allowed me in some ways to get to a quiet place to do some real thinking and some real planning. You have some time to get deep in your thoughts.

“So that was unique and beneficial, but I would be lying if I said the body-clock after the first week wasn’t a bit upside-down. Everybody would be going to bed, and you’re like, ‘Ok, now it’s time to get going on my day job.’ ”

So how goes that coaching search?

“We’ve talked about a few guys. We’ll speak with a few more. It’s progressing,” Treliving said. “I’ve got a pretty good handle on the people that are out there and I feel real comfortable with the profile we’ve built, in terms of the type of person that we’re looking for.

“And a lot of it isn’t necessarily the direct interviewing and all that stuff. It’s doing the homework. You can sit with a person and they can tell you all about themselves, but you can sometimes learn more doing homework (through) people they’ve been with, been around, good and bad experiences that they’ve had, people along the way that have had come in contact with them, and just getting different perspectives.