Being the end of an Olympic season, as always, things take a little bit longer to get started up again in the spring teams are finalized, money is reallocated and of course everyone just wants a bit of time to take a quick breather before refocusing for the next 4 years.My spring was full of …
My last nationals as a junior and my best yet!
From Whistler BC last year to Corner Brook Newfoundland this year, the 2014 Ski Nationals literally took us from coast to coast. We were on the rock for 13 days and experienced everything from -20 winter weather to 100km/hr winds to +6 degrees and rain to beautiful sunshine. I was amazed by how quickly the weather …
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La Lettonie et L’Estonie- Castles, Rain and Ski Racing
For the past two weeks I have been traveling around the Baltic countries racing at the Latvian National Championships and on the Scandinavian Cup circuit. I did 5 races in 9 days in three different locations. It was quite a busy race schedule with lots of travel and little time to adjust to the new …
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15th and 20th at World Junior Championships
Monday was the final day of the World Junior Championships, we finished off the week with the team relay which is always lots of fun.Overall it was a great week of racing in the rain which made for tricky skiing conditions. Skiing in completely saturated snow was something new to me and proved very difficult …
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Seefeld and Toblach-Dobbiaco training camp
We have been in Europe for just under a week and a half now and arrived at the race venue in Val di Fiemme Italy yesterday. My first race of the World Junior Championships is tomorrow and it is a 1.2k Skate sprint.For our pre-championships training camp we spent 5 days in Seefeld Austria and …
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Representing Canada once again!
This past weekend were the World Junior/ U23 and Olympic trials here in Canmore. I was competing in the Junior Female category and found out yesterday afternoon that I have earned a spot on the 2014 Canadian World Junior Championships Team! The team leaves for Italy this coming Thursday and I am so excited to …
NST camp and Frozen Thunder Training
It is now week three on snow and the skiing is great!!Whitehorse based National Talent Squad member Annah Hanthorn (second from left) joined the Academy for a week of skiing! The first week Frozen Thunder opened for skiing, I had the opportunity to be part of the Canadian National Team Women's Camp here in Canmore. …
The snow has arrived, skiing on Frozen Thunder
First Ski!!!I have been putting a lot of hour and time on the roller skis including a 5 day camp in New Denver BC where we took advantage of the mountain pass roads to work on our technique while climbing, did some great legs only arms only intensity climbing and well of course ski walked …
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Montana for a great climbing focused training camp
Climbing up the Going to the Sun RoadMy last 10 days have been spent in the recreation capital of Montana for a great climbing focused training camp. Whitefish is the perfect end of summer training camp location with its warm temperatures, great lakes, Big Mountain ski hill as well as its array of flatter farm …
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Patience has never been one of my strong suits
Post workout recoveryPatience has never been one of my strong suits except when it comes to being stubborn, and that doesn’t help my case. My last 7 months have been a bit of a roller coaster, forcing me to learn to be patient with my body and training.After a rough February and March with consecutive …
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