Canadian Cross Country Skier
These past two weeks weren’t technically my first World Cup races, but they were the first ones where I really felt I could compete, not just participate. Over the past two weekends I races two individual and two team World Cup races, a mixed bag of highs and lows, feeling fast and slow. Although I …
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I want to stay in Europe forever... We are now two weeks into our month long race tour here in Europe. So far we have been in Obertilliach, Austria, Kanjska Gora, Slovenia and now we are in my favourite spot, Toblach, Italy for a few days of training before we head back to Slovenia for …
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 With the months of grueling training already just a distant memory, the race season is now upon us. At the start of every season the first few weekends of racing can be a crazy yoyo. My year started off well with a 3rd place at the U.S. Super Tour in West Yellowstone Montana. I was …
The anticipation of winter’s arrival is high. I just finished my last camp of the training season in Park City, Utah. Now the team is in an intensity block, sprinting around the roller ski track and bounding up hills, hoping that soon we will be able to be racing around on snow. Two intensity blocks straddled …
It seems like this summer has just flown by, the second nationwide camp of the summer is already coming to a close. After the Canmore National Camp in June, that brought together the training centres from across Canada, these past two weeks have been spent solely focused on us ladies. The Quebec camp has been …
It is hard to believe that it has already been 3 years since I was standing in front of my high school grad class speaking about our futures and what they might hold. A young adult excited to leave home and anxious to join a new team of amazing ski racers. When I joined the …
As I fly over the Spanish countryside on a flight bound for Lisboa there is not a single speck of snow in sight. Seeking out warmth and sun, a strange concept for someone who is searching for snow most months of the year. Traveling to a sunny destination is a signal that the race season …
I have the morning off today after a weekend of racing and a volume training block. As I sit here looking out the window of our hotel in Vietalva Latvia, sun shinning in on me, a rare occurrence in the normally cloudy country of Latvia. I finally have the chance to reflect on the past …
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You know the saying, saving the best for last, well that is exactly what happened for me this past year. My last race of 2014 was a 15km skate individual. This was the first time I had raced a 15k and it went as well as I could have hoped. I not only won the …
Group photo full of smiles as everyone is excited to go out skiing!!! My past month has been full of fun events, highlights being the Fast and Female Power hour in Whitehorse in conjunction with my trip home and starting the race season with the two Frozen Thunder events!The Frozen Thunder sprints mark the unveiling of …
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Dahria Beatty 