4 days until we are on snow10 days until the first race 46 days until the official race season begins-3 days since the final dry land camp of the yearFor the past two weeks the Alberta World Cup Academy, along with the World Cup Team and a few CNEPH training centre athletes, have been in Park …
Glacier skiing and other summery things
It's crazy to think that over two months have passed since I last updated my blog. Lots has happened since then, even if I did not do a very good job of documenting those events in photos.This past week the Academy ladies were up on the Haig Glacier for the first of two summer skiing …
Stepping into the big leagues
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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