Coming up on one month post Tour de Ski I am finally feeling fully recovered from this grueling 7-day stage event. By the time I made it to the top of Alpe Cermis on the final stage of the Tour, I was feeling proud of myself for just finishing, which is not a feeling you …
End of Camp Season, Bring On Race Season
Ski season? Almost. That starts next week when Frozen Thunder gets rolled out at the Canmore Nordic Center. For the last few months we have been focused on dry-land training, roller skiing, running and cycling. Our second National Ski Team altitude camp has just wrapped up which means I'm now taking a few days of …
A Busy Season Wrap Up
March 2022- Mixed gender racing finally made its debut at the World Cup level, we had the return of Canadian Ski Nationals after two years of cancelations, and as this Olympic quadrennial came to a close there were many tearful goodbyes to longtime teammates and coaches who are moving onto new adventures. Many people expect …
Beijing Bound
T-2 days until the team departs and the excitement is starting to feel real! Our 2-week Olympic prep camp is coming to an end here at Sovereign Lake and Silver Star. On January 26th we board our charter in Vancouver and I will be on my way to my second Olympics. This time to China. …
Fall Altitude Camp
Our second National Team camp of the year wrapped up in Mammoth Lakes, California last week. Now I am back in Canmore and back on snow as Frozen Thunder has just begun for another season at the Canmore Nordic Center. The main point of our fall camp in California was for access to high altitude …
Exhale
We are already a full month into the training season and for the most part May training has gone super well. Baseline testing was as good or even better than expected, we got in a couple weeks on snow, and I have a great team around me this season with some young new Alberta World …
Grounded: Maximizing Summer Training in the Absence of Team Camps & Navigating my way Home for Family Time.
This summer will definitely be one for the memory books. All team training camps were cancelled, flying on planes has gone from a monthly occurrence for me to almost zero, and interprovincial/territorial travel has become a maze of hoops and hurdles. Despite the added complications, summer 2020 has been great from a training standpoint. I …
The Summer Season
In early July, after the National Team training camp in Canmore, I went home to Whitehorse to rest and recharge before the next training block skiing on the Haig glacier and an intensity focused period back in Canmore. After an unusually cold spring in Canmore, it was great to head north for some heat and …
Slowing Down to Speed Up
Another whirlwind winter in the books, 9 countries, 31 races and 15 flights later, I was ready for some rest. During April, I was able to spending some quality time at home in Whitehorse as well as take a spring road trip down the Washington and Oregon coast. As May approached and it was time …
Dresden City Sprint, Tour de Ski and Pre-Christmas NorAm’s
This weekend was my first time back racing in Germany since my international racing career began at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Hinterzarten, Germany. My memories of racing in Germany and that feeling I had, the thrill of representing your country and giving your all, still motivates me to work hard to this day. …
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