Whirlwind trip ends with spot for Worlds

After a whirlwind trip to Solider Hollow, Utah, last week, I nabbed myself a spot on Team Canada for the Under 23 World Championships, at the same venue, at the end of January. The whole trip was a bit of a “by the seat of my pants” affair – flying into Salt Lake City late Friday night,…

Writing a story

6th, 2nd and 9th, 10th and 7th. They’re not results for the highlight reel, but they’re all part of the story. I’ve turned a lot of pages and worked through a couple new chapters of my story this year. I’d pen my races in Rossland earlier this month as the start of Chapter 9 in the story…

Finding Fitness and Earning It

Now three weeks back in Thunder Bay and I’m starting to feel a bit more like a skier than just an exercise junkie. Over the summer I managed to amass some ridiculous amount of fitness, but my body was somehow left behind – I couldn’t find function for the fitness with ski-specific workouts. To remedy this,…

Sustainability

Summer is creeping to a close – as is my time at home, time with a job, time before school starts, and time to make decisions about the upcoming ski season. To alleviate the concerns and doubts that people have expressed about my future as a skier: I promise that I’ll be on the start line this winter. This…

Changes

After returning from my trip to Norway, I dove (more like belly-flopped, really) right into a full-time summer job at a bike shop in Barrie. I like cycling as a sport and activity, so being involved in a bike-centric atmosphere and learning about bikes has been awesome – albeit a slow, deliberate process (there’s a lot going on).…

Crisped

Before now, I’ve never had to deal with compelling evidence that I’m not good enough. Compelling evidence being the numbers on the results sheet at the end of the day. I know a lot of people don’t like to talk about the numbers, because racing is about a lot more than digits and decimals… but at the end of the day, you’re not going to get picked for the National team, or World Championships, or the Olympics because you tried hard.

Good, better, best – Sprint Day

Sprint day was solid. It was a real sprint course: two laps of 600m for about two and a half minutes of racing. I’m not so sure I like these true sprint courses. We’ve had three of them this year – at Sovereign Lake, Lappe, and Whitehorse, and I can’t quite figure them out and make…