Congratulations on making it to the final instalment of the four part NDC Roster series. It’s been a bit of a haul for me, some of the profiles seemed a bit stale and weren’t quite as personable as last year… but overall I think I have accomplished my goal of introducing the team and providing…
Welcome back to Part 3 of the 2015 edition of the NDC Roster series. I think I’m starting to run out of steam for these, I haven’t built up enough blogging base to be turning out so many posts in so early in the season. Hopefully I don’t over-blog… Part 1) NDC Roster: Alannah, Andy,…
Welcome back to Part 2 of the 2015 edition of the NDC Roster biography series. If you missed the first post, or need a refresher on the “A team”, you can check out the post through the link below. Part 1) NDC Roster: Alannah, Andy, Angus Part 2) NDC Roster: Bob, Dave, Evan Part 3)…
This year, NDC Thunder Bay is a fourteen athlete, two coach, one equipment/wax guy, and one admin operation. As part of my mission to deliver the stories of my ski career, I have taken on writing short biographies for each of my teammates to create a bigger picture of my life through the people I interact…
The clock just rolled over to 12:37pm as I started this blog post. That means I have 2hours 38minutes before I have to turn in my technology and head out for my afternoon workout. 3:15pm (or before afternoon session starts) is our technology curfew for the duration of the training camp. Everyone has to bring…
This morning our fridge calendar caught my eye (photo) Apparently I’m not the only one who isn’t ready to be inside 5 months to the start of the race season… So as summer flies by, I presently find myself struggling through a tough week of training. It’s a rest focussed week, in case you were wondering.…
The team wrapped up our annual “Boot Camp” last week. New team members, Julian and Sam, came up for the week of testing but returned home afterwards to finish their final high school semester, while Dave moved and stayed up, as he graduated last year. It was a busy week; we started things off with an…
You may remember, back in November, I wrote a post about a team “adventure ski”. If you missed it I recommend checking it out here: NDC Adventure Ski, and if you’ve already read it, feel free to go back to relive all the hilarity, and wallow in nostalgia – actually I think that’s reserved for me, the…
Well, just getting myself reacquainted with my dual skier-student life here in Thunder Bay, which has proven to be more trying than I anticipated…Last week I raced in Canmore, Alberta at the World Junior, U23, and Olympic trials. Canmore is a hostile environment. It’s at altitude, it’s dry, it’s cold, it smells like chemicals along…
adventure ski (/ədˈvɛntʃə skiː/) : an excursion done on cross country skis, usually without a route or destination in mind; an epic NDC outing that typically involves getting lost or losing people. – Yesterday evening I was greeted with a team text informing me that our roller ski intensity was being scrapped and that we were…
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