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,…

Indy Trip and Quebec Camp

The cabin fever is getting pretty real here in Quebec. We’re now into the third day of the camp, and as many without WiFi. As the wise Joni Mitchell once sang: “you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” And without WiFi, we have all come to realize how silly-attached we are it to.…

NDC Roster: Sadie, Sam, Scott

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…

NDC Roster: Bob, Dave, Evan

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)…

Silver Star is still almost perfect

The past week of training here in Silver Star has been amazing. Other than it being absolutely frigid last weekend and a bit of a snowstorm for the races this weekend, we’ve been blessed with excellent weather. Although it was cold, it wasn’t on the same level as the deep freeze Thunder Bay went through…

Frozen Thunder 2

I spent two more weeks in Canmore after my last update, which brought the total camp length up to 18 days, by far the longest of the season. Over the course of the camp I skied 478km which, on a 2km loop, is a lot of laps. It wasn’t until the last few days that…

Boot Camp

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…

24hr Relay

The Lappe 24hr Relay was a very long, tiresome ordeal. Basically, Andy and I set a new 24hr Mixed Pairs record, skiing 455km in just under 24hrs, breaking the previous record which was held by our coach Timo and his wife Becky for 10years. Together we averaged lap times of 16:35 on the 5.27km course (which we…