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,…
I’m going to do my shout-outs at the start of this post, because I have a niggling suspicion that no one actually sees them when they’re at the end… First of all, big ups to Team Hardwood for finishing 3rd in the club aggregate! With less than 20 racers, we rounded up 2122 points and…
Yesterday was another (beauty) training day for cross country skiing. We went up to the nordic centre midmorning to test skis and re-inspect the courses. The final day of competition was today (Saturday) and was the relay event! The relay consisted of 4×3.75k legs, the first two in classic technique and the second two in…
After writing my last post yesterday morning I had a few hours to work through some school, get pumped about Olsson winning the 15k, and video chat Andy who has been racing in Europe for the past couple weeks. He, along with several National Development Team and top NorAm skiers have been competing in Scandinavian Cup races…
Well, as things would have it, I broke my pledge to blog daily on what was will probably be the most exciting day of the Games (for me). Rather than writing this post yesterday I tried to mellow myself out by doing schoolwork. But I’m sure there are very few people interested in hearing me…
After writing my post yesterday I spent another few hours in the library working on a lab for my Measurement, Instrumentation, and Controls class. The class is about as boring as the name suggests, and the lab reports are very hefty. I’d pin them down as at least 20hrs of writing, once you’ve figured out…
Wow power blog post day! We arrived at our hotel in Prince George this morning after a trying 24hour travel day. Everyone was pretty exhausted by the time we finally got here, but also in good spirits and excited for the week ahead! Athletes are all staying in hotels in downtown Prince George. Our hotel…
The Canada Winter Games have arrived! Well, they actually started last week… but cross country skiing competitions take place in the second week of the Games – which we head out for tomorrow. The CWG only take place every four years, and is restricted to Under23 athletes for cross country skiing, so this is my…
I was a little nervous about coming back to racing. February 1st was my 7 week-iversary of breaking my leg. That’s only a month and a half. I only started walking properly 3 weeks ago, at which time I also started skiing. At first my skiing was restricted to double poling, which around Lappe is not…
Well, the 3-week marker from my leg break has passed (as of Sunday). I have several discarded, half-written blog posts from the past few weeks in the queue and have only just found the resolve to finish one. Since I returned home to Southern Ontario my recovery has progressed in a rather stop-and-go manner. It…
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