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So, I apologize. I have been severely MIA all winter long on my blog. The winter season was crazy busy and FULL of emotional ups and downs, which most athletes lives are. However, during all of this instead of reaching out, I seemed to run away from my blog and communicating with others. BUT, I’m back. And I come equipped with multiple photo blog throwbacks from the season. Starting with World Championships in Whistler!!     A BIG thanks to the staff at the Whistler Sliding Center who made some beautiful ice for us to race on! They had icedRead more

November 1st is the date everyone! Im cutting it all off! Every little girl remembers learning to do her hair. Learning how to put it in ponytails, pigtails, buns. Learning how to braid and french braid your hair. Braiding your friends hair. Getting gum stuck IN your hair! Sitting while your mom gets knots and leaves OUT of your hair! They remember the first time your mom curls it for you. The first time it gets all done up before a night out and you feel like a princess. You feel beautiful. I want to be able to provide thoseRead more

August was a month of being outside. The first two weeks of August were my two week break from training and I was feeling like I needed to be by the water, so that’s exactly where I spent my break! First stop Victoria to dip our toes in the chilly water! A quick jaunt on a ferry boat, across a border, and VOILA…the famous Jeff Christie and I have arrived in Seattle! Seattle was a very cool city. Did you know it has an entire city of streets built below ground!? Very cool. After spending a morning in the cool,Read more

So as you saw I’m at the gym a lot! But what do athletes get up to when we aren’t at the gym? Besides eat and sleep of course! Check out what I’ve been up to! During my off-season I always try to chip away at that looming amount of university courses! So this year in between rigorous training sessions, I sat in a classroom at the U of C and learned all about economics. The course was very interesting and I enjoyed it, however, I don’t know how much my classmates enjoyed having me there. I was always theRead more

I haven’t blogged much this summer! So I thought I would take you on a trip into what I fill all of my upblogged days with. Lets take a trip into MY office for the day. 7am the alarm clock goes off. I think most of you would agree that waking up to an alarm is quite possibly the worst feeling. In the winter it can be difficult to get up because I am feeling mentally exhausted. However, summer mornings pose new challenges. More often than not, my body is literally too sore and exhausted to move! I would quoteRead more

We started off the weekend with thoughts of how cute we would look in our hippie inspired outfits and how fun it would be to camp with the masses, really get the full experience, and listen to fabulous music all day long. I learned quite a few things this trip… It started off positive with us getting into our car camping spot and setting up out tent. It was about midnight, pitch black and so we were pretty proud that we were able to get the tent up in one try! I should mention now that we’ve never camped beforeRead more

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” This season was filled with higher highs and lower lows than I have every experienced before in my career. I feel that every one of those moments taught me a valuable lesson that is paving the road to success and shaping who I am as an athlete and as a person. Heading into this season I set out a few goals for myself. This season my hard work paid off and I achieved results that many thought were improbable and even impossible. IRead more

My 2011-2012 Season has come to a close. We finished the year with a world cup in Sigulda, Latvia followed by a jaunt over to Paramonovo, Russia. To provide some background information, Sigulda is a track with a very difficult start corner. A corner that has the power to bring out anxiety and tears in many athletes (including myself) when it cannot be conquered on race day. However, it turns out that moving the start heights down during the 2010 Olympic Games in Whistler has finally given off a glimmer of a silver lining that no one thought would emerge.Read more

The weekend of January 20th was filled with ups and downs as I rode an emotional roller-coaster. We arrived in Winterberg, Germany to some much needed beautiful blue skies and sunshine. However, we had only two days to soak up as much Vitamin D as we possibly could before the typical WINTERberg weather set it. Driving rain mixed with a snowy blizzard was what welcomed race weekend. Friday morning I raced in the Nation’s cup. Nation’s cup is a one-run qualifying race for the World Cup. You race against 30 plus girls and only the top 14 qualify for theRead more

A crash is always tough to get out of your head, even harder when it occurs in a race. Going into the next race you want so badly to prove yourself again. Heading into this race my mind was full of thoughts, rather than the quiet I like most. So I reminded myself of my own wise words from Calgary. After I had watched the men’s race with some young first energy kids I had said… “Thank you to them for reminding me how lucky I am to be able to compete in something I love, and how much funRead more