Well, the new team had been chosen and the season is under way. We are currently at our first training camp in Silver Star BC. Out of the 20 athletes on this year’s team, 15 made the trip to Silver Star for a 9 day on snow camp.
The skiing has been absolutely amazing with fresh snow almost every day and some beautiful sunny days. Yesterday for example we went for a 2hr ski in the morning and then went down into Vernon, the town at the bottom of the mountain, 20min away. It is full on summer in Vernon. We had ice cream and lounged in the sun at one of the gorgeous parks in the area. It was our first taste of summer this year and everyone was pumped.
After this camp I head home to good old Pakenham for 2 weeks of real summer—none of this mountain summer snow-until-June stuff. I miss the heat and the humidity. I am looking forward to green grass, the hammock, some time with my family and friends and of course a good solid game of euchre.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Nationals Crash!
Some readers were disappointed that I didn't do any stick drawing of my crash during the sprints at nationals, but I can do one better. One of our famous wax techs, Tony Stephen, captured the entire event. Here are Tony's pictures:
I am the second person in the photo...Still on my feet.
Turning looks good...
Woman down! Check out the snow flying!
I got a little tangled in the snow fence.
Trying to shake it off and get back on my feet. I was a little confused at this point. It all happened so fast!
Okay, back on my feet.
Back in the race.
I am the second person in the photo...Still on my feet.
Turning looks good...
Woman down! Check out the snow flying!
I got a little tangled in the snow fence.
Trying to shake it off and get back on my feet. I was a little confused at this point. It all happened so fast!
Okay, back on my feet.
Back in the race.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
End of Season/ Start of Season
Yeah, I know… What is the point of having a blog if you aren’t going to update it? A good question, but it’s a new season with new goals and one of them is to keep my blog up to date.
The final races of last season saw quite an improvement in my skiing and my results. I really can say that not making World U23 Championships was truly a blessing in disguise. Not going to Europe made me realize that I could no longer let any of the little things in my training and technique slide. It was time to break everything down and work long and hard on my weak areas.
All that hard work began to pay off when I won the sprint at Western Canadian Championships and came 3rd in both distance races. That was the extra little boost in confidence that I needed going into Canadian National Championships in Duntroon, Ontario.
We saw every different kind of weather imaginable in Duntroon throughout the week, but that didn’t stop the Academy from performing at the highest standards. Everybody on the team came out strong and lucky I was one of them. I had some of my best distance races even in the skating events which is by far my weaker technique. Then, on sprint day, I qualified first. To be honest I have never qualified first in a NorAm sprint event before. That was a pretty big high for me. At the end of the sprint day I was 5th because of a fall in the A final (3rd Canadian). I got to bring home my first senior nationals medal and it is hanging here in my room as I write this. (To read more about nationals or check out some pictures follow this link http://www.albertaworldcup.com/main.php?p=44&s=4 to the Academy web page)
Now the new season is about to start and I am pumped! The new AWCA team will be chosen in the next week and I am excited to meet the new team. I have some big goals this year and I am ready to start tackling them.
I’ll let you know about the new team as soon as I have heard!
~Kate
The final races of last season saw quite an improvement in my skiing and my results. I really can say that not making World U23 Championships was truly a blessing in disguise. Not going to Europe made me realize that I could no longer let any of the little things in my training and technique slide. It was time to break everything down and work long and hard on my weak areas.
All that hard work began to pay off when I won the sprint at Western Canadian Championships and came 3rd in both distance races. That was the extra little boost in confidence that I needed going into Canadian National Championships in Duntroon, Ontario.
We saw every different kind of weather imaginable in Duntroon throughout the week, but that didn’t stop the Academy from performing at the highest standards. Everybody on the team came out strong and lucky I was one of them. I had some of my best distance races even in the skating events which is by far my weaker technique. Then, on sprint day, I qualified first. To be honest I have never qualified first in a NorAm sprint event before. That was a pretty big high for me. At the end of the sprint day I was 5th because of a fall in the A final (3rd Canadian). I got to bring home my first senior nationals medal and it is hanging here in my room as I write this. (To read more about nationals or check out some pictures follow this link http://www.albertaworldcup.com/main.php?p=44&s=4 to the Academy web page)
Now the new season is about to start and I am pumped! The new AWCA team will be chosen in the next week and I am excited to meet the new team. I have some big goals this year and I am ready to start tackling them.
I’ll let you know about the new team as soon as I have heard!
~Kate
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