The Bigger Picture
This post was originally featured on the Whistler Sliding Centre blog in a two-part series – with the forward written by Meghan Kines of Whistler Sport Legacies. Sometimes, things just click. For whatever reason, the pieces fall into place, the puzzle comes together, and the results are brilliant. This seems to be the case with […]
Stay Tuned
As the sun begins to shine with a little more ‘oomph’, Skeleton/Bob tracks morph into their (literal) concrete summer identities – and sliders around the world return to a life that is the yin to their yang. Personally, I wrapped up my season with a few more runs in Calgary – at Canada Olympic Park […]
Where the Lines Overlap
New York, Utah, British Columbia, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, and Russia. 14+ weeks, 10 races, 7 countries, 2 team events and 2 medals : my Rookie World Cup season in the bank. It has been tough to grab a firm hold on the rational perspective required to move towards this Olympic goal with my heart […]
Connect The Dots
Tossing and turning, I catalogue the thoughts in my rolodex-style psyche; closing my eyes, I wait to exhale. There’s a real shift in focus as Russia invites the world to their backyard to challenge for Olympic Gold. Less than a year before what has already transformed from, as I’ve been told, what was literally empty […]
Top of The World
Draped in crisp, white satin sheets – larger than life mountain ranges surrounded our winding route to Switzerland. Through Germany and then Austria – every crevasse and peak glimmered with crystal clarity in the picturesque afternoon sunshine. I don’t think I could have asked for a better location to host my very first World Championships. And […]
Sweet Surrender
Photo credit: Joy Bryant I’d be lying if I said that this particular entry didn’t cause me a small amount of pause. The truth is, I wasn’t really looking forward to writing yet another post where I get to tell you how much this week forced me to learn and how the ups and downs […]
Reign Over Me
A very small but dark area of space exists in my psyche – right between my desire to perform at my highest level imaginable and my ability to execute that performance on-demand. It is my belief, that all elite level athletes possess this dark area. Much like a room with no light, it can be […]
Water Works
The rain falls heavy into a rushing creek outside our hotel window in another foreign country – and for a moment I can hear nothing else…. It’s almost surreal, the life I find myself leading; maybe because it has all happened in such a relatively short amount of time … but, here I am – […]
Learning How to Fall
When I first moved to Calgary, Alberta in July 2009 I found myself constantly looking up. Looking up at the skyscrapers. Looking up at the ski jump tower . Looking up at the mountains. It was as if I was looking at everything for the very first time. Shiny and brand new – life was […]
A Sharp Mental Edge
Alex Karras, professional athlete and actor has been quoted to have once said, “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” And after having completed the first 6 weeks of my 2012/13 dry land training, I have to agree. This is not to say that my muscles aren’t growing, and that I can’t […]