A Frame in Focus
In my recent travels, between boarding flights and infinite cups of coffee I wandered through a bookstore. Choosing books by their cover (yes, really) I happened to open up one, in which this sentence suddenly jumped out at me, “Go where you don’t want to go. Get in luck’s path.” I stood there motionless. Some […]
Winterberg for the Win
Eat. Slide. Eat. Workout. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. When you are on this kind of schedule, your experience of time and space become intensified, amplified and distorted. It may sound obvious, but I can confirm that travel at the speed of Skeleton is anything but conventional. The final stop on the 2011/12 EuropaCup circuit was Winterberg […]
From Start to Ziel
Ziel Curve Is it possible that a snow-cloud large enough to cover both: Altenberg, Germany (World Cup) and Igls, Austria (Europa Cup) passed through the weather system this weekend? Albeit, unlikely – I swear that was the case. * * * My Europa Cup debut has been everything I had hoped it would be, and […]
Here, Hold This …
The colours of fall are decorating the Calgary skyline and with this change of scenery, winter athletes are becoming all too aware that the off-season is quickly morphing into the race-season. If everything goes according to plan, we will put our sleds on the ice in less than a week from today. I do the […]