Full Speed Ahead
New personalized training book “Have you heard the word on the street? I’m a certified cupist,” Leah, my athletic therapist says as I start to get onto her massage table. “Oh?” I say, entirely clueless. I watch as she pulls out a box containing small plastic cups, a rubber hose type deal, and […]
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 […]
Success From Within
Remember the excitement you felt as a young child, those few nights before Santa, the Tooth Fairy or that elusive Easter Bunny was scheduled to pay your home a visit? Well, there are a good number of parallels between awaiting those present barring holiday-mascots and the electric energy I’m feeling just three sleeps out from […]
My Watch Tower
“Never doubt your program,” he said, once I had finally finished my rant. He is right. But, I too was right. I was right to say what I needed to say. After all, I have never done well holding in my fears and insecurities through all this …. Then again, no one claimed the life of a transitioned […]