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Whistler, BC, Canada
Cliché is defined as "a trite, or stereotyped expression" they have become thus because they never fail. Belief is the key to success... born in waterloo, i moved to the small village of Eden Mills just outside of guelph for the beggining of the 21st century. i started cross country skiing roughly at the age of 2 or 3 and ever since it has been part of my life one way or another. at the age of 7 i entered my first competition and at that time it was always just for the fun. at the age of 10 imoved to france for a year with my sister where we both took part in school and completed my first year without any skiing, which it turns out might have cost me a bit of time when i decided to get more serious into it when i came back, because i was at the back of the pack in every race when i had come back from france. i was however, tenatious in the years after that big and life changing experience. i kept to it, and slowly, but steadly climbed up the field of skiers, which brings me to where i am now.

September 20, 2009

back at it... full throttle

So, my rest period has now finished, I am not sure what to think of it. It seems I have some serious lack of judgement and focus when I am not training full time. In the past I have always had lots to do during my time off, (school, work). But this time, only working part time and being in whistler in september when it is really slow economically here, I had not much to do. So that is why I thought I'd keep things fresh with my trip to Vancouver. Well that was a huge highlight, but training wise I felt like I was not focused at all. A very weird feeling after being so dialed into my training all summer. I guess its ok, though it did lead to some hairy situations for me. I think it started with my fall at the end of my last big workout, than I had a moment at the gym where a little lack of thinking made me try too heavy of a squat (nothing happened, but dropping the bar and waking everyone up in the gym with a very loud clang) than the next day, I was doing a 'recovery' run and slipped again on some wet roots. In the past I have prided myself with being agile and sure footed, and all summer I didn't have any problems with this. So my conclusion is that I was losing my focus not training many hours. The thing that saved me from doing any further damage I think is that it was only 2 weeks. I am back in a biggish week. Training doubles some days (two sessions a day), and I feel like I have my focus back with two time trials in two days under my belt.
Now onto the time trials...
I wasn't sure what to expect with these. My first one was a 2 km uphill double pole time trial and I hadn't done that since late june. The second one was skate, up the same hill. Coming off two weeks of easy training I wasn't expecting huge improvements since I'd be a little flat. The double pole was going better since my overall fitness has come a long way since june, I had decided that. It did prove to be better, 2 MINUTES BETTER! I was pretty happy, especially with coming off some down time. I was pumped. Than this morning was the skate version of the TT. After yesterday, doing that well and not feeling very 'poppy' in my technique, I thought that today was going to be good! In my warm up I felt really solid, so I thought I'd try and PB, well I got ahead of myself. The last one I did was just before our last trip to Canmore, and I was ON then. I ended up being 13 sec. slower this time. Feeling as though I had really given it my all, I was a little disappointed. Lee was quick to point out the differences with last time, mainly coming off a slow week and that I have always performed better in the summer while on the go. So good TTs behind we set off tomorrow to tackle Duffy Lake Rd. The plan is to Bike to the bottom than throw the rollerskis on and classic up. I am very exited for this, it is one of my favorite things to do on rollerskis and bikes.... go uphill.
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