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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 16, 2009

what do i do when i have extra time and energy due to small training hours.

Alright, one week of easy training past, and for the beginning of that week I didn't do much. I mainly focused on recovering from my rediculous fall runing the sunday before (nice bump on my tibia bone), and worked a bit. Work is slow in september. Whistler being a resort town relying solly on tourists to keep the economy rolling makes the non tourist seasons very slow, therefore work is virtually non existent. This makes life tough for the full time athlete relying on a retail store to keep some food on the table. So instead of wasting time pondering this and wearing out the old brain with these thoughts, I decided to head to Vancouver. This was a time to shake things up a bit. It was not a very long stay (I feel like I could live there) but it deffinitly took my mind off the same old same old. It is a very effictive place to go to achieve this. I ended up staying at my super awesome friend Linnaea's house, which is also super awesome. Quite the place in the city, located close to everything important. The beach, Sushi, downtown, Granville Island, the list goes on. You can't go wrong living there thats for sure!when I got there Linnaea found a single speed for me to use to get around the city and have fun...fun underlined the whole stay. I met some really cool roady friends of hers (they ALL ride road bikes it seems...) like a whole underground culture with track races, bike polo, sprints, you name it. What they come up with is incredible. They also deserve a ton of credit for (most of them) riding all of this on fixis (no free wheel on their bikes, a bit like little kids bikes, without the pedal break). nothing we did was not fun, although the sunday night was bythe highlight. It was filled with some really random fun bike rides, climbing adventures on Ganville Island, and really pleasant laughs.
... and ended no earlier than 2:30 am. That goes to show you how much energy I have when I train little amounts. I am already halfway done my second eas
y week and get to finish it off with two time trials up Kadenwood
, double pole on saturda
y and sk
ate on sunday. This is a 2km uphill time trial which in the past has been death. it is steep, it is hard, and we
make it fast. Finally after that we head into the the first intensity block.
I will tell ou guys all about my first fun week of hammering when i
t comes.
cheers,
C
-photo credit of Linaea Kershaw
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