I'll recap the first half of my season with the following photos:
Until I left for Kazakhstan at the end of January I was racing the Domestic NorAm circuit. I'll recap the first half of my season with the following photos: Going back a little bit to tell you about fall training - After our last training camp in Park City, Utah, for a month I struggled with fatigue and sluggish feelings in training that I just couldn't seem to bounce back from. Every year Canmore hosts the Frozen Thunder Classic, a couple of races held on the ribbon of artificial snow that has been saved over the summer to give us some of the earliest on-snow skiing in North America. These races were held in late October, and I still hadn't made it out of that rut. I opted to only do the sprint, and I struggled through that race. The good news is that I overcame the spell of fatigue just in time for the first real races. Getting healthy, I felt like Indiana Jones sprinting to escape a corridor closing in on itself, and making it out just in the nick of time! I'm grateful for the watchfulness and ongoing training assessments of my coach during this time! The very first races of the season meant to be held in Canmore were cancelled due to really cold temps. We got a lovely dump of snow that weekend, and since we couldn't do any intensity training as to not harm our lungs, we took advantage of the weekend off and went on some extremely fun hors-piste adventure skis through Canmore! Not that I needed it, but this totally reinvigorated my love for skiing! Adventure skiing is my favourite kind of skiing - it brought me back to my roots and my Viking Ski Club days! My top pick of our annual team photo shoot! We had a great team this year once again, I love the RMR energy, attitude and companionship! AND we are really enthusiastic crouchers! Silver Star Classic Sprint - my first Senior NorAm victory! Everything clicked that day and I just felt great. Every heat I learned a little bit from my competitors. Before the finals I realized that on such a windy course with little opportunity for drafting, possibly the best strategy was to go out hard and lead because it would be hard to make passes. When the gun went off, I had only one goal, and that was to go as hard as I could from start to finish. To my surprise, I found myself skiing off the front with a gap on the field after the first climb! I just kept hammering all the way to the line, knowing that there were strong girls behind me, girls whom I was expecting would catch me at any second. I was able to hold on to my lead and I earned my first NorAm win! Woo! 4 Buff ambassadors in the top 5! The first ski of 2015! The best (and only?) way to kick of the new year! Beauty ski at Pocaterra in Kananaskis. Finally! The most important races of my season thus far happened at World U23 trials in Duntroon. It was a really solid and consistent weekend of racing for me, with a 4th place in the skiathlon, 6th in the sprint, and another 4th in the 10km skate. These results earned me a ticket to Kazakhstan for the World U23 Championships! For the most part, I was really satisfied with these races. I was happy with my efforts in the distance races, and as always I learned some valuable lessons - like that no matter how hard it is to keep food down between my qualifier and my heats on sprint day, it's imperative that I eat! I found myself short of energy and unable to have any good heats on sprint day - so I made a note to not repeat that mistake again. Western Canadian Champs held in Canmore. Another NorAm podium in the skate sprint! I love sharing the podium with team mates! I earned a 2nd place the following day in the 15km skate mass start - it was a good weekend! A good start to the season. I had a bit of time to prep and train in Canmore before taking off for... THE ORIENT! (Kazakhstan)
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