A big day in Pitztal
Today was my third day of training on the Pitztal Glacier in Austria. It was an exhausting but exhilarating day running heats with my teammate Mikayla. We are both on the development team but have been invited to ski World Cups with the National team. Naturally we want to prove that we belong here and are ready for the challenge,…
Here we go!!
I could not be more fired up to hop on a plane tomorrow and go to a place where I get to do what I love every single day! Ill be in foreign places and different venues with strange people and a new team. This is undoubtedly terrifying yet ridiculously exciting and I’m not quite sure what to make of…
Is This Real Life?!!!
After my most recent training camp in Saas Fee my coaches decided Im finally ready to race with the big dogs and compete in The Cross Alps Tour!! The Cross Alps is a series of World Cups back to back in Europe, It starts in Val Thorens, France, next stop Arosa, Switzerland moving to Montafon, Austria and lastly Innichen, Italy.…
Music as a performance enhancing drug
Rolling up to the mountain in the team van blasting Madonna is one of my favourite ways to start the day. I can’t think of a time during a training camp, race or workout where I wouldn’t listen to music. I play music as I make breakfast, in the lodge warming up, on the chairlift, in the start corral of a…
Taming your mammoth
https://el2.fourhourmail.com/c/p9u938zdpb9hldxk7/rki8hoheqzr7l/aHR0cHM6Ly93YWl0YnV0d2h5LmNvbS8yMDE0LzA2L3RhbWluZy1tYW1tb3RoLWxldC1wZW9wbGVzLW9waW5pb25zLXJ1bi1saWZlLmh0bWw= This is one of the most accurate and empowering articles I’ve read in a long time. How well I ski is strongly dependent on if I care what others think or not. The minute I decide to ignore superficial judgments I instantly preform better.
Air time
During our training camp in Chile we met some like minded athletes with different methods of getting down the mountain. Heres a picture of my teammates getting air on two boards with a two wheeler. No discrimination on Canada ski cross, whatever you ride we’ll shred with you!
