***Teammate, Tony Benshoof took the photo above. He does amazing work with his camera. If it weren't for him I would have very few photos of myself sliding. So big Thanks to him!!!!***
We are now sitting in the airport in Salt Lake City, UT getting ready to head to Vancouver for the International training week in Whistler. This is the only training opportunity we will have on the Olympic track prior to the games. We have had really great training in Park City. We had long days with double sessions, and the coaches kept us very busy. I definitely think the team is ready for the training week, and also ready to transition over to world cup weeks and competing. We will have 18 runs in Whistler, I definitely feel like I had a good grip on the track last year, and I am looking to just completely focus on getting completely comfortable with every run I slide. The most important aspect of sliding is being comfortable on the sled and not tensing up. When you are tense on the sled, you will be more likely to make sharp movements which ultimately can cause trouble (crash, get off line) but if nothing else you will lose time going down the track, because with all of your movements you are causing extra friction between your sled and the ice. This was the biggest thing I worked on this summer both in wheel training, and in balance/agility work outs.
The men's team was finalized during the race-off in Park City. Congratulation to Chris Mazdzer and Trent Matheson for earning their spots on the World Cup team. They will join Tony and Bengt (who were pre-qualified). The woman's team will be finalized after the training week in Whistler. The first two team trials proved to be very close, competitive racing. Two more girls will join Erin and I in the world cups.
I will try and keep my blog up more, from here on out we will just be sliding once a day. Whistler area is known for having a lot of bears, so we are hoping they aren't all in hibernation yet, last year we missed them by about a week.
I was featured on Bill Green's Maine Saturday November, 7th. This is the link to the episode, I am not sure if it will be shown on the internet. But you can probably catch it on channel 6 some night this week.
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=110717
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