Happy New Year...New start!!!

The past few weeks have been extremely busy, productive, and pleasant. I spent ten days in Lake Placid, training and recovering there. The training center was practically empty and I was able meet and work with the trainers a lot. I left there feeling near 100% and with full confidence that I will be more than ready come our World Cup race next weekend. I went home to Maine for 5 days and had a great Christmas with my friends and family. I spent a lot of time with my sisters, and nephew. He just turned a year old and I can’t believe how much he changes while I am gone. He is becoming his own little amazing person. I can already tell he is going to be a great athlete. ☺
It was really nice to be home although it went by very quickly and I was extremely busy. I am so gracious to everyone who has been supporting me these past few months, and the community planned a great send off celebration for me. Thank you to everyone who came, it was so great to see all of you, and many of you I haven’t seen in a few years.
We just wrapped up our first week overseas, I had my best finish of the year, finishing 7th in the world cup. I was mostly pleased with my race, more than anything I am thankful that my health has kept up and I have been able to maintain the great feeling I had at home, while hopping back on my sled. I pulled my fastest start time ever here, and had a really good week of training. I still have some work to do in my sliding, but this is a great place to start and I hope to only move forward from here. The next month my only focus will be using every run to get more comfortable and natural feeling on my sled, something that for me comes with taking many runs. We are packing up now and heading to Munich for the night before we move on to Winterberg, Germany.

Happy 2010 everyone! We had a nice mellow NYE, which for myself concluded at 10:30PM (we had qualifying the next day) We did however light off a bunch of fireworks, which is the biggest bonus of spending NYE in Germany.