My first blog ever!!! Hope you enjoy!!

This being my first blog I'm not quite sure where to start ill first start off by talking a bit about myself,  I am 17 almost 18 years old, I'm a competitive ski racer and I love playing all sports in my down time!  I'm not quite sure what else to say about my self so if you want to know anything more about me ask it in the comments below :) .  The point of my blog is to be a week/biweekly blog post to keep everyone updated on what i'm up to and any funny story's along the way.

So my season is now getting close to half over and its been a crazy/awsome season.  My season began all the way back in the summer at the end of June beginning of July in mt.Hood government camp, Oregon USA, this was my first camp of the season and was the first part of my journey to the top!  It was a great 2 week camp at the very beginning of the summer, I worked very hard on my GS skiing and my foundation, meaning working on good habits and making the right moves every single turn.  It was a hard working and very fun ski camp and I recommend that if you want to go to the next step you have to work hard and do a lot of slow technical skiing.

For the people who haven't been to Mt.Hood before it is a great place always sunny, very warm, and theres snow and the daily life is just awsome walking around the town after skiing shorts and t-shirts and working on your tan!!

While in Mt.Hood we took one day off to go white water rafting, as always one of the best days of the year!! unfortunately I don't have any photos of the day off but, the second best part of the time when were not skiing is our hike we go on to the water fall, it is a 30-45min hike threw the woods to an awsome beautiful 100ft water fall, we can climb right down under the water fall or just climb in behind it and get some super cool photos!!

After our amazing two weeks in Mt.Hood we had to come home :( for the rest of the summer I spent alot of my time in the gym training with Canuck Athletics I trained for 5 days a week and 3 hours today, it was a lot of work and insane determination to keep going every morning no matter what.  I knew tho that if I kept going it will bring me one step closer to making it to the top and that if I take a day off there is some one else out there who isn't. 

After a long, hot and painful but fun summer it was time to go skiing again, not to mt.Hood this time but to Valle Nevado, Chile.  It was not my first time to chile but it was definitely my best camp in Chile to date.  We were there for 3 weeks and every day was nothing less than awsome training and a step in the right direction.  It was where I felt my GS skiing really improved for the first time, I carried over the stuff I learnt in mt.Hood and kept working on improving it. The ski hill was nothing less than amazing every single day the snow was perfect, minus the decline in amount of snow over the days because of how hot it was, but besides that we couldnt have asked for anything less 

One of my most favourite parts about going to Valle Nevado is the beautiful sun sets that occur every single night, they are absolutely stunning.

 

Training in Chile in the pre season was such a key part of my improved GS skiing this year and stronger faster skiing. 

Once again we had to come home but this time for school and more training in the gym.  School definitely isn't the funnest part about being home thats for sure.  At home I tried to catch up at school and kept working hard in the gym, as well as worked on my technique in pole vaulting, yes I do pole vaulting... I am not very good at it but hey, its just for fun.  At first I started pole vaulting last year in may because our track coach at school was allowing some of us to learn how to pole vault and compete for the school,  my best friend Greg and I were the first pole vaulters for the school I was competing for the Senior age group and Greg for the junior.  We learnt how to pole vault and had tons of fun with it neither of us our the next world champion but it was a way to have fun and hang out.  We both qualified for East Regionals in Ottawa unfortunately that was the end of my pole vaulting journey for last year as I did not qualify for OFSAA.  On the other hand Greg went on to compete at OFSAA in Sudbury and did awsome for only pole vaulting for 3 months :D . 

Now back to skiing haha!! I've talked about Chile and Mt.hood now for our last preseason camp to Panorama.  This was our last chance to perfect our technique and skills we have been working on all year before our first races it was a 2 week camp in Panorama, BC. Again I worked super hard on my GS skiing and even did some intense SL training at the end of the Panorama camp I felt so ready for my first races it was awsome! 

So im going to end my first blog here at the end of our Panorama ski camp.  I hope everyone enjoyed reading my blog and I will post another blog soon on how my season is going and some of the troubles I have gone threw this season and some of my favourite/best moments of this year!