After a couple workouts on the double pole machine, my leg has been feeling much better. It just needed a few days to heal up, and now its doing great! It has been absolutely beautiful here the last several days… warm, sunny, the trees are starting to change colors… so on Friday morning when I [...]
Sometimes you have great days. Sometimes you have days that could have been better. And then there are those days where you wonder what you did to piss off your guardian angel. Today was one of those days… It started with a early morning trip down to the hospital in Salt Lake City [...]
If you are looking for a good time, and you happen to be in Park City… take a trip down the alpine coaster! My dad was in town last week for buisness, and we took a ride down the alpine coaster. Its a combination of an alpine slide and a roller coaster, and [...]
The Whistler Training camp is now over, and it finished up just as great as it started. We finished our stay in Whister with a 10 kilometer time trial up the access road to the Olympic Park. It was definatley a hard workout to wrap up a hard training camp! Then we headed to [...]
We have been in Whistler for a week now, and its flown by! On Monday we did an extremely hard rollerski sprint race around the Olympic course. Between the rounds I closed my eyes and pictured snow, packed stadiums, racers from all over the world, and I could feel the Olympic fever burning inside me! [...]
I am at the U.S. Ski Team training camp in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. (Also known as the home of the 2010 Olympic Games!!!) We are training hard and sharpening our skills for this upcoming season. With the Olympics less than 6 months away, its impossible to ignore the excitement that is [...]
Yesterday I hopped onto a plane and flew to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to meet up with my teammates and coaches for an offical US ski team training camp. We loaded up the van and made the drive up to Whister (the home of the 2010 Olympics, which is just a few short months [...]
Sorry about the technical difficulties I was having with my website. It should be all fixed now, and I will do my best to get you up to speed… I spent 5 weeks training out in Park City, Utah with the U.S. Ski Team Coaches earlier this summer. Training was going awesome out here, [...]
Now that I’ve been in Park City for over 2 weeks, I am feeling acclimated to the altitude and it feels great!!! I have been working with the coaches almost every day (sometimes more than once a day) and I have definately made improvements in my technique. I’m feeling stronger, faster and more efficient than [...]
The first week of training up here in Park City has been going great. I’ve had the Physical Therapists with the U.S. Ski Team look at my legs to make sure they have been healing correctly, and that I am getting back into my training without causing any more damage. The PTs are very happy with [...]
After spending a week in Minnesota I made the trip out to Park City, Utah. I will be living and training out here for the next 5 weeks with the U.S. Ski Team coaches and a few of the top athletes in the country. The last couple days, and this up coming week is going to be pretty easy training-wise [...]
I have been doing more and more with my legs these last few weeks, and its feeling great!!! Now I’m pretty much back in full force! I love being able to train and push my body to its limits… and I LOVE USING MY LEGS!!! :^) I can’t believe its June already! Where did the month of May [...]
After a great stay with the DelBellos in downstate Michigan, I am back in Marquette. The summer is off to a great start (it hasn’t really felt like summer though… it snowed here on Saturday…) The good news is that my legs are feeling better every day. I have been adding some running and bounding back into the training, [...]
The last few weeks have been pretty crazy, so sorry for the lack of updates! I’ll do my best to sum it all up. I drove back to Marquette, Michigan a few days after my stitches were removed. It was great to spend some time relaxing up in the U.P. My roommate, Morgan Smyth, and I had some [...]
Today the stitches were removed from my left leg. I am now stitch free! The doc said that everything is healing well, and I have the OK to start easing back into training ‘as tolerated’!!! The doctor also did a dopplar on the arteries in my feet. I had a strong pulse in my feet at rest, AND when I [...]
This is the second spring in a row that I’ve had major surgery on both of my legs. Its not my idea of a good time… in fact, its extremely painful. It hurts physically. Moving in the wrong direction and a lightening bolt of pain will shoot up my leg all the way to my ears, I [...]
I made it through the second surgery, and after spending the night in the hospital I was released this afternoon. I’m very thankful I just have 2 legs, and that was the last leg! No more surgeries, thank you! Now I can concentrate on healing and getting back on my feet. The doctor is very optimistic. Things [...]
This week has flown by. My boyfriend, Drew, came to Minnesota on Saturday and just left this afternoon. It was great to spend the week with him! My leg is healing nicely, so we were able to do some touristy type activities around the twin cities. We went to Mall of America, and expeienced pure [...]