March 15, 2010 - Vancouver 2010, Bronze in Slalom

March 17, 4th in G.S. (March 17th)
March 18, 5th in Downhill (out of bronze by 3/10ths of a second!)

March 19, 7th in Super-G

March 20, 2010 - Vancouver 2010, Bronze in Super-Combined

8 Paralympic medals now.

March 12, 2010 - Whistler:
It's the afternoon before the 2010 PARALYMPIC DOWNHILL - woooooo hooooo! I'm pretty excited! It's been dumping snow here in Whistler so that it looks like Christmas in March. All the snow has meant that they only got the first of the official downhill training runs off, and that was on Wednesday. We went after more than 3 hours' delay and there was still lots of snow on the track. My run wasn't the greatest, so I'm going to have to step it up tomorrow for sure. I actually got a new helmet here at the games, so I'll be rocking it out in a yellow Canadian maple leaf helmet. The race is sold out, but CHEER, RING YOUR COWBELLS, YELL HUP! HUP! and SEND GOOD VIBES from wherever you are!!! P.S. I got a new camera recently but can't find the cable, so that's why there haven't been any pictures in a while. I'll definitely get some from the games someway.

March 5, 2010 - Lake Cowichan, B.C.

Today is the last day of our last training camp prior to the 2010 Paralympics. It's been a dryland training camp and I have really enjoyed my time out here (even though it has only been a few days). We leave for Whistler tomorrow. We'll train a few days in Whistler before the first official Downhill training run on March 10th. Then, the first race (Downhill) on Saturday, March 13th. It will be my first Paralympic race in 8 years! (my last one was the Slalom in Salt Lake City in 2002). I feel great right now.

I've been home for about a week since our World Cup tour in Europe and I'll be leaving in about a week for our last real training camp prior to the Games in Panorama, B.C. I'm feeling good and happy to be home for a little while. I ended up with 2 podiums on the World Cup tour this season - both coming in Downhill and both in Sestriere, Italy. I really like the track and the snow over there and I generally feel good when I am there. Needless to say, those are feelings I'll be hoping to replicate very soon in March! I do hope some of you can come out and watch me race. Tickets are only $15 and available on the VANOC website. Hope to see you there and keep your eyes peeled for the girl in the PINK HELMET! :)

January 20, 2010 - Sestriere, Italy

I am so excited! I just got my first World Cup podium of the season today: a 2nd in Downhill here in Sestriere, Italy. What a great day! Plus, we have another Downhill scheduled for tomorrow, so I'm excited for that as well. We've been on the road in Europe for nearly 3 weeks now, racing nearly every day. It's been an incredibly intense schedule. First we were in Roll-Rinn, Austria (not far from Innsbruck). There we had a G.S. and a Slalom. The G.S. went well and the Slalom a little less so. After Roll-Rinn we moved on to Abtenau, Austria (near Salzburg) where we had race after race it seemed. We had a bunch of Slalom and G.S. races and although my Slalom results don't look the best, I was skiing some amazing Slalom there, but it's always pretty tight and crazy with Slalom and mistakes are bound to happen when you're pushing it. So, that's the quick update from Sestriere, Italy. One more Downhill, a super-G and a Super-Combined on the schedule before we head home back to Canada. Thanks for all your support everybody!!

January 1, 2010:

Happy New Year! I can't believe 2010 is finally here. On one hand, it has been a long time in coming, on the other, it means there's really so little time between now and the Paralympic Games in March. I just recently finished my first races of the season in Austria. I got a 2nd in G.S. in Kuthai (photo attached) which was great. I also got a 4th in Slalom (also in Kuthai) and a 6th in the opening G.S. in Pitztal. A few of the other races were cancelled due to weather and snow so we didn't get as many starts as we would have liked, but it was still really good to get out there and "get the bugs out," so to speak. It was also - 20 or colder every single day that we were in Austria, so by the end of it we were frozen solid!

Back in October I got to spend the day at President's Choice headquarters in Toronto, along with Larisa Yurkiw of the able-bodied team. It was a fun day (photo attached) but, I'm sorry to say, Larisa has since sustained a knee injury. In fact, including Larisa, 5 members of the able-bodied Canadian team are out for the season due to injury.

I head back to Europe on Monday for World Cup races. First stop, Roll-Rinn/Patscher-Koffel, Austria, then Abtenau, Austria and finally Sestriere, Italy (which I am particularly looking forward to). It's going to be a long stretch on the road, but I really hope it goes well! Happy 2010!

December 7, 2009:

I can't believe December is here already! Time has really flown by since my training camp in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In fact, we've had a whole other training camp since then (in Panorama, B.C.) and I am heading to Austria in a matter of hours for the first races of the season. Obviously, I'm excited! :) Panorama was yet another good camp - there were some highs and lows, but I ended on a good note and that was really important for me to do before heading into the racing season. So, I've been busy with on-snow training, dryland training, as well as some other fun opportunities, like meeting Prince Charles and Camilla.The excitement for 2010 is palpable and really building here in Vancouver, but I am really glad to be able to go to Europe and focus on racing. Will send updates from Pitztal and Kuthai, Austria soon.