One Last Hooray!

And we are outta the blocks on this one! Sunday evening I get a text from a retired Team Canada Pilot "Wanna slide, in 5 races with me in PC and Calgary?" So I'm reading this text thinking hmm I did retire...I haven't been training too much I was sick, I was modelling..oh what the heck she's a favourite of mine, why not see what the costs associated with the trip are and go from there. Less than 24 hours later, with many many phone calls, emails, texts, facebooking and number crunching I will be her one and only brakeman. We will be doing the same Tour that I would've done had I been on the team. So this way, I will be with a pilot I like and enjoy sliding for, I will be supervising myself, I won't have to stand around in the cold filming for hours and I will be racing every single race - did I mention its going to be much cheaper? So I chat with my parents who are away in Egypt and update them, their response "why not??????? you better do it!" After all I am going back to school in January, so between now and then, I don't have much planned, I wanted to take it easy, paint, socialize and just for once not have to be running around like a mad woman. I needed downtime. But after 3 weeks of it, I'm definitely ready for something new, and something new is going back to the something old. This gives me a great opportunity to show my ex coach just what he is missing, while there is no pressure on me at all. I will be flying to Calgary next monday, and departing for Park City, Utah at 6 am Tuesday morning. My pilot and I will be joined by 3 other team mates and we will be sharing the 10-14 hour drive down to Park City. We will be in Park City for 10 days before returning to Calgary for more races and then I will wave farewell to my old team mates and my pilot and return to Vancouver fully finished with Bobsled and ready to go back to school. I am one of the lucky ones who gets to have closure.

I will keep everyone updated on how it all goes!