Utah Races, travel to Calgary

So now I'm back in Calgary, it seems a fleeting memory that I was in Utah. Park City is one of the most gorgeous places I've been too. Its got this crystal cold clean air, it fills your lungs with pure oxygen and lights up your body from the inside. The 2002 Olympic Track is a rather nice track to slide on, its fun, fast, with some seriously twisted corners, namely 11, 14 and 15. Our races went well, though I've never raced 2 days in a row let-a-lone 3, but I did it and survived. I pushed my massive beast of a sled fast down my little icy runway. We should've come 3rd on our last day, but it just wasn't in the books, so we finished with a 4th, and two 5th places. Not bad, but not amazing. Hopefully Calgary will be better.

A bunch of us decided to drive home to Calgary a day early, so that we could have all of Sunday off to hang out, do laundry and sleep in. On our drive home, a drive that should've taken 13 hours, we hit two blizzards and were forced to drive at 60km/h on the I-15 the fog was so thick that we couldn't see but 10m in front of us. My trusty pilot who was navigating decided to take a picture of this incredible fog, and of course as soon as she brings out the camera, the fog moves away, so we ended up just hanging the camera from the mirror and away we went, with much better visability - Murphy's Law really works! Our drive ended 16 hours later...so it was a very long day. While I was in the back with one of the little sliders, I ended up tutoring him on my favourite of all favourite Shakespeare works - Macbeth. We had a great time and got him all caught up while the two drivers up front discussed the road conditions and visibility.

Needless to say, it was amazing to have Sunday off and once again I got to sleep in this morning so I am a happy camper.

Today unfortunately its around -33C here in Calgary, and while sliding is cancelled at -25 we only have 3 days of official training so that would leave us with only 2 days, and 4 runs, not much time to memorize the track. But I know my pilot can do it. So heres to hoping the weather warms up and I get to race...