Tropical Temptation

Tropical Temptation...

It has often been said in sport that recovery is equally important to the actual working hard part of training. So after a gruelling winter training camp in Canmore I boarded a plane to Cuba with my mom and grandma for some tropical r and r. We arrived in Cuba at the smallest airport I have ever encountered; one terminal, one plane at a time. The sole purpose of this airport was to bring in and bring...
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Name That Precipitation!

Name That Precipitation!...

This past week I was at a training camp in Ottawa, ON with the national head coach Michal and the regional coach James. The majority of athletes attending the camp were local, but Hayden, AJ, and I represented Alberta. The water levels at the Pumphouse were awkward. Not low enough but not high enough either. We were without water for only one day. As we boarded the plane in Calgary we left behind the...
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World Freestyle Championships

World Freestyle Championsh...

The world freestyle championships wrapped up this weekend in Thun, Switzerland with top competitors from all over the World in attendance. Canadian Nick Troutman won the K1M category, beating the former world champion, Eric Jackson and setting a new high point record.  Emily Jackson took the K1W gold beating the former canadian world champion Ruth Gordon. The full list of results and video from the...
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Donelon Swims the English Channel

Donelon Swims the English ...

A couple of days ago, one of my old friends succeeded in one of her long time goals of swimming the English channel. After her swim being postponed day after day due to weather and current issues, she was able to start her swim on September 6th at 130am. She swam through the night stopping only to rehydrate and refuel. 12 hours later, she found herself in France. Allison is the second youngest Canadian...
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Canadian Nationals

Canadian Nationals...

The Pan American Championships brought slalom kayaking’s top athletes to the Kananaskis River. The competition was fierce and after 3 days of competition, we had new Pan Am champions. In the K1W category, Jessica Groenveld, in K1 David Ford, in C1 James Cartwright, in C2 Ben Hayward and Cam Smedley, and in C1W Cindy Audet. A true Canadian sweep. Our new female national champion in junior and in...
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Instalment VI

Instalment VI...

Sturgeon Falls The drive to Valleyfield was a quiet one. After a couple of weeks on the road, everyone is pretty tired. We arrived and set up our camp in the field of the high school. The B.C.E group arrived and what seemed like a pretty big green space soon shrunk. The Valleyfield training week went by pretty quickly and before we knew it we were racing. Unfortunately I got pretty sick during the...
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Instalment V

Instalment V...

The Colorado Group After all the rain in Minden, we were glad to move on to the Ottawa River where the sun was shining and the water was even warmer. We competed in the Junior Olympics freestyle competition. After waiting 3 hours for a feature to come in, the rodeo got moved from one wave to one just upstream on McCoy’s Rapid. Rodeos happen quite quickly, but we stayed to watch all the events. The...
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Instalment IV

Instalment IV...

Podium: 1st- Thea 2nd- Marissa 3rd- Jazmyn Upon arriving in Minden, it promptly became known that we were not to have a sunny week. The Gull River offered us some of the coldest and wettest weather ever. Luckily with all the constant rain, the bugs were too scared to come out, so only in those short pauses between rainstorms were we ravage on by mosquitoes. With the help of a little white gas, we were...
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Instalment III- New York

Instalment III- New York...

Climbing into the van in Denver, I had no idea that we would be driving for 33 hours straight through. We wanted to do a river run on the way out there, something on the Upper Peninsula near Michigan. So we drove up North, sadly the GPS didn’t know where  the put-in was and we ended up running a short class 3+ with horseflies chasing us the whole way down. Since almost everyone had yet to experience...
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Instalment II- FibArk

Instalment II- FibArk...

The FibArk Festival was great! I was able to catch up with friends from Golden Junior Olympics as well as compete in the slalom race and 26 mile downriver race. Friday night, we joined in on the festivities. Bands played the whole weekend at the outdoor stage riverside. Saturday morning brought the slalom race. I felt pretty good with my first run, but I touched a gate, and so on my second run I set...
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