Vancouver Now - FEBRUARY 12 to 28, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Off-ice adventures

The first half of the season is finally finished! 

I was the only brakeman to do all five races of the half - four with Kaillie Humphries and one with Amanda Stepenko. I have established three new push-start records and we tied a fourth.  We set a track record on Altenberg - one of the most challenging tracks, and won both a bronze and a gold medal.

Yes, it was a very good first half and I appreciate all of the messages of congratulations from home. But there's still a lot of the season left to go. There are still three more races in the World Cup circuit, with the Olympic team not being announced until after two of those. So much can still happen between now and then, and that means that I can't take anything for granted.

 

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One hundred days to go!

What? The Olympic Games are only 100 days away? Wow! That's hard to believe.
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Embracing the promise of the cold

The start of the season is so close I can now feel it in my bones. Part of that may be the chill that I haven't felt since last winter.
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My new motto: Live to inspire

Wow - I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated my blog. I am so sorry that it's taken this long. I guess part of the reason is that not much has been going on as it's off-season, but also that I've been pretty busy.

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Fourth at the Olympics - unfinished business

I was asked to write a special blog entry about the Olympics - whatever I wanted: My goals for the upcoming 2010 Olympics; what it feels like to know the next Olympics are in my home country; what it was like to walk into the arena during the Opening Ceremonies at the last Olympic Games in Torino in 2006.

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