Thursday, November 15, 2007

Calgary, Canada

We made it to Calgary about 3 days ago. Its just like Cool Runnings the bobsled movie just to give everyone something to relate the location to.

Its cold here compared to Lake Placid and Park City, but that always seems to happen. We slid yesterday and today, the ice is a lot harder here, so if you don't relax enough you skid and slow yourself down more than hitting walls. Lets just say I wasn't very relaxed so my first day of training wasn't great but today was better by the 3rd run at least.

Its about 40 degrees today, but I don't know what it is about Calgary it always feels like it is about negative something outside. The cold goes right through you here. It should be in the 30's next week which is good for sliding except we have next week off from sliding because it is Luge World Cup.

We are going to the ice house later on today. It has an indoor push track, so we are going to use extra pushing as a workout. All next week we are pushing instead of sliding. Its a cool place, I'll take some pictures and put them on the website later on today.

Have a great day everyone!

3 comments:

Erin said...

wow Canada sounds like fun, maybe I will fly up and visit you for my birthday haha :) i wish, but anyway good luck in Canada

Kaitlin said...

Posting for Annie who may be too busy training... but everyone should check out this story:

http://usbsf.com/TopStory6.html

It tells about live coverage of the world cup races.

GOOD LUCK ANNIE!! relax and have fun!

Kaitlin said...

p.s. to annie - when you get a chance, just post a short blog with that link since people are less likely to read my comments.