Fall Training Underway

A new season is upon us as I have started my preparation for the 2012 Canadian Olympic Swimming Trials which are March 27-April 1, 2012. I have been back in the water now for two and a half weeks and am pretty excited with my training already. This is going to be a great season where I will give everything I have to be the best I can be and leave everything in the pool!

We got to do some different cross-training the last two weeks, which I really enjoy where we went hiking/biking in Kananaskis Provincial Park. The first hike we did was called Misty Ridge Trial. It was a slow uphill climb through some brush then over a ridge, however it was absolutely freezing out and snowed on us most of the way!! I did not anticipate snow at the end of August in the mountains. The second hike was Headwall Lakes Trial. It was a wet and cold hike as well bc of all the rain/snow from the day before. Hike wasn’t too bad as I bushwhacked a lot of it until the very end when we got up to the lakes. I had a little energy coming home so I decided to do some trail running at the end.

The next week, we went on a beautiful hike, Pocaterra Ridge Trail. We started this hike in the Highway Pass, so we were already at really high altitude and then it has a really steep climb to the top of the ridge that makes the best athletes slow. The weather this day was absolutely gorgeous and you could see mountain ranges all around you. The next day, I went for a bike ride through the mountains instead of hiking to get some more cardio and leg strength training in. Below is some awesome pictures from the hike.

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Also some exciting news to look forward to. I will be competing in three FINA World Cup Circuits this October over in Europe! More details will follow later, but my schedule next month will be: