I am still sort of on-track for weekly posts, yay! Today is my day off training before the World Cup starts here in Miami, so I’ll give you a little update on what I have been working on. We drove down here last Tuesday with all the boats, and then unloaded everything again! That was a full day of organizing and unpacking lasers (we are […]
Lauderdale OCR
Here is my Lauderdale OCR recap, more or less on my schedule of one blog post a week (racing ended Monday). It was a great start to the 2018 racing season, and was overall a super fun event! We arrive in Florida just over a week ago (the evening of January 9th) so we had three days of training before racing started. Fort Lauderdale is […]
New Year, new blog!
Hi Everyone! I’m sorry I totally failed at posting on this during the fall. It just wasn’t a top priority and with such a busy training and work schedule if I don’t specifically make time for something, it doesn’t get done. In the fashion of New Years resolutions I am going to try to commit to writing a new post every week! I will be […]
Now I’m in Barcelona!
I’m writing this quick update from Barcelona, where I am getting ready for the last big regatta this season, the 2017 Laser European Championship. I arrived Saturday morning (the 30th) and got out on the water for a training session right away. It was great conditions (starting around 12 knots, dying throughout the day) with big chop and waves, which I haven’t sailed in for […]
Learning Lessons the Hard Way
So if you followed my results during worlds you will have seen that I had a pretty terrible regatta, really off target from where I expected to finish. I thought I had prepared really well: I was feeling really fast in the training days leading up to racing, I was feeling strong and had been hitting PRs in the gym a few weeks before leaving, […]
Getting Ready for Worlds!
We finally have internet in our bungalow here in Medemblik, so I can do a blog update! Racing starts tomorrow (Monday August 21st) and goes for six days, with two races scheduled each day. You can look up results (and possibly live tracking and/or video) at the event site (click on results). We have been in the Netherlands for a week now, training and getting […]
National Team 2017
I am so excited to announce that I have been selected for the 2017-18 Canadian Sailing Team! This has been my goal for many years, and is a major step in my dream to represent Canada at the Olympic Games. This past year I have made some really big strides in my sailing and have had much better competition results to show for it, […]
North Americans 2017
Here is my re-cap of this year’s North American Champs in Vancouver! Overall it was a fantastic regatta, with good race management and probably the best conditions Vancouver can offer, which is a breezy thermal westerly. A couple days there was the classic English Bay flood making the tactics hitting the left-hand beach on the upwind and being careful not to get dragged into the […]
More Miami Training
Today is a rest day before the big event! Racing at the 2017 Sailing World Cup Miami starts tomorrow so today I am taking it easy, catching up on some work, and staying out of the sun. We have had some great training over the past few days here and I am feeling fast and excited to race! We have had three really productive days […]
First Regatta of 2017
We finally made it to Miami! After some delays and an unexpected stop-over in Toronto, Erik (my coach) and I landed in Miami yesterday just after noon. We got right down to the boat park to unload and set up my laser. We spent that afternoon getting everything race ready: polishing the hull and foils, replacing some line, taping the spars, and checking out new […]
