Success in Canmore! Skate Interval Start

On Sunday, all the athletes from the AUSXC Development Tour participated in Stage 4 of the Alberta Cup, which was a Skate Interval Start. Some did 12km, some did 9km, some did 6km but John and I being the youngest participated in the 5km. Yet again, the course was spectacular, with firm, fast tracks, making […]

Success in Canmore! Classic Sprint (Part 2)

My first quarterfinal was at 1:08pm, so I went back down into the town to eat and rest up before going to battle. I got back up to the Nordic Centre at 12pm to give me enough time to get ready for my races. Since I was the fastest qualifier, I had a relatively easy […]

Success in Canmore! Classic Sprint (Part 1)

Racing can be such a rewarding experience when everything goes to plan. It can become a satisfying pain rather than a cruel, seemingly endless grind. This weekend in Canmore proved to be one of my best racing weekends to date. Racing internationally is a fairly new experience for me, and since I had never been […]

My 2019 Monthly Challenges

Youtube has always served me as a great tool for learning, inspiration and inevitably procrastination and I have decided to follow one of my favourite YouTubers, Matt D’Avella. He recently uploaded a video titled “12 Habits for Life”, a video explaining and describing the challenges he prescribed to himself in order to improve his life […]

Interval Week

With less than a week till our final races of the tour, the intervals start to feel as though they are more and more important, more and more competitive. Today, we had classic intervals in the morning (10 x 1min L4 + 4 x 30″ on 30″ off). Two days ago we had had skate […]

Summary 10/1/19

Post race day recovery The main aim about today was to get out for a long, slow ski to flush out the remaining lactate, explore more of the area and just to have fun out in the winter wonderland surrounding us. The day started a bit later than usual due to the race yesterday. We […]

First Race of the Development Tour 2018/19

The first race of the Tour was rough to say the least. Soft snow, cold conditions and lack of light in some areas made the race extremely hard to carry speed and maintain a high tempo. For a Wednesday night club race, the event was very well organised and was undoubtedly a great experience. All […]

AUSXC Development Tour 2018/19 Initial Impressions

Photo Left to Right (Phil, Pat, John, Me, Jana, Chloe, Liam, Charlie, Griffin, Tim, and Iris) The AUSXC Development Tour to Silverstar and Canmore is an experience that gives athletes an opportunity to learn about training and racing overseas, a skill that is fundamental for all World Cup athletes. This blog will give readers insight […]

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me. This blog aims to inform friends, family and the people around me about the training, goals, successes and failures that I encounter throughout my skiing career. Follow along and lets see where this goes! 🤘