I won, again :)

Well I have had a very busy couple of weeks competing in 2 IC races and 3 Americas cup races.

Today in Calgary we had our 3rd day of racing after 3 days of training and I won the Americas Cup Race with my fastest down time of the week. In the IC race held two days ago I finished with my highest points of the season in 8th place, but was disapointed as I did not have very clean runs and my result was missing the high speeds that I am used to getting, but today I went 2kmph faster making the win even sweeter, my best run of the week, my best down time of the week and my highest speed, i'm super stoked! I also beat the two top IC US athletes and tomorrow morning I am off to their home track, Lake Placid, were I aim to do it again.

Right now I am ranked 2nd overall in the Americas Cup series (even after missing one of the races), I hope to compete in the last two AC races in April (after the World Championships), if all goes to plan then NZ might just be able to bring the Americas cup home after all!

After the IC in Lake Placid I'll head to Europe for the World Chamiopnships, in Altenberg Germany.

You can check out all our rankings at http://www.fibt.com/
and you'll find a points chart so you can compare results on http://www.skeletonsport.com/ (go to the ranking page).

Oh yeah, two golds, but no flag or national anthem!! thats just not fair, I'm just goin gto have to win again and hope that the venue has a traditional awards ceremony. In Park City I was on the podium with Led Zeplin playing!!?

I won

I competed in the first Americas Cup race of the season today in Park City Utah, we had heavy snow -15 degrees celcius and strong winds, it was horrible weather to be sliding in but I put down two great runs on a snowy track. I was .22 behind in the first run but put down my cleanest run in the second heat and finished .08 head of the next closest athlete.

I havn't been on the podium yet, the awards ceremony is tomorrow after the IC race.

Tomorrow I am racing in the 4th Intercontinental race of the seaon, so best go and get a good nights sleep.

Park City sliding

We are now in Park City Utah for the Americas cup and Intercontinental cup races, Iain, Mike, Katharine are also here, with Iain and I racing in the Intercontinental race on Saturday and all of us competing in the Americas cup on Friday.

There is a 'Snow Emergency' in Park City, which means there is so much snow that they have no where to put it so they are restricting cars in the village, it is a real winter wonderland.

Training started yesterday, I did pretty well with a 52.58, and was the fastest women of the second run in our training session.

Ben and Tionette have been training in St Moritz and will shortly be headed to Cessana for the next world cup race.

Time to go to the track now.