I'm still here!

Well, it has been a long time since I updated this blog, which is a pity as I had soooo many followers. A few years ago I landed a dream sponsor, he read about me in the Air New Zealand magazine and contacted me, and sponsored me, he did not want me blogging and so I stopped. He is no longer sponsoring me, but helped me get to where I am now, 3 months out from my first Olympic qualification world cup, and I'm no longer required to 'not blog'.

So here's the update, I'm living in Auckland with my brother Matt, who has been a massive supporter of me over the last 9 sliding years. I'm up here to train and my training is based at the Millennium institute of Sport in the New Zealand Academy of Sport Gym (fantastic facility)under the guidance of Matt Kritz senior strength and conditioning specialist for the Academy of Sport, and Dan Lavipour assistant strength and conditioning specialist, these two have been fantastic and written a daily program specifically for me, that addresses my weaknesses, what I have found most beneficial is having them on hand in the gym to give me advice and direction, it is so important, but a luxury I was unable to have over the last few years, I have been setting personal records every week, they are not world record breaking but they are pretty damn good for me, currently I can bench 50kg, dead lift 90kg and squat 96kg. I also have a sprint program that Dan working with me on, and twice a week my brother and I melt a groove into the ice rink at Paradise Ice in Avondale. I push train there and use video and 4 timing eyes to analyse my improvements, I am setting new records every week so Matt's program is obviously working, and am now confident and strong with the one hand push. Using timing eyes when push training has been very interesting, and has shown that what feels good is often slow and what I though felt like a bad push was actually much faster, such important feedback. Whats really cool is that my brother built the timing eyes himself.

I've started tweeting you can follow me @louisecorcoran on twitter.com

Over the last 2 years my brother Matt and I have been developing and building skeleton sleds, Taniwha Sled Company, which has been an exciting venture.



Last month, the New Zealand Olympic Committee held a series of events to honour all Kiwi Olympians and to issue us with our own official Olympian number, it was a great event, and I got to meet many great Kiwis and hear some great stories from Olympic medalists and who had been mad about sport . I am officially Olympian number 983, I made it into the first 1000. The best part of the evening was seeing the older Olympians honoured for their achievements, some of them were in their 70's, I doubt there will ever be an event the same, where all the Olympians in the community are in one place together, I should have taken my camera.

I'm (as always) looking for sponsorship to help me train, qualify, compete and win in the Olympics this coming February, and as a back up plan I'm trying to sell my house to help cover some costs of this coming competition season.

Here's an article that was in the local paper two weeks ago about my preparation for this Olympic season.

So that's the latest on me, please come back and follow my preparation for this season, and if your on twitter then look for me @louisecorcoran

Thanks!