American Cup
This weekend me and the rest of my training group traveled to Cleveland Ohio to skate in American Cup 2 and to say things did not go as planned would be an understatement. First our flight out of Calgary was delayed so we missed our connecting flight and ended up arriving 4-5 hours later than anticipated and things kind of went from there; people missed busses, taxies were late, because the taxies were late half the team was late for the flight this morning but thankfully we all made it back safe and sound.
I’m not going to lie to you, I was fully planning on making this post about how bad this competition was because the first day did not go very well for me. I was disqualified in my first distance and made some bad decision in my second and all in all I was not executing things very well, I thought I should have been skating a lot better and this upset me but as my coach told me I still had time to turn it around. On the second day my first distance was okay, but not great, so I thought that the weekend was kind of a write-off. In my last race however I did turn the weekend around, I executed passes and my strategies like I wanted and came out with a pretty good race and that’s all it took to turn the weekend from a bad one to a good one.
All in all it was good to go to the US and race against people we don’t usually race against, you learn a lot more and have to think faster on your feet. In Canada we always race against the same people so you know how people race, who you can beat and who you can’t and what they’re going to do in their races so it was kind of interesting to not know what was coming and we got some good race experience because of it.
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