Oh Canada

"HOWEVER MEAN YOUR LIFE IS, MEET IT AND LIVE IT."

NAC #1 & #2 Completed

So we have returned to Canada safe and sound and what a trip it was!

After we finished the Park City driving school we had one off day before we immediately went into the training runs for the North America's Cup at the Utah Olympic Park.

We had training runs Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  Our training runs started at 2 pm and we each were allowed 2 runs a day.  In order to qualify for the racing we need to have 2 clean runs out of 6.

We completed all 6 runs with no issues.  The first 3 runs I pushed with the pilot in the sled and the last 3 we both pushed.

We had some decent runs and some fun runs.  We got to use our official FIBT runners which was pretty exciting.  They were so beautiful and shiny.

One issue that arose in our training runs was our lack of experience.  The Pilot landed on the brakes 2 of 3 times she jumped in and I was unable to get the same hit with her running which was my issue.

We made the call to have the pilot sit in the sled and have me push alone.

We hit PBs on both our runs and our starts during the races.

We had some great growth between the two of us.

We did come in last but we were able to finish all our runs and get below 55 seconds for the first time.

It's been a crazy run so far, many stories.

I am so happy I said yes to this wild ride.

We are now in Calgary for the next set of races.

Official slide count: 26 (16 at school, 6 training race runs and 4 race runs)