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Next Chris and I went off to visit my Alma Mater, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. We had a wonderful time, it just so happened to be baseball alumni weekend, the same weekend as our track and field alumni weekend -it was so wonderful to see so many people and my beautiful school once more
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This was by far the most wonderful trip of my life!!! I had the most incredible time and owe so much to the bobsled members of spirit of panama (please google “spirit of panama” and watch their documentary, learn about their cause it’s truly inspiring)!
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END of season
With the end of the season at hand, we were able to take off the month of April and I decided to go on some adventures. While on America’s Cup this year, I made friends with the Panamanian Bobsled team aannnddd with no trouble convinced my boyfriend (Olympic Luge Athlete Chris Mazdzer) to go visit them in Panama with me! After that we went to go visit my Alama Mater, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Pictures up next….
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At the very very end of the season we got a freak heat wave, and the track was closed for a couple days because the weather was so warm it was melting it away! What better to do than have a luge-skeleton-bobsled frisbee game?!
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During March when the track was still open, but there was a shortage of athletes (brakemen) I decided to give skeleton a whirl for a week. It was a really really fun experience and by the end of the week I jogged the sled off the top and had 3 successful trips allll the way to the bottom :) I learned a lot and had a lot of fun~ that picture is of me and one of my closest friends in lake placid, Greg West, a national skeleton team member
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Pictures from raceday
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Last Race at Lake Placid, with my brakeman Caitlin Carter #twokatelynsarebetterthanone!
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International Friends at world championships in Lake Placid (still during my rehabilitation for my back) Elana Meyers and Katie Eberling got Bronze and Steve Holcomb won gold in both two man and fourman!!! It was so exciting to be there for my teammates and watch them do well after training with them all summer!
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doing some sled work, aligning runners and writing down measurements
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After the Race in Lake Placid….
After the race in lake placid, we were given a few more weeks to practice and then went home for the Holidays. I was unfortunately only able to stay home for a very short time, and then came back to Lake Placid to work while we still had time off. Then I continued to train in Lake Placid on the track once it was open again. In early February I was asked to join some drivers on the world cup circuit as a brakeman for the races in Whistler and Calgary. I jumped at the opportunity, however the day of my departure I was informed that I had a herniated disc in my back between my L5 and S1 vertebrae. I had been having a lot of trouble with my back, especially after certain lifts, I was hoping it was something that would go away or was just muscular, but that was not the case. I still went up to Whistler, but cut the trip short because I was in a lot of pain and being a brakeman at speeds of 141km/hr was making my back much worse. I went home to visit Excelsior Orthopedics in Buffalo and figured out a plan to get myself better so that I could take advantage of the time the track would remain open to practice driving.
