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“Hi, I’m Jessie. I like glitter, chipmunks and raspberries. And that’s all you really need to know”. That’s been my usual intro for Fast and Female events lately, but I was nearly speechless at our event yesterday, with around 135 girls in pink all over the COE. Just kidding, I’m…

This past weekend I had the great pleasure of crashing the coach’s symposium here in Park City. I didn’t get to go to many of the talks around training, but the guest presentations I got to see were pretty cool. I figure, coaches have to learn so much about us…

I didn’t even trip and fall this time. Nope, not a stumble. Amazing, coming from me, the queen of falling during easy workouts! Yet somehow I managed to injure my right foot while running the second to last day of our training camp in Lake Placid. We were trail running and…

This last week of camp in Lake Placid has been fantastic yet hard training! To fire us all up before our classic team sprint time trial, Matt sent out this gem of a photo: Ok, you can stop giggling now. As you can clearly see, the coaches have been putting…

Here we are, back at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center for our annual fall camp. I think this is arguably one of the toughest training camps of the year, because it’s when we start transitioning to more intensity and harder L4 workouts. It’s the camp with the legendary and…

Can we discuss this whole “#RoadtoSochi” business really quick? What if the road is really more of a running trail? What if part of it’s actually #aquajoggingtoSochi or #yogatoSochi or #dirttrailtoSochi? I get a kick out of the term “road to Sochi” because it implies that it’s a fairly straightforward and surefire…

Back in my final years of high school, I did a fair amount of skiing with boys. It was a fun challenge to hop into intervals with them, and occasionally, get to hop in a race with them. Though it seemed a weird coincidence that the race I did with…

As I write this, I’m slumped on the floor of my bedroom, with my teammates in various states of consciousness sprawled throughout the house, though most made it to their beds. We just got back from our annual 100km ski, and after 6 hours out in the hot sun skiing up and…

What a week! I came back to the east coast after bopping around from one cabin to another, and jumped right into the BKL and SMS junior summer camps being held at the school. Since I caught a cold, I wasn’t able to do quite as much training and helping…

Almost every summer of my life, I’ve spent some time up in Thunder Bay at the camp. My Grandparents on my Dad’s side have had the camp for a long time, and it’s one of my favorite places to be! I love pretty much everything about the camp – how…