http://www.alexaloo.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:40:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2010: The Big Year This year has been the biggest year of my life – and we are only halfway through the year! I competed in the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, placing 12th – and missing the chance to compete in the round of the top eight by only ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=94 I am very excited to be getting married on Friday May 21st to the love of my life, Ari Goosen. We are both pleased to be able to invite the students of Homma elementary and their parents to join us at the wedding ceremony at St. Joseph the Worker ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=93 After a disappointing World Cup result in Nendaz, SUI, where I placed 25th, and an even more disappointing World Cup result in Stoneham, where I fell in my first run, got up and continued riding, only to miss the last gate and get disqualified, I still qualified for the Canadian ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=90 Hi! After a disappointing World Cup result in Nendaz, SUI, where I placed 25th, and an even more disappointing World Cup result in Stoneham, where I fell in my first run, got up and continued riding, only to miss the last gate and get disqualified, I still qualified for the Canadian ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=87 Nendaz 2010 Following the great race in Austria, we drove a million hours – or, at least it felt like a million hours to drive our gutless rental car to Leysin, Switzerland where we trained for a couple of days.  Leysin is quite close to Montreux, which made for a nice ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=83 We kicked off the January World Cups by boarding the planes in Canada on the 31st of December. The plane was delayed, so, when we boarded the plane, the captain greeted us with a cheerful, “It is 2 am in Frankfurt. Happy New Year!” - So much ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=80 The Canadian team wrapped up one of the coldest training camps I have ever been to. We trained for six day in Panorama under blue skies and -30 temperatures. Despite the cold weather, we managed to make some improvements in preparation for the two World Cups in Telluride, ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=79 The tricky thing about snowboarding is that we are fully dependent upon the weather. This week we were supposed to go to Europe for two Europa Cup competitions and one World Cup. The snow situation in Limone, Italy, the site for the World Cup, was so poor (read: ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=46 Hi! Just wanted to share with you how excited I am about the Olympics being only 6 months away! I have just spent the last month in Whistler training twice a day with my trainer Lucinda Thomson.  Hours in the gym, on my bike and on the trampoline have left me fit ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=29 Whew!  I think my season is finally over!  After the last World Cup in March, we traveled to Tremblant, Quebec to battle the elements and each other for the North American and Canadian Champion titles.  Several years ago, someone came up with the great idea to combine Canadian and US ... http://www.alexaloo.com/blog/?p=26