Monday, September 5, 2005

Subject: End of Summer... Not the end of sailing!

Hello to all of you!

It has been a couple months since I last wrote, and I have to say its been quite busy on my end of things. I have spent the last 2 months coaching for the Alberta Sailing Team and its been a great time. I've had a wonderful opportunity to come back to my home province and I've met a whole lot of upcoming prairie sailors with lots of potential. It certainly is a change of pace from sailing full time. Thank you to the Alberta Sailing Association and all the sailors for this great opportunity and experience.

Now for me its back to work on my own sailing! I am heading to the UK tomorrow to do some training with the British Sailing Team. I will be doing a few of their Qualifying regattas as well as some training camps. I am really looking forward to getting back on my own program and sailing lots in the next few months! Around the 23rd I will be heading to Rhode Island where I will be on the Canadian Team for the World Team Racing Championships. This is going to be quite the experience for me I believe as I haven't ever done that much team racing in my career so-far! After those worlds, I will head back over to the UK for some more training. THEN its time for the Canadian National Qualifying Regatta in late October. This event will be in Kingston, Ontario. All I have to say is... Its gonna be cold!! I am packing all my clothes for that trip.

At the moment, I have my plans so that I would fly home after the NQRs, but I am looking at flights and costs to go back over to europe for a few more weeks, this time to France. The French Team is having a training camp and I've been invited and told this is one not to miss, so I am doing my best to try and make it back for that. It will be fantastic training as well as a good time to meet up with some potential coaches for the upcoming years.

After all of that is done, I will head home for a week or so and then off to Brazil for the Laser Radial World Championships. This is the major event of the year and all this training will hopefully not be in vain! It is at this event where I need to qualify for the Canadian Sailing Team for 2006.

So that is a preview of the next 4 months for me. I am really excited, but also a little stressed as there is a lot going on. I am sure that once I get back into a laser radial and I'm training again things will all calm down for me.

On that note, I do think its about time for me to start packing for my long trip! I won't be back home until November sometime! Wow!

Take good care! You will be sure to hear from me again soon.

Ciao!
~~Keamia~~