Sunday, February 13, 2011

Super G Race.. And Im Alive!

Me and Mau on the Kimberley podium with my Bronse medal.
Canada, Nederland, and USA (me) on the podium
Very sleepy with my birthday crutch.....
Mau and Sue chillin on a ski rack... odd but comfy..
Im Alive!
I wasnt going as fast as i could have been going... and thank god. I was on a slower part of the hill when something went wrong and i hit the ground. Hard enough, though, to rip my goggles off my head and pretty much impail myself with the bar of my outrigger. I was taken down the mountian in a taboggan and then into an ambulance... To make a long story short, i walked away with a soar wrist, which we thought was fractured, a very tight and bruised chest, where they thought i ruptured my spleen ( i dont have all my ribs on my left side so where my outrigger got me worried the doc.) and a very soar neck, back, and knee. Waking up did not feel good. But.. i did anyway and raced the Super G race that was held today. I was only able to finish one race run because when i got to the bottom i could barely breath, because it hurt to inhail. My run wasn't anything i was proud of...at that moment... Later on me and Mau went to the award ceramony and i was standing in the crowed when they were calling off the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of the womens stand up. And i got 3rd! i didnt know that out of the 6 women who raced in that catagory, only 3 made it down the course. I was one of them. I was in complete shock when they said my name. That medal was one of my most acheived. I went threw alot to get it, and i was proud of myself :) Deffinatly a great way to end an amazing trip!

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