Snow is on our Christmas List

Cory completed his last session of dryland training with Special Olympics Vancouver this week and the local hills are just as dry as well.  Seems when we get rain, we also get unseasonably warm temperatures and when it's cold, it's sunny.  With the first local on-snow session scheduled for January 5, it will need to snow a lot in a hurry to make that happen. So looks like we'll have to plan some trips to Whistler in January so Cory can prepare for the Provincial Games on February 19-22 at Sun Peaks near Kamloops.

Cory enjoyed his 5 weekly dryland sessions with new coaches Heather & Mark.  The sessions were very much ski-specific and targeted at quite a high performance level too, which is often not the case at Special Olympics.

He strengthened his core...




improved his balance...





and got used to being in starting gates, with a quick tuck from the last gate to the finish line as is required in any race...





We hope to obtain some video from the Special Olympics Performance Camp he attended a couple of weeks ago at Sun Peaks and we'll update then,  Or maybe when we get some snow!