The big kahuna!

Well my friends today is the day! It's the day that I have been dreaming of since I was a little girl; who knew that on the day of my Olympic final I'd be sipping my coffee solo at 4:30am watching the sun come up in Beijing in total peace and harmony!

Over the past 72 hours I have experienced major emotions that are hard to describe. I've gone from having feelings of wanting to run away, simply saying to Al & Mel "well it's been a slice, thanks for the good times, I'm outta here" to "alright, I feel unstoppable, let's get 'er goin'". Yesterday when I heard that many crews/athletes had to pull out of racing due to a stomach bug, I basically turned into a hypochondriac and started taking on physiological symptoms...when I started to logically analyze the situation I realized that my discomfort may have been caused by the copious amounts of coffee that I had consumed that day. After a hot bath and some neutral food homoeostasis returned to the underworld- whew!!

So, am I ready? I looked back in my journal and realized that I hadn't missed a single practice this year; I have not had to deal with injury; I have a strong partner; we have done the training that has produced champions; we have a coach who is at his 8th Olympic games and has prepared us for every possible scenario; we have a phenomenal support team; I have a company (Midnight Oil & Daylight Energy) who have backed me financially since the beginning of this journey, who have taken care of my day to day worries of "where is the money going to come from for this months rent and groceries"; I have piles and piles of people who believe in me and have faith that I have what it takes to bring home the gold; we have faced every single crew in this final and we know their tactics and have confidence in our own; I know how to sing Oh Canada in both French and English. So am I ready? Hell yeah!!!!!!!

Thank you all sooooooo much for sharing my journey! xoxo T