For the record, I am well aware that the profile is not my strongest orientation in terms of photogenic angles. Thanks for that dad.

Today was our last day of sliding in Calgary, and my wrestling-name-partner -in-crime Rob, aka The Mighty Shadow, and I, aka Ivory Nova, took the last two runs of our session and season.

Thus concludes one hard-hitting week of sliding.

A month ago I decided that I would try to hit a total of 250 runs in Calgary by the year's end. At the start of the week I realized I would need 25 more runs to hit the target. Let me put that in perspective: normally we take 2-3 run per day, four runs if one is feeling really energetic. After that your brain generally turns to mush, you start drooling and your reaction times equal that of a sloth. With five days of sliding a week, that means we normally average 10-15 runs per week. So 25 runs in five days is ... ummm ... ambitious.

But does the prospect of mushy brains and uncontrolled drooling stop Ivory Nova? NEVER!

I did 6, 6, 5, 5, 4 runs respectively, for a grand weekly total of 25 runs, to equal my target 250 total runs on Calgary, 75 last year, and 175 this year.

Now, please excuse me while I go scrape my brains off the ice, wipe them off with the excess drool and return them to their proper place.