1725  Biathlon

What is Biathlon Like?

By MCpl Epp H.

I have been in biathlon for two years now and it is honestly one of my favorite things to do. When I started biathlon I had never skied before. On my first training day for skiing I fell down a lot, your first time is always the hardest. The second time it was ten times easier and I had a lot of fun. I love skiing and I can't ever wait for the next time that I can go to a practice. I didn't find the shooting very hard because I've been shooting all my life and with some training, I got fairly good at it.

The biathlon competition is one of the most exciting things that I have ever done. Racing down the big hills as fast as you can, the pressure of knowing that there is no retry until next year, that each and every shot counts, and each second spent going up a hill can be the difference between making it to provincials or not. It was amazing and I can't say that anything else at I've ever done can compare to it.

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Biathlon is an amazing sport, but if I had to pick a favorite part, it would be all the team building experiences and all the new friends I've made through out my time in biathlon. I would like to thank all my team mates and instructors for making this one of my favorite experiences. I hope that you make the decision to join biathlon next year because I'm sure it will be an amazing experience for you as well.