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Lauren Gibbs
Lauren Gibbs
American Athlete
Born: Mar 2, 1984
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More and more, I am realizing that life is too short to do crap that doesn't make you happy, and we only get one shot at it all. Lauren Gibbs
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Every day, I put on a suit, and I felt like I was playing dress-up in my mum's closet. It just wasn't right. Lauren Gibbs
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A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete's ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean. Lauren Gibbs
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I travel quite a bit for both bobsled and leisure. Lauren Gibbs
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I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English. Lauren Gibbs
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When you start your bobsled career at 30, a time when most are settling down into their 'real careers' and many are getting married, you can imagine the barrage of questions and the look of, 'You're doing what?' that you receive. Lauren Gibbs
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If your dream sounds like a real stretch and everyone around you is looking at you like you have completely lost it, it might just be exactly what you need. Lauren Gibbs
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I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago. Lauren Gibbs
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I love when things don't go to plan. Lauren Gibbs
Love Go Plan Things
It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute. Lauren Gibbs
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It is funny, the things you miss about a more conventional lifestyle. I miss seemingly mundane tasks, like cleaning the kitchen, moving my furniture around to achieve just the right look, and checking the mailbox. I miss making my bed in the morning before work. Lauren Gibbs
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I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised. Lauren Gibbs
Job Risk She Always Surprised Been Quitting Mum
When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take. Lauren Gibbs
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I went to a good school, played sports; things came relatively easy for me. Whenever I would get faced with adversity, I would always go do something else. Lauren Gibbs
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Bobsled is the first time I decided, win, lose, or draw, I was all-in for all four years. I figured if I was going to step away from a very lucrative career, I owed it to myself and my family to see this through to the very end. Lauren Gibbs
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I actually found CrossFit on a run from my house in Orange County. I moved around with it for a while, which is the best part about it. I love it, but it was something I did because I enjoyed the camaraderie aspect of it, not so much the competing side of it. Lauren Gibbs
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I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves. Lauren Gibbs
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I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about. Lauren Gibbs
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I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don't know what's happening, you don't know where you are on the track, you don't know when it's going to be over, and you don't know what it's supposed to feel like. Lauren Gibbs
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I can't believe where life has taken me. Lauren Gibbs
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