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Lauren Gibbs
American
Athlete
Born:
Mar 2
,
1984
About
Day
Life
Me
Work
You
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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
Life
You
Happy
Life Is Too Short
Too
More
Only
More And More
Make
Am
Get
Short
Crap
Realizing
Shot
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
Day
Every Day
Every
Dress-Up
Put
Like
Felt
Closet
Just
Mum
Right
Playing
Suit
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
Power
Back
Broad
Athlete
Athletic
Toss
Ability
Clean
Combine
Sport
Sprint
Jump
Squat
Tasks
Staff
Shot
Coaching
Coaching Staff
Requires
Measure
Help
Series
Competitive
I travel quite a bit for both bobsled and leisure.
Lauren Gibbs
Travel
Bit
Both
Quite
Quite A Bit
Leisure
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
You
Ignorance
People
Arrogance
Speak
Language
Country
Few
Enough
Visited
Able
Part
Most
Call
Am
Get
Few People
Being
Where
Places
Used
English
Lucky
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
Time
You
Down
Settling
Married
Look
Most
Real
Doing
Questions
Getting
Getting Married
Your
Many
Receive
Start
Career
Imagine
Careers
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
You
Looking
Lost
Just Be
Everyone
Dream
Exactly
Exactly What
Like
Around
Real
Sounds
Just
Might
Your
Your Dream
Need
Stretch
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
Dreams
Sports
Thought
Kid
Those
About
Something
Lifetime
Like
Felt
Always
Were
Often
Loved
Olympics
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
Thoughts
Amazing
Minute
Through
Head
How
Race
Your
Many
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
Work
Funny
Morning
You
Cleaning
Achieve
Before
Furniture
About
Seemingly
More
Kitchen
Lifestyle
Miss
Checking
Like
Look
Around
Bed
Making
Tasks
Just
Conventional
Moving
Mundane
Right
Things
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
Work
Great
Great Things
College
Would
Could
Take
Feel
Like
Know
Graduated
Meant
Things
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
Good
Adversity
Me
Sports
School
Else
Relatively
Would
Easy
Faced
Something
Something Else
Always
Came
Go
Get
Whenever
Things
Played
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
Time
Myself
Family
Win
First
Lose
Draw
See
Through
Step
First Time
Years
End
Very
Owed
Going
Decided
Figured
Lucrative
Away
Four
Career
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
Love
Best
Side
Run
Best Part
About
Something
Part
County
House
Because
Around
Camaraderie
Did
Orange
Orange County
Moved
Which
While
Much
Aspect
Found
Actually
Enjoyed
Competing
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
Work
You
Mechanic
Think
Ourselves
Runners
Maintain
Sport
Obviously
Lot
Very
Blue-Collar
Being
Want
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Sand
Grit
Us
Really
Help
Wash
Travels
Thing
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
Work
Day
Every Day
Job
Living
Every
Corporate
Kind
About
Self
Had
Like
Felt
Doing
Passionate
Authentic
Authentic Self
Just
Just Kind
Wore
Suit
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
You
Think
Scariest
About
Part
Feel
Over
Like
Supposed
Know
Track
Going
Just
Where
Happening
I can't believe where life has taken me.
Lauren Gibbs
Life
Me
Believe
Taken
Where
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