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" With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one. "

Gretchen Bleiler

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" Mt. Hood is still one of my favorites for its sun, warmth, and slushy, forgiving conditions. "

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" I get to experience so much in my life as I travel around, and it's just such a great way to get to share that with people. All these sites, like Twitter and Make It Pro, give me such a very strong way to interact with people. It's easy to let people be part of your life and to keep all of your friends and fans together. "

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" I think whenever you get out and do something different, like mountain biking or surfing, it just makes you more aware of your body and balance. For me, I've always loved anything that involved sports, so I've always just tried different things. "

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" If you take minutes a day to take care of your mouth, the odds are you'll take the next steps needed to take care of your whole body, like exercising and eating healthy. It's a building block for other healthy habits. "

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" Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now. "

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" What snowboarding has always had and the Olympics has not touched is that spirit, that original spirit of creativity and athletes standing up and having a voice and being innovative. But I guess what the Olympics has done is provided a platform for that spirit, and that's what I see as being a really positive thing. "

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" It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin. "

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" I'm a competitor, and since I was 2 years old, I have always wanted to be the best at whatever I was doing. "

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" My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard. "

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" Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to frustration or anxiety. We end up feeling as though we have to power through what we want rather than enjoy the process and just let the result come as it may. "

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" You've made the time to go to the gym, so don't just go through the motions. "

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" When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can. "

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" I think snowboarders have a unique experience when it comes to the Olympics because we have a pretty frequent competition circuit in addition to the games. So it's not a sport where your big moment is just once every four years. "

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" I've always had bigger legs and butt; it's just the way I'm built. Over time, I realized that they were blessings because that foundation - my legs and butt - is what helps me flip 12 feet above an icy halfpipe. "

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" I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed making the team. "

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" If you wake up in the morning, and you're feeling tired, I feel like if you get on your yoga mat and even practice for, like, 10 or 15 minutes, it's really great for just grounding you, centering you, and getting the energy moving. "

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" From day one, snowboarding led me down a totally different path, and it's that path that's kept me laughing and continually intrigued. I love the satisfaction at the end of the day of overcoming my fears, of spending all day outside working hard, and there's nothing better than the feeling of landing a new trick for the first time. "

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" I'm on the road a lot, but I eat healthy whenever I can with foods that don't contain pesticides. "

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" I'm so grateful for all the experiences I've had; the life lessons I've learned along the way are just completely invaluable. "

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