To clarify, I had finished my first degree from the University of Calgary, and I was proceeding part time with a second degree as well as pursuing qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. I was pulling back a little from my studies in pursuing a second degree and focusing my time and energy on training full time as an Olympic hopeful.
As I said, the athlete assistance program at the time was $1,500 a month, and we were paid every two months. As you can imagine, living on $3,000 to get by for over 60 days or so made it a little tight as an athlete living in the city of Calgary—a great constituency, by the way.