The races in France were a good opportunity to do well. I had good conditions and I felt my mentality and skiing was improving with each run, however it’s nowhere near how it should have been. My best result from the seven races this season is a 120 which is terrible, I nearly scored that at the end of my first 12 months in ski racing! The groin injury and the ankle have both been playing up and with it being so late in the season the coaches have agreed it’s time to go home and recover and regroup, continuing like this is ok but not of real benefit. It’s a shame because this last week Continue Reading...
The races in Mellau were a wakeup to the spirit of racing. I was very tentative and skied shocking but I at least managed to finish the second day. An improvement race on race is what I’m aiming for and that happened there and will hopefully continue next week as I’m off to four races in France’s Southern Alps. I’m looking forward to getting some training done in the meantime, hopefully the leg doesn’t play up too much, it held out ok to beat the German kids after the races in a footy kickabout anyway! The town next to Mellau, it didn’t smell too bad actually! 60foot penis in the Continue Reading...
I’ve had a solid week of training since the tendon hoopla and so I’m off for two CITADINES races in Mellau, Austria to get back into the swing of things. CITADINES translates as ‘Citizen’ however these races are not as easy as they sound I can assure you! There are generally fewer racers, i.e. 100 instead of 140 so it’s much more possible to get into the thirty, a big help to score points. I’ve never been to this place before but Austria’s always nice and Jomo of GB and Wilbur of NZ will be good company. Let’s get it on!
Today was my first day back in gates since damaging a tendon at the top of a quadriep. Training in the local resort that is Stoos doing some GS with Coaches Pirmin and Rory. Two coaches with one athlete, I’m in heaven!! Physio every day has undoubtebly made the recovery quicker. A massive thanks is Due to Mattias and Karin at Steffan Pollyn Physio in Schwyz, If they hadn’t rubben my groin every day I would still be out! Finally I can look towards returning to racing and I am still hoping to get maybe 15 races in by April 12th, fingers crossed. Today
To my amazement carnival has arrived to Brunnen! Named ‘Fasnact’, each week for a month a different village stages a parade in its streets with fancy dress as monsters, celebrities and alike. Brass bands with big drums make up a large proportion of the parade and they drive down the street throwing confetti and oranges to people! I wasn’t really on the hunt for these oranges but still caught six or seven and enjoyed a few Glu-wines as the parade passed through. They then have some tents which the bands continue to play at into the night, covering big hits but playing Continue Reading...