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		<title>Season sadly to end from injury but I’ve had some good times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austria was poor, but now off to France!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/austria-was-poor-but-now-off-to-france/</link>
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		<title>Off to race in Österreich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/off-to-race-in-osterreich/</link>
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		<title>Back to hitting training HARD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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&#8217;t rubben my groin every day I would still be out!  Finally I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/back-to-hitting-training-hard/</link>
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		<title>Fasnact  aka Car-ni-val in town!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To my amazement carnival has arrived to Brunnen!      Named &#8216;Fasnact&#8217;, 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&#8217;t really on the hunt for these oranges but still caught six or seven and enjoyed a few Glu-wines as the parade passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/fasnact-aka-car-ni-val-in-town/</link>
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		<title>Great Training but a bit of an injury blow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last week has seen some great training conditions, with fresh snowfall taking a break and cold conditions making for firm pistes to train on. It’s been awesome to vary the training hills also, as our lift passes cover 17 areas this week we went to Stoos, Andermatt, Stuckli and a place that I can’t spell but sounds like melt-ze-fruit!!   Going quite hard out on Wednesday I straddled the last gate of a GS course, with one leg going around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/great-training-but-a-bit-of-an-injury-blow/</link>
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		<title>First race cancelled but I&#8217;m back training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had my first race, sooner than expected but it was the Welsh championships, known for good points for rankings due to low numbers of racer entries&#8230; It was however cut short after the timing had broken and by the time it was replaced at 1 pm there was not enough daylight time to run the second run of the boys. It&#8217;s a shame, the races are usually run very efficiently and are a good atmosphere because lets be honest, noone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/first-race-cancelled-but-im-back-training/</link>
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		<title>Yaow!! off to Swiss land of choc&#8217;nd cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I will travel to central Switzerland for my base for the season, in the small town of Brunnen. Once again this Kiwi run team (WorldSkiConnection) is clearly the best choice for me, with coaches, training hills and a support system I know and trust well.  Training hills close by include Andermatt and Stoos, well away from the most tourist tracks which makes for a great choice for training lane space. I am still not sure who my coach will be for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/yaow-off-to-swiss-land-of-chocnd-cheese/</link>
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		<title>Searching for a team for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year I have the same difficult decision as to who to train with in the ‘northern season’ and this year’s more difficult than usual. With there not being many British run teams and the unrivalled wisdom that Europeans have of racing I always choose to train with a European run team. However with two of the teams I have trained with before evolving onto something else and my favourite WorldSkiConnection (Kiwi and Swiss run) either running too elite a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/searching-for-a-team-for-2012/</link>
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		<title>Loads of PowPow for final week in Tignes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was amazing trainnig last week, with Bluebird days and a win in timing by 1.9 seconds.  This weekend had the arrival of snow in Europe for the winter and in the last two days there is well over half a meter here in Tignes. This makes gate training impossible as it&#8217;s too much snow to &#8216;slip&#8217; away and training in soft stuff makes knee injuries likely. So Power it is!  What a Monday and Tuesday it has been. Yesterday we gave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maxslinger.com/loads-of-powpow-to-finish-off-the-camp/</link>
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