Winter, race season...ahhh

Sorry it has been so long. My last post I complained about all the lack of snow and our endless summer. A few weeks later I find myself sitting on the couch exhausted from some of the best skiing I have ever had in the state of Vermont this early in the winter.

My Madshus sponsors have done a GREAT job taking care of me, I have a lot of new equipment that I am very excited to use in this weekends coming race...there is a lot on the line...DINNER! I have to beat Josh by 2.5min for dinner, otherwise I owe him dinner!

Another note, since my last post. I got a new job at Dealer.com...it rocks, I have learned so much about computers, the Internet and car dealerships in the past two weeks! I find that with my love for skiing and racing I have a hard time keeping a well leveled balance without a job; not to mention I work best with more! The more I have on my plate the better I do with everything. So far everything has been great at Dealer.com, I am SO EXTREMELY happy to be working there.

As for the ski season, it has officially begun! I had the Atomic Sprints last Saturday that went well, we ran out of daylight so from 4th-8th position we were not able to race...I guess this ties for 5th with three other people? The snow condition was very bad to say the least, everyone there went straight through the snow and into the gravel...I think I took two good size chunks out of me ski, and one hard digger, into the dirt...of course I did this while giving it all I had, so I had some good speed. As long as no one caught this on camera I am all set!

Sunday was the real test to see how much I improved after my summer of training. Right now it looks like a 10% improvement! Not bad, I must be doing something right, next race I will wax my skis and I will do even better. That's right, I went into the first race of the season on unwaxed skis! Boy they were SLOW! It was a great day and a great race. The snow, the grooming and trails were perfect as always at the Craftsbury Outdoor center. I would say I went out way to hard, though I didn't really think about the side effect of going out too hard until the second lap...oops! I was just so happy to be racing that I stopped thinking about what I was doing! I am very happy with Sundays result, I had a lot of fun beating Josh by a mere 5 seconds...wait...did I say seconds? I mean minutes.

Here are some photos I stole from Alex (without permission). One of the reasons I have been lazy in the updates is because I lost my camera charger :-( We all know English is not a strength of mine, so I try to post pictures to distract people from the writing.