Its been chucking it down most of the day, now snow, but worst of all I have an ear infection ! ARGHHH ! So not allowed to ski today or tomorrow on Doc’s orders ! Hope the medicines work !
Big thanks to Glen and Helene helping me at the Docs !
Great snow conditions and great GS training today.
Arrived in Hintertux this afternoon l, looking forward to a great weeks training on the Tux glacier.
Great staying at Hotel Tirolhof with amazing Gluten free food. Saturday is open kitchen night with the choice of the most amazing meats.
Will try to keep blog updated this week.
Usually it’s Prep in the hour before training but it’s Easter holidays so chill time.
Helped Ben with his first promo video. Had a great day!
A few screen grabs below.
Played for the Buckingham Rugby Union Football Club U11 in the A’s at the Banbury Festival today.
Some hard fought matches in the leagues, but we finished 2nd in Pool A1 and went through the to the Semi-Finals of the Cup. Unfortuntaley Kettering in the semi’s where just too powerful for us. (Wont mention the refereeing decisions!)
Well done to the B’s in reaching the U11 Plate Final, again losing to a strong Amersham B side.
Last race today in the SMK winter internal race series. Coaches and volunteers managed to get the courses set and for 5 Slalom runs before the slope became too busy. Well done.
Results as below.
We also ran a Kombi course, with all ages on the same course – great way to see how my times match up with the older and younger racers.
Great comments from his Coach Ben !
So after a reasonable Giant Slalom race from bib 57, I was looking forward to today’s Slalom race. With flipped bibs I would be starting 8th out of 65, but with a mid day start for the U12, the snow would be soft and a little slushy. Optimistically I wanted a top 10 overall finish and maybe a top 5 in year of birth.
Last minute advice from Tori !
Run 1 was flawless, great stability and body positioning, and super fast. Run 1 time of 37.67seconds put me in third behind Bib 24 (37.25 and yesterday’s winner) and Bib 59 (37.62).
Run 2, so I was now in 3rd position, and nothing to loose so time to pull out that amazing run to see if I could retain 3rd or maybe even move up the podium.
Run 2 was one of my smoothest and I managed to knock 0.20 seconds off my first run time, where most others struggled to make inroads in to their first run times.
So Run 2 time moved me above Bib 59 into 2nd place, just had to stand and watch 56 other racers complete their Run 2. Bib 24 smashed his Run 1 time to 35.81, but hey he is in the older year !
The wait for everyone to finishing, including a re-run for Bib 8, was a nightmare, but nobody could beat my 2nd place time 37.45 seconds. A 2nd Place Podium !!!!
Let the on slope celebrations start !!!
Podiums from SkiMK Race Team Racers today (Kayne 1st Slalom U10, Rob 2nd GS)
Thanks for the video Byron
Zac Metheringham 