Met Ed Drake yesterday, he was a fore runner at the MK Club National and it was good to see him do something I did in the race, fall ! but his was after the finish timer but he did hit the netting, and .

Favourite line from my commentary yesterday “We have an Olympic skier in the netting!”

Next time need to grab a picture !  Thanks for supporting the MK Club National !

From Wikipedia

Edward “Ed” Drake (born 12/01/1986) is a British alpine skier. He represented Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where he took part in the Men’s downhill, Men’s Super-G, Men’s giant slalom and Men’s combined.  Drake is a four-time British champion winning the giant slalom and combinein 2008 and 2009.

MK Club National race today, a two race meeting, with Race 1 being a two run slalom, with the combined times going against podium places, and a Giant slalom race consisting of two runs.

On the slalom race, guess what?, I fell again on my first run, but still recorded a time of 23.99 seconds (faster than some others U12’s), but then on my second I nailed it and put down a 18.09 second run, which is what I know I am capable of.

So with a combined time of 42.08 seconds left me in 4th. Very disappointing, but shows I need to ensure consistency in both runs, even on those races scored on fastest run or combined runs.

What was good was the second run of 18.09 which was the fastest single run time in the Boys Under 10’s by over 1 second, and 4th best time in the Under 12’s.

Click to access SMK_Res.pdf

So have to take some positive thoughts out of today in that I am getting faster and stronger, just need to have consistency. Something to work on over the next two weeks.

On the GS race, two runs with a fastest of 17.34 gave me 46th male, or 3rd in the Under 10’s. All GS scores are calculated for a Series result, so need to see how many I attend over the season.

Click to access smk_gs.pdf

Two weeks until the next race, an ERSA race again at MK, so two weeks of concentrated training, so can improved on consistency and times.