October Camp

Just finished my 2 week training camp which went well, we spent 3 days at the indoor hall in Wittenburg which went really well we were skiing 2 sessions each day and got some quality training done on the solid ice, I skied well and was consistently putting down fast runs!!

We then headed down to Hintertux and trained 3 days GS in tough bumpy conditions had a few good runs but found the going pretty tough in the rough conditions after so much new snow. We did a days free skiing when the bad weather came in and made the decision to move to Reiteralm for our last days of training it was alot of work to pack the stuff up and move for 1 day but it was definately worth it as we got an awesome day of SL and GS.

In Chelmsford now getting my tooth fixed on monday then heading home to get the golf day organised, it's all coming together well with loads of great prizes up for grabs.

October 09

Getting ready to fly out to Austria tomorrow for a 2 week training camp on the glaciers, it's been a busy few weeks at home with organising the fundraiser event, training hard on my fitness, fitness tests, catching up with friends and I'm back playing hockey again for Moray Tornadoes. Played my 1st game for a few years last night against Kircaldy and it went pretty well I got 2 goals. Although we ended up losing 4-3 it was a fun game to play in, we were pushing hard for the equaliser in the last couple of minutes and I hit the cross bar which made for a tense finish.

I am asking people to pay for the golf in advance as the numbers have got much higher than I anticipated if you could either send a cheque to 26 Grampian View or contact me by email to arrange the payment that would be much appreciated.

Cheers for now

Golf Event

Here is the flyer for the golf event it's not so good quality on this page but if you double click on the image it opens in another window in much better quality.

NZ review

I finished my trip off in NZ with a series of races in Mt Hutt 2x SC, 2xSG, 1xGS & 2xSL. The series went pretty well with my best results coming in the SC's and SL's I finished 3rd and 1st in the SC's which was enough to win the ANC tour title. In the SL's I skied well scoring a 17 my best points result of late finishing 3rd half a second out. A big positive point for me was improving on the way I skied in the rutted conditions, for most of the trip I skied really well in SL when the piste was hard and icy but struggled in the ruts, I seemed to make a breakthrough at Hutt so that is encouraging to feel that the work I'm puting in is paying off. It's been a long trip home via Austria and England I'm now looking forward to getting stuck into some fitness training and catching up with my mates at home for a few weeks.

Cheers

Noel GS Cardrona

A good day of training for me at Cardrona on the ice. This is a new piste built this year.

Winter Games NZ

Finished 7th in the slalom on Sunday in the pouring rain!! It was a pretty strong field with 4 guys from the top 15 in the world starting. I had no40 so it was always gonna be tough to make an impressing with that number considering the conditions. I skied 2 decent runs but didnt really light it up I found it hard to charge at the course in the rough conditions, however my skiing is coming together and the technical points I'm working on are putting me in a good position. Felix Nueruether skied awesomely and won the race by 1.6 sec!!!!! ahead of Mattias Hargin.

Here's a nice shot heading up to Coronet Peak on one of the nice days.......there have been some honest!!!

Wanaka and Queenstown

Having a day off today the weather was stormy this morning but it seems to be clearing a bit now. I've decided to skip the GS at the NZ Winter Games initially so I could do some more training but I've got a bit of a cold so I want to shake that off by the Slalom which is this Sunday. I've been skiing well in Slalom recently and all the technical stuff I've been working on seems to be having a good effect. I had some top runs in the FIS Slaloms last week but unfortunatly I straddled in the 1st race, in the 2nd race I was lying in 3rd only 0.30 behind but I had some big mistakes, I stayed in the course to finish but was too far behind to have a good result.

Wanaka has been a great place to live and train, I've also spent a few days over in Queenstown where I stayed at a friends house, what a view to have from you're living room eh??!!

I'll update with my result from the NZ Winter Games Slalom at the weekend.