Been based in Slovenia since coming out after my Xmas break, I've been training mostly in Petzen which is in Austria but we live right next to the border. I also had a couple of FIS races there last week which didn't go as well as I had hoped I finished 9th in the first one then straddled in the 2nd race. The field was really strong with Ivica Kostelic using the race as a warm up for the Zagreb world cup, however even though he had won the previous world cup he could only manage 3rd!!! Lars Mhyre won the race just before heading down to Zagreb and skiing from start no 70 to 8th!!! Pretty impressive!!
The BARSC championships were also down in Petzen so there were loads of Brits around which was great to catch up with some old mates.... all of whom are now coaches.... makes me feel old. I foreran the SuperG which was fun.
I've been doing alot of training this week and working on tweaking my equipment a bit to better suit me, I've been trying to get the new model of slalom skis from Rossignol but haven't had much luck, all the top guys on Rossi say they are awesome so I'm desperate to get my hands on some. For the moment I have found an older model that works really well when the course is set with short distance between the gates because thats what I've been struggling alot with recently but with the new set up I reckon I have it sussed.
Got a couple of FIS SuperG's and a combined race at Kope in Slovenia its a reasonably mellow hill to get myself back into the speed events which I have really been enjoying to train this week.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Cheers
Noel
