Over the last 10 days or so since my last post, I have taken a trip down to Cortina in Italy to visit Guadalupe for a few days off, after the coaches decided that I wouldn't ski in Kitzbuhel. Then I headed over Slovenia for some training however there was so much snow on the 1st day, the only option was to go powder skiing....... tough life eh!! The next day I got some slalom training with Ivica Kostelic which was pretty cool to be training with the overall world cup leader!! On my best run I was 0.70 behind so that is quite encouraging. I tried to do some training before my race in Crna but again it was too soft and I couldn't imagine how it would be possible to race the next day. Somehow they managed to hold a race as you can imagine it was REALLY soft I finished 4th after a poor 1st run lying in 10th I skied well through the bumps and clawed my way back up to 4th only 0.20sec behind the winner Anze Mrjavla a Europa cup skier from the Slovenian team. The 2nd race was the opposite After the 1st run I was leading by 0.30sec and managed to throw it away with a mistake on the long flat section where I just couldn't get my speed back in the end I finished 4th again.
Up next after 2 days of training is 2 FIS slaloms in Soll about 40mins from here, after that we will train some more here before making our way to Val D'isere for the World Champs. I was informed last week that I will race in the GS and SL there. No Combined this year because I just don't have enough speed training under my belt.
Bye for now
