Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Tough couple of days in Sunday River
Raced 2 Nor-Am Slaloms in Sunday River the last couple of days which didn't really work out as planned. The 1st day the coach got the start numbers mixed up and I skied with the wrong number, I had a decent run and was lying in 4th but got disqualified........sucks!!! In the 2nd race I was determined to make up for it, I skied great in warm up but got too nervous and tight for the race which I am really mad at myself for!!! I just didn't let my skis run enough, was holding on to the turn too long and ended up finishing 8th about 2 secs behind the winner Peter Brenna from Norway. These were 2 huge chances for me to score good but I am just going to have to put them behind me and focus on the races to come. In the next couple of days I have 2 GS Nor-Ams, these will also be good races but my goal for coming here was definitely to move into the top 100 in SL (Olympic Qualailfication) so its a real downer that it turned out like this, I will be charging as hard as I can but I don't think I have much chance to score results that will get me to the Olympics in GS.
