Noel Baxter's Blog: 25th Win!!!!

There wasn't much for me to write about last week in Kranjska Gora unfortunately, I missed the top 30 in the world cup by around 0.95sec with and pretty big mistake and I straddled on the 2nd run of the Europa cup race after a mistake meant I missed the top 30 flip by 0.08sec. To be honest I was really down about the 2 races and felt things just weren't going my way and didnt want to write a negative whineing post about my hard luck.

Today I got back on track and won a FIS race in Chamonix!!! I stopped off for a few days on the monster drive to Spain for the European cup finals and caught up with the Scottish team who've based themselves there in the lead up to the British champs, a big thanks to Ross Gardner for letting me stay at the apartment it's always great to catch up with folk from home and get some Scottish banter......... and at least we could suffer together watching another of Scotland's glorious rugby defeats, we really were as good as the English in that match though!!!!!

The race went well for me and was encouraging to ski well in the soft snow conditions which I have been struggling to adapt to this year. I had a healthy 0.62 lead after the first run which I managed to hold onto and finish 0.72 ahead of 2nd. I scored 13.84 which is not quite a FIS result but I knew I'd have to win by alot to make a result so I'm happy!!

Stopped off at a hotel in Montpellier at the moment en route to Formigal in the Pyrenees, I really hope the forecast is wrong because right now it says heavy rain....... We'll see. Just checked the webcams at Cairngorm and seen the huge dump of snow they've had...... Awesome news which will give everyone back home a boost for the end of the season....... I hope there's some left when I get back in April!!!

PODIUM!!!