After a wonderful four days at home with the girls, we're back on the road. We left Monday for Panorama, BC and a preparation project for the Lake Louise speed events. This is perfect for Scott, as he missed several training days the final week in Colorado and hasn't been on speed skis yet this year.
Today he did two hours of untimed Giant Slalom down Showoff (the trail beneath the lift). The snow is rock hard, but still reacts well to edging... perfect. He skied well and had his timing back by the second run. The project head, Jeff Pickering, asked the athletes to "stay off the gates" this first day, and banned the wearing of armor. Unfortunately, that's not Scott's natural instinct so he now has nicely bruised forearms. No big deal...
After training Scott "ran in" his 2009 Super G and Downhill skis. Although they have more than ten coats of wax (including three hot box sessions) he won't be racing those next week. Last year's skis are running really fast so we'll stick with them for a while longer.
Tomorrow Scott will train Super G with the BC Ski Team (untimed) then switch to Giant Slalom the second session, which will be timed. We're gradually ramping up, with more intensity each day.
We love Panorama for training, but the internet service is abominable. Scott is struggling to get just a day of work done, let alone get ahead for race week. He had 26 pages of Physics which took nearly two hours due to load time. Now, after the group meeting, we're back in the base lodge plugging away.
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