Blue Mountain, PA

We were at Blue Mountain in Pennsylvania this past weekend for competition. These competitions (one Saturday, one Sunday) were part of the Mid-Atlantic Series. Although it was kind of far, it was worth it to go and get some points towards her national ranking.

Although there wasn't much competition in her age group, the race officials grouped her plus the other girl in her age group with the only girl in the next younger group on Saturday and with three other girls on Sunday who were the only ones in their age groups. This was really good for Whitney; even though they weren't competing against each other, they could race together and push themselves to be better.

All the races went well. Whitney had a pretty good fall during practice on Saturday and hurt her shoulder a bit. She really felt it in the starts and didn't get as good a start as she would have liked in any of the races. She loved the races on Saturday, she and the girl from Blue Mountain in the lower age group really pushed each other and had fun racing. Sunday was also fun, although she was in a different grouping. She ended up coming home with two more blue ribbon snowflake medals. With the points she earned this weekend, she's now ranked 12th in her age group nationally.