We're finally here, the weekend of the Massanutten bx races. We've been waiting for a long time for this and it's totally been worth it! According to Whitney the course is awesome. We got almost a foot of snow today which made things really interesting.
This morning I helped with registration, a small peek behind the scenes. Bob was a gate judge and had a good view of part of the course. For the second race I helped at the start. Ellen, the series director couldn't make it back up the mountain because of the snow, so I did her job.
As usual Whitney was the only girl in her age group but today she ended up racing by herself. There were four older guys who were grouped together but they said tomorrow they would put her in with them since they were only expecting three of them.
From talking to one of the other competitors, they really liked the course. They said it was the best one the Appalachian Series has had in years. I know since Whitney has been competing the courses have ranged from pretty bad to good, but this is one of the best she's been on except at Nationals.
As for that crazy snowfall. Wow! It started and just didn't stop. Early it was fun to ski in, but later it was almost too much for me. Our house lost power early in the morning but later in the day the resort was having problems. They finally shut down the chair lifts because of power surges; they didn't want to have anyone get stuck on the lifts. I'm not surprised, the wind was kicking up pretty good as well; it would not have been fun to either be stuck up there or have to use plan b to get down. Because the lifts shut down they only got through part of the second race. They are going to finish in the morning then move on to the next two races. Hopefully tomorrow will have better weather.
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