Although I was really trying to avoid the trek all the way up to Holiday Valley we went for two boardercross races yesterday. The main reason I didn't want to go there was that Whitney wanted to go to the last practice of the season at Massanutten and the team picnic on Saturday morning, then head to HV. That meant a very long day for us and also a long day yesterday to get home after the races. I was really trying to get her to go to Blue Mountain again for the bx races there on Sunday, but she won out and we went to Holiday Valley. It was actually a good decision even though it made for a very long weekend with lots of driving.
Massanutten had gotten about 8" of new snow on Thursday (which cancelled the last weeknight practice) so the snowboarding/skiing was great on Friday and Saturday morning. I really wish we could have stayed longer to ski on Saturday, but the drive was still ahead of us. We left the picnic, packed up our stuff at the house, then hit the road north. The good thing about Holiday Valley is that they have a tougher course than Blue Mountain and they also have a start gate like they use at Nationals (which one of the competitors broke!). Whitney said it was worth going, she had a good time. She had hoped to finally have competitors in her age group to race against and two had preregistered but they didn't show up. Initially she wasn't too thrilled to race them (they're ranked 1 and 5, she's tied for 3rd) but when they didn't show, she was disappointed. It would have been a good preview of Nationals. Even though she had no competition, she said she felt race 1 and 4 yesterday were her best of the season. It's good that she's peaking right before Nationals. Now if only the snow will stick around long enough for her to keep working out on it.
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