It's hard to believe how fast this season has gone! Tomorrow is the last practice with a picnic following after at the grill. It's been an amazing season, Whitney has gotten so much better; she's faster and stronger and much more confident. This weekend might be a good test of that. We're heading up to Holiday Valley, NY, for a boardercross race in the Western New York series. We looked at the rankings in her age group the other day and the top ranked girl and the fifth place girl are both in the Western NY series. Right now Whitney is tied in third so if they both come to the race it will be a good challenge for her and give her a preview of what she'll face at Nationals. She's looking forward to it though, finally a race with true competition.
Speaking of Nationals, the invitations have started going out and Whitney got hers yesterday. She accepted her invitation and is ready to go. I already made our room reservations but still need to book our flights. The best news about Nationals this year is not only is Chad going again to coach her but there will also be two other boys from the Massanutten team going as well. Actually, three boys will be going but one is a skier so he won't be there until after we leave (the free ski Nationals are the week after snowboarding). It will be great to have teammates out there.
Yesterday we had another good snowstorm, about 8". We couldn't get out to the slopes yesterday, it started snowing in the morning and continued all day. The storm started with sleet so there was a coating of ice underneath the snow. We went out this afternoon after Whitney finished school and the conditions were awesome. The sun was out, there was plenty of new snow, it was great. The only problem was that one of the lifts was broken and shut down so on the expert slopes there were plenty of people who perhaps shouldn't have been on those slopes and wouldn't have been normally. This is probably the last big snowstorm of the season. The weather is supposed to warm up a bit in the middle of the week but hopefully the snow will be around for several more weeks, at least until closer to when we head to Colorado.
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