Sugarloaf/Sunday River

It's really hard to write about Whitney's races when I'm not there to see them. I also don't get the  post-race review anymore either.

Last weekend was the first of the Maine Mountain Series BX races. They were held Friday and Sunday at Sugarloaf. Saturday's race was cancelled because of the wind and snow and rescheduled to run on Sunday. Whitney was the only one in the Open Class on Friday but had a competitor on Sunday. She had two teammates from UMF there on Friday, one racing in women's Jam and one in men's Jam, and one teammate on Sunday. Whitney didn't have the best weekend racing. She did well on Friday but fell towards the end of the course and fell hard on her tailbone. She was still really sore on Sunday and didn't race her best. The other problem she had was her wrist. She's had problems with it before where the bones were out of place and when she fell in practice on Thursday she also hurt her wrist again. With a hurt wrist it's hard to get a strong pull out of the start gate.

Today was BX 4 at Sunday River. She said she was feeling better today, still sore but it didn't hamper her racing. She felt good about how she raced today. She was the only one in Open Class again today. She ended the weekend with two firsts and two seconds, not a bad haul.

The course at Sugarloaf was really fast but not super technical. You had to watch your line because of how fast it was but otherwise it wasn't a technical course according to Whitney. Sunday River was pretty chill, a bit narrow which made passing hard.

Whitney may get to one more USASA race next weekend at Ragged Mountain, NH. On tap next for sure is USCSA Nationals at Whiteface, Lake Placid, NY and then USASA Nationals at Copper Mountain, Colorado.