Tuesday, January 9, 2018

First Race of the Season, Massanutten GS 1 & 2

We're at Massanutten for the first race of the season, giant slalom. Of course it's one of the coldest days of the winter and one of the coldest days we've had in a long, long time. The temperature when we got up was about 3* with a wind chill of about -7*. Really cold for Virginia. Really cold for a race day. Thankfully the lodge is nice and warm. Bob is helping as a race official today and tomorrow, something he likes to do when the races are down here.

Whitney is racing today and tomorrow and will likely have one other GS race this winter before she goes to USCSA Nationals. I think she's planned to do the GS in New Hampshire which I'll get up for. Next weekend she starts her BX races.

Sunday actually ended up being the colder of the mornings, it was -6* when we got up. Both days went well for her but she was so much faster on Sunday. Her combined time on Saturday was 1:14, on Sunday it was 1:00.02. She was so mad that she didn't break one minute! She had a really good time racing with her friends on the Massanutten team; I enjoyed catching up with some of the parents. It was an overall small group racing and most kids were the only ones in their age bracket, a few had two or three racing. Whitney of course was the only open class woman so she added a couple more blue ribbon medals to her collection. Racing the GS was a good way to start the season. She's got her first races under her belt, on to the BX races in Maine Saturday and Sunday.

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