Today is the first race. We found out at the team captain's meeting yesterday that there are 33 women snowboarders and they're cutting the field to 16. Whitney falls squarely in the middle so she has a good chance of making the cut. They said they are following World Cup rules which means two time trial runs and they'll take the best time for each rider, rank them and take the top 16.
It snowed off and all day, sometimes so hard that you couldn't see the course from the lodge at all. The sun was also intermittently out. And the wind was crazy for a while. Quite the interesting weather day. I think by the end of it we got 3-4" of snow. The good news was that the roads were fine for us, a bit snow covered, in places just wet and I'm glad we weren't headed elsewhere. I heard a couple of people saying that one of the passes was closed but I'm not sure if it was the one on Rt. 24 or one of the ones on I70. I don't think it was the one on 24 because there was a long line of traffic that we joined when we left the ski resort.
Whitney ended up 30th. Not her best showing but considering the lack of true coaching she's had this season she was ok with it. She rode well just needed to be a bit faster. At least the course shouldn't change between today and tomorrow. We hope.
After we got back to town she was starving (no surprise to this mom) so she changed and we went to Periodic Brewing, touted as the world's highest craft brewery. The beer was good, the food ok. After we went to check one more thing of Whitney's Colorado bucket list and walked up to the train station. They have scenic rides in the summer/fall so we missed out on that but there's an old brick station and a huge locomotive in the yard. We took a few pictures in the falling snow then wandered back to the apartment to pack and get her board waxed for tomorrow's race.
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