Friday, March 9, 2018

USCSA Nationals, Day 2

Yesterday was the snowboard slalom races. This is the first time that they've run them at USCSA so it was kind of interesting. I think most of the girls were in the same position as Whitney - they had only run one or two races before coming here. At least Whitney had quite a bit of practice running gates during her practices with the alpine team.

It started snowing Tuesday night and hasn't stopped yet. It made for an interesting race day yesterday. Here they set the gates, do one run, take a break to reset the gates then do the second run, best combined time wins. The problem was that during the reset it started snowing harder and the course deteriorated pretty fast which slowed things down. Whitney was sitting in fourth after the first run but her slower time in the second run moved her down to sixth. Considering this was only the second time she's run slalom she was fine with that finish.

I got to hang out with the director of sports communications the last couple of days. The alpine coach came out with the two teams, then left on Wednesday morning with the injured free skier. The director of the ski and snowboard program came out with the communications guy Wednesday and helped at the boardercross and slalom events then they left to head back to Maine. At least now I know who to send pictures to so the snowboard team gets some love on the school's social media.

Whitney is off today so our plan is to go watch the Nordic men's mass start (which should be fun) then we're going to go wander around Lake Placid, do some shopping/window shopping, and get dinner out. Tomorrow she's got giant slalom, then it's home Sunday.

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