Colorado training summary

It was great! We started out the first two weeks training at Copper Mountain with the same group that I went with to Switzerland. The snow was that perfect, hard, grippy Colorado snow that spoils me at the start of each season but makes for some great turns! I could really feel the improvement in my skiing from Zermatt to this camp. After those first 2 weeks I took 3 days off for some R&R before training with the US Ski Team at the NDS camp in Loveland, CO. The run was injected from top to bottom, and turned out to be pretty slippery! Never the less it was very good training from an experience standpoint. Now I am home for 3 days before heading off to Canada 'till a few days before Christmas!

More from Zermatt

The gear is working great! I just got off the hill from the 4th straight day of slalom. I am really skiing well and made a breakthrough today with my line. Fortunately, Atomic skis are perfect for me; no complaints! The slaloms have a small sweet-spot, but when I am in it things are rippin'! Now I am back at the hotel doing school and getting ready for dinner :) This food.... I'm thinking about applying for citizenship!! Not really, but the food is amazing. The next two days are GS, and the two days following are slalom. I am interested to see how many runs it takes to get the feel back in the GS skis after being on SL for a while. Hopefully it all goes well!

A Russian racer named Uri joined us today.  He's 18 and a bruiser of a guy.  He's supposedly the top Russian downhiller.  He's working on tech skills though and needed a lane to share.  We cycled together a bunch of times and it was cool.  He speaks pretty good english.

First day on snow today!

Great sunny day! Today was just GS freeskiing, nothing crazy. It was so good to be back on my feet, but I was definitely a bit rusty. The new equipment is going to be really great this year. GS skis are 191s and really stiff, but combined with the 150 flex boot they are killer. Getting ready to go for a run to work out the "lactic acid." :)  Honestly I don't thnk one day of skiing can do that to you, but who knows!

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I'm heading to Switzerland tomorrow and will be back on skis in two days.  I'm pretty fired up about this trip, but it seems funny for summer to be over already (it is, isn't it?).  Anyway, off to bed for a 3AM wake-up.