Abtenau

In Abtenau we had loads of snow and rain unfortunately, races and ski days got cancelled.

But on Saturday (January 21) we got some sweet powder turns.

Weather was still pretty good on Wednesday (January 18) we trained GS gates and super G free skiing on the race slope. I actually had some pretty good GS runs, I start to move quicker in GS so that’s a big improvement. I also had good super G runs, the race slope felt good and I felt ready for the next day, my first IPCAS super G race.

Thursday was race day; super G, 2 races on one day I had bib 12 in both. Since I had only free skied SG so far and no gates I skied the first race like a training run, I need to build confidence and my first time in the Super G gates being a race wasn’t ideal for sure. I skied safe, much to safe but it gave me the confidence I needed to get in the second race, and I skied 7 seconds faster in the second race. Yeah I learned. And it was so much fun, I like the speed and look forward to race and train more super G and get faster.

 First super G race

After the second Super G race

It rained on Thursday and that night the rain turned in to snow and the next morning the snow turned in to rain again, this gave some very bad slush puppy snow and the race was cancelled. Because of the heavy wet snow we didn’t free ski that day.

 wet....

On Friday night we had a opening ceremony with the local ski club kids, they made a great show!

Japanese guys in the back of the van....

Well the rain turned into snow again and it kept snowing that night (Friday). Saturday we had loads of fresh powder, race was cancelled, too soft. So we free skied, the snow was great and it was so much fun! (see the 3^rd video in my previous post).

Later that afternoon it started snowing again.

Saturday night they cancelled Sundays race because it was raining again. Sunday we didn’t free ski because of the conditions but we played in the snow, build DAAST (Dutch Adaptive Alpine Ski Team) .

Sunday night I took a flight home. It was a great trip, I'm looking forward to my next trip to Chamonix in less than 2 weeks. The last week at home I have been busy studying, had a test on Friday. It’s cold in the Netherlands at the moment and finally not raining J had a nice ride on my bike Friday afternoon.