Ready to race?

Time to race...the trails are looking great and it is about to be a sweet week of skiing fast. Tomorrow is the junior sprint race and the U23 race is on sunday. I am stoked to be racing again and hopefully I will be feeling top notch come sunday...

It was nice to see all the teams showing up in full force today, the stadium and all it's banners and flags are looking great wavering in the breeze just waiting for racers to pour there hearts out onto the trails. I know everyone here is looking to put there best foot forward over the next week and bring back many great results. I have a feeling that this year is going to be one of our best. I have now been on five U23/World Junior trips and this is the one of the greatest teams that I have seen.

I did a couple of intervels yesterday and was not feeling so snappy, I was not feeling good at all really, but today I was feeling great, skiing easy was a little easier and I felt the power in my body returning to full. Still with one more day before my race things are looking very good.

Updates over the next week may be tricky, but who knows, I may be able to throw in a few pictures every now and then. Below are a few pictures of the last couple of days... have fun and see ya later, T..

This is the small town in which the races are held...this is the whole thing, nothing more...sweet!!

Looking down the valley towards Mals, and Prad where we are living.

This is the view from the patio in our room.

looking from Prad up towards the venue, which is up in the white snowy area of the mountains in the middle of the picture.

Descending the slopes to the valley, this is a sweet road.

Hmm, I guess grooming the parking lot may not have been a good idea, but hey when in Italy you can try anything I guess.

This van did not make it out without the extra help...