It's been great to be back racing! Conditions in the first two world cups have made it difficult to find my prior to injury form. Zagreb with +10celcius weather caused the course to fall into shambles after a few racers. Times got slower with every runner, and only a few made the second run from outside the 30 (highest being Lars at 36).
We were excited to arrive to Adelboden and see some ice on the course. It proved to be not what we expected and also fell in bad shape with hard jagged ruts which you would barely see due to heavy snow and wind. When only 37 of 70 best skiers in the world make it to the finish in the first run, you know you there's something up. Of those 30 that got to run in the second run, only 20 of those made it to the finish. WOW! Congrats to Mike Janyk for being so cat like out there finishing in 7th place. Best result for the slalom team this year, well done!
The sad note of the day was seeing teammate Julien Cousineau go down. Things are not looking good. He's on a flight home back to Canada for a full diagnostic of his knee. Speedy recovery my friend!
We're hunkered down in Kirchberg at the moment. The snow won't stop falling. We were lucky to make it through the Alberg on our drive back from Switzerland, the pass was closed due to avalanche danger shortly after we made it through.
