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Posted on Tuesday March 23rd at 8:57 p.m.
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After the crazy 28 hours travel to get to Denver with all the normal delays and bad airline food Adam Dooney (Coach and friend) met me at the airport and we then travelled to Aspen-Snowmass. This is my first time to this part of Colorado so it was awesome to ride another mountain and see some new sights.
The first few days of training was a bit of a struggle with it being at altitude and my first time on snow since October. Luckily it wasn't all just training; we managed to get in a sweet powder day with a foot fresh snow on the 3rd day.
Last weekend we headed off to Crested Butte Resort in South West Colorado for a regional USASA boardercross event. I entered in my age category instead of racing in the adaptive division for this event. Getting to line up against able bodied snowboarders in competition is awesome and a huge challenge, beating them is event better!
On the first day of racing I posted the second fastest time trial. Getting to the final was great and I felt super confident before the start. I was all going well until being taken out in a crash with another rider. Oh well that's racing and was still happy with 4th.
Day 2 of racing also saw me post the second fastest time in time trials. This time I wasn't going to let the same thing happen as the day before! After smashing it out of the start gates I stayed out of any carnage and on a very fast course it left little room for passing. I was so stoked to get 2nd, narrowly missing out on gold by a few meters. Its all good to have my first medal of the season and cant wait for the upcoming world cup events in Canada and America.
Last Monday we travelled from Denver up to Vancouver then to Whistler. There is a huge amount of hype here at the moment with the Paralympics.
Yesterday we managed to get tickets to the alpine ski racing to watch Adam Hall race in the Super Combined event. Its great to see so much support for disabled athletes. The whole of Whistler is buzzing with the Paralympics on. Can only imagine how it was with the Olympics.
Looking ahead to the next few weeks..... I travel to Montreal on the 29th for my first World Cup event of the 2010 season on the 2nd of April. Its then back down to Denver and Copper Mountain for the USA World Cup and also USA nationals.
I will keep you all updated on my progress.
Thanks to all of you for your ongoing support.
Carl