Summer's Snow Blog: Winter Park USASA BX Day 2: Saturday 2.27

Sorry it's taken so long, life has been crazy!! Today is day 9 in a row of work and my next day "off" is April 2nd which is practice for BX nationals!!

Just a few pics from Day 1:

Here is the last paragraph of my 2nd to last post (Winter Park BX Day 1) and the recap of the 2nd day of competition:

As the next morning arrived all too soon I found out that Autumn's knee and lower leg were in immense pain. We all had waffles for breakfast (and yours truly of course made a huge mess and ruckus -- though I didn't burn my waffles!!) and then Stephen and I left for the mountain.

Stephen and I managed to go down the wrong run once we got there -- which meant I was too late to do an inspection run. I talked to the other competitors and the main thing I heard about the course is that it was faster than Saturday, which made sense since there was less snow overnight.

Stephen waxed my board and had me do some stretching before time trials. I slept on my hip and shoulder funny the previous weekend and the hot tub seemed to have (finally) made my hip feel better. As for my shoulder it was hurting when pulling out of the gates and even just while I was racing...ugh! Anyways...I was amped about time trials and then as I headed down course I realized that the lighting was sooooooo flat!! I was doing a lot of speed checking this time because seriously I couldn't hardly see the snow; rollers were popping out of nowhere!! I made it down the course alright until the very end where I washed out on the very last roller and slid to the finish line on my ass. I was really worried about the flat light...as awesome as my goggles are, I still couldn't see the snow!! They really needed to spray more blue on the turns, burms, and rollers and I don't know why they didn't!?!

Hung out in the lodge with the crew until race time and then headed to the top of the course. Thankfully they not only added blue to mark the snow but the sun came out enough so that we could see the course. The race was intense...at the bottom of the first hill Denise and I crashed, here's the sequence:

I took a nice "ass-ripper" as we call it (self explanatory) and even ripped my favourite PJ pants (bottom layer) ;(

Not to mention that my ass hurt for...well...until my next fall (stay tuned). Denise bumped her head pretty hard and we had to get back up and on course which was tough because we crashed in a relatively flat spot. The rest of the race I was in front but I had no idea by how much, I always assume the people are right on my ass. Pushing the pain aside I charged on and then when I got to the finish line I realized Denise wasn't directly behind me and I didn't know why she wasn't right behind me...turns out where I'd fallen in time trials is just about where she fell...Tib Fib....and instead of getting pow turns at the end of the day DH went down in a sled and I spent the afternoon in the clinic with her :\ She got surgery about a week ago and has something like 3 plates and mad screws in her ankle! So sad we won't be racing each other at nationals ;(