Saturday we had a 2 man x 4 laps each of 2km team event. I raced with Brett Denney, and after the jumping we started a bit back in 16th. We clawed our way back up to finish 7th, just behind Erik Lynch and Michael Ward's team. Taylor Fletcher and Nick Hendrickson got the US on the podium with 3rd. Today we had another individual race. I skied up from 37th to finish 17th. I had a good jump and a solid race until I hit the wall going into the last lap only a few seconds back from the top ten. To have a mediocre performance and still end up in the top 20 is a great sign of how much farther ahead I am then I was last year.
Speaking of improvements, our team had another great day as a whole. Taylor Fletcher threw down an incredible race to ski from 30th into first, and then keep going to win by 20 seconds. Erik Lynch, (who's 17 and trains with me in Steamboat), skied from 27th to an impressive 7th, Nick Hendrickson was 8th, and Michael Ward had a personal best finish of 14th.
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Ted Theyerl
12/11/2011 04:11:13 pm
Adam - you ROCK!!!! Keep it up dude, Awesome skiing. I'm so proud of you!! Keep working on starting up in the field with the jump and they won't have a chance. Doesn't matter to me though, you have the tools, keep using them - great job!
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Lynne
12/14/2011 07:20:52 am
Heard you had an awesome jump today, Adam. Good job, mate as all the Aussies who are here in town say! Congrats to all! You guys are awesome!
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