I've just arrived back from the Swiss National Championships in Hoch Ybrig where I placed 15th. I'm really happy with the result as I didn't expect to go through the first round and it just goes to show that anything can happen in ski cross.
2019 has set off with a bit of a bumpy start with a mistake in my qualification run at the French National Championships which landed me in 16th position in Val Thorens. You win some, you lose some. On a brighter note I've had the pleasure of visiting Villars in Switze...
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So, the Europa Cup races being held in Val Thorens this weekend were cancelled and rescheduled for January due to a lack of snow. Because of this, my team was at a loose end with no competitions and no place to train.
Then when we saw that there were FI...
That's the first Europa Cup of the season done! I managed to get 37th in the EC and 38th in the Austrian National Championships so I missed out on qualifying by a few places each time. No worries though - I knew these races would have a lot of tough competition as many...
After training hard throughout summer and Autumn in Saas Fee, last week it was time to say goodbye to the mountains in Switzerland just as they were starting to feel like home!
The last training camp was one of the best for me - it had snowed so much that the mountain...
It's coming to the end of my trip around Australia and New Zealand and despite the hundred little things that went wrong during the course of my stay, I'm happy to say that my results were better than I could have hoped for.
I've been training in Saas Fee, Switzerland with the team this week and really enjoyed it despite coming home to Les Arcs slightly battered after falling 3 metres off a wall, getting hit in the face by a volleyball, finding out my car was flat after leaving the lights...
