Slovenia

I am not sure what it is about Slovenia, but I can't seem to ski very well there.  First there was last year where I managed meager results at best.  Then this year rolls around and my results are pretty awful, DNF and 31st.  Now I will say that the field is much much stiffer this time around.  Pretty much everybody is skiing at an incredibly high level.  However, I get to the finish and I don't even have to look at the clock to know that I have skied a very slow run.  All of the good feeling that I had on skis in Steamboat is completely gone.  I'm talking out the window, gone, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, however you want to say it.  It was uncomfortable.   Anyways thats over with, and it snowed for about 3 days straight there, amounting to probably over three feet, and I must say slovenia looks much cooler covered in snow.   The third race there, an extra to begin with, was cancelled due to the insane amount of snow, so we free-skied all the snow on the race hill, a welcome change.  Hopefully that got the boogie-man off my back for the next set of WC's here in Rauris, Austria.

Last night most of the world cup left Slovenia a day early and popped up to Flachau to catch the Women's Alpine World Cup night slalom.  Super cool to see our American compatriot Mikeala Shiffrin absolutely crush it for her third world cup victory of the season.  Hopefully I will live to see the day where telemark racers get to race in that kind of spotlight.  It was an absolutely amazing spectacle, very very cool.

It is still snowing here, tomorrow we will have a chance to freeski on the hill a little bit, should give me a good chance to get back to where I was.  I only have two more races so I had better shape up quick!!

Lots of dust on this thing?

I have all but forgot that I actually have a blog here, but my mother insisted, so here I am.  Finally in Slovenia after 48 hours of traveling.  I have had an abbreviated preseason due to school obligations and such so I do not have a ton of good work on show and my new skis, but I think that I will have enough to be pretty fast and competitive tomorrow.   Of course the snow here in slovenia is pretty much nonexistent, there is more than last year, but only because we are on a different hill.  Were we were last year is completely bare aside from a very very narrow strip of snow!  Hopefully tomorrow the course setter is skilled at navagating small dirt patches!

Now that I am back, expect more from me!

Cory

A little something new!

Having spent the last week freesking big stuff in Chamonix, I am wiped! So instead of typing, heres a little something new!

veldig bra!!!

Todays results don't scream awesome, but it was really really good, solid skiing for me, minimal mistakes and some top split times, make me a really happy skier, plus 10th in the final world cup of the season isn't too shabby either!  13th overall for the season, 12th in the classic, 13th in the sprint, and 17th ish in the parallel with only two starts makes me a very happy man, big improvements in all of my skiing this year!  Way better in the gates first...making jump lines, and landings...as well as much better skating and endurance we all huge factors in the season.  My offseason training with Angela Figallo was pretty clutch in making that possible...ANGELA YOUR A BOSS!!  I can't wait to get back at it!

From españa this is C. Snyder checking out!

ikke bra...

Today was not my best skiing, pretty good, but not the best.  Today was a broken day, in the first run of junior parallel, I broke a pole on the third gate, raising my season total of broken poles to five poles...leaving me with one pole...oops.   I managed to make up some time in the second run, but not nearly enough, so race number one, down the drain.   In the afternoon I had two pretty decent runs, but with two penalties in the first run, I was pretty much out of contention right off the bat, but thats ski racing so I am looking forward to tomorrow mornings sprint classic, bib 17!  Our coach Ty has the first run course set so hopefully I can take advantage of some familiar setting!

Let em rip

The Classic!

A wild day here in Espot!  The course here was pretty long, with an especially challenging skate section.  The middle was SUPER STEEP, like really really steep.  I did a pretty good job staying ahead of the course and lost a minimal amount of time in the skate to finish with a nice little 10th place.  Not my best classic result, but still a good one.  I am happy with how I skied, especially after looking at the GS split times, top 5 ski time so super happy with that.  Unfortunately, 10th in a world cup is only good enough for 4th in the junior world champs category...but in the afternoon parallel qualification, I was fast enough to qualify for both the junior and senior races, 6th and 13th respectively.  So tomorrow could be a really really really long day!  Im looking forward to racing some parallel!  Should be a ripping time!

Gonna go SHRED!!

ESPANNNAA

 I think that Spain is without a doubt my favorite race series of the year.  Although the 12 hour drive from Chamonix to Espot is quite a tough one.  I drove with Jack Harvard Taylor and Jasmin Taylor of the British team, quite the ride.  I drove for about two hours, IN A RIGHT HAND DRIVE CAR!! So strange, changing lanes and lane positioning in general was just really strange.

But now that I am here, is 60 or 70 degrees outside, sunny, and beautiful.  The skiing is interesting, but it is still fun.  We have been tuning our ski's outside shirtless, playing soccer in the street, I love it here...its so relaxed, the race hill is so nice, and its in generally amazing.

Tomorrow is the Classic, I'll be getting after it!!!