26th August 2011 at 07:47PM

Well the last 2 days have been an experience thats for sure. Anyone who thinks we take a while running races in the UK, need only watch the Brazilians/Chileans in action at Valle Nevado...... we don't do too badly.

We started on Wednesday with first run GS, a few delays to start and some long, long intervals meant the weather had come in by the time we were meant to run the 2nd run - so it had to be postponed until Thursday morning. By this point we were doing OK i would say, Emily Evans looked like she was on for a personal best GS result, as was Kieran. Roy, even with some huge mistakes was still somehow reasonably close to the race leaders and just inside the top 30. While we didn't have any DNF's, the others looked a little rusty on the 1st run and were not placed as well as they or i would have liked.

Anyway, Thursday came and we managed to get a 2nd GS run off by lunchtime, Roy had a really good time, clocking 6th fastest on that run and ending up with a personal best result. A sign of a more to come from Roy as his fitness, technique and equipment all seem to be working very well at this point. Sadly, Emily and Kieran ended up losing valuable seconds on the 2nd run and their results showed this in the end - both making OK results but definitely not at the level of their first run times. Alex Buchanan put in a much stronger 2nd run, showing more of the form we have seen in training so far.

So, no time to dwell (we thought), straight into the Super-G.....  well not quite! The inspection, scheduled for 11.45-12.30 ended up being 12.45-1.30. Finally at 2.30pm the for-runners went out of the gate and the girls race ran reasonably smoothly with a solid run on the flats from Ellie Pocock and some smooth skiing from Thomasine.

The top 15 boys meanwhile were stuck on the lift (which had stopped) so another delay meant an even later start for the men. By this time the light was not looking great so the German men's speed team pulled out too. I think i'd lost track of time but we did get a mens race, one in which Roy scored his best points result with a very, very strong run to place just inside the top 10. Kieran and Luke also had some good sections but did not manage to carry the speed right through to the end.

And it was home sweet home at 5.20pm, with everyone absolutely knackered.

Anyway at least it was over...... and a day off today.... kind of....... as mine was interrupted by Roy's omission from the SG results meaning a nice ski back over to Valle Nevado from me to get him back on the results!!

We will now train and re-focus on the GS coming up on Sunday, let's hope it's a shorter day!!!!!!

Adios.

P.S News just in... Peter Glasgow, 7x A's and 5x B's in the GCSE's.... Awesome news and more proof that with hard work ski racing and school can go together.