Arrived Saturday evening with the troops, all in good spirit having just had two weeks off of skis.

Sunday Training; made our way up to Grand Bois (les Houches) to set Slalom. lift passes "check", equipment "check", snow "umm it's not so bad, bit thin in places but ok (check)". So up went the course, 10 runs before lunch, brilliant morning but it was getting warmer all the time! Not good! After lunch Giant Slalom. The course was tough, bumpy and tracked to the max and this definitely set them up for todays race. Another 7 runs down completing an awesome first day of training............. "check". 

Monday Race Day; Boys GS, Girls SL. We woke up to a beautiful day and everything seemed perfect except the temperature. Yes even warmer - especially when the sun came out. At the boys race we managed to get the first run down with Luke Riddell taking 2nd, Will Wheeler 3rd Olly Eaton taking away 5th place - Oli Chalkley and Luke Maynard copied each other and came in joint 6th with Aza not far behind. Not a bad start from the boys! By the time the second run came around the snow had turned to porridge..... deep porridge and we had to abandon the 2nd run. In the girls race Alice Taylor had a bit of an error half way down the first run and DNF'd sadly, but Freya Eaton managed to take away 2nd which was awesome. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as good maybe better. 

 

Fingers crossed.....!

 

(Freya and Olly Eaton are Telford skiers joining us for the week, great to have them along with the team in Les Houches).