Another early morning. 6:00 breakfast. Off to the races!
Today was very similar in terms of temperatures and again some new snow falling. We are falling into a good rhythm and have had some good fortune with our waxing. All of the training skis were prepped with grip the previous evening which really save time and grip wax proved to be a good guess.
The Alan/Alex wax team are getting serious. Alan, aka "wolverine" was given a fancy wax apron by a guy from the Saskatchewan team and he wore it with pride. Alex, aka "rhino" joined wolverine at the start area with a wax table ready for touch ups between heats.
Sprint qualifiers went very well. All made us proud. Dom was fantastic and moved up to 14th, top 1/2 of his junior boys field. Levi Nadlersmith was 3rd and Conor 7th in Juvenile (first juvenile 1 again). Elora posted 7th fastest junior girl qualifier. Ex winnipeg skier Sarah Tipples also top 10!
Heats were exciting. Levi N made it to A finals and finished 4th, passing a skier in the last 30 feet of the race. Conor won his B final which was an excellent birthday present for him. Elora raced well in her B final. And Sarah Tipples made it to the A final for juvenile girls! Dom had really bad luck in his heat, with his pole basket falling off in the first few pushes of the race. He hung in for about 20 seconds until somebody handed him a greatly appreciated but sadly, very short pole. This made for interesting technique. Dom finished the race, much to his credit.
We enjoyed some very nice down time this afternoon and tonight. This included napping for some, and a bit of tobogganing for a few! We celebrated Conor's birthday with cake and a seriously cheesy valentine's day card which served as a birthday card. We sung badly and Conor blew out imaginary flames on his candles. He apparently has a lot of girlfriends.
Time for sleep. Ben races sprints tomorrow and the rest have a recovery day and pre ski for Sunday's skate race.
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