Eldora, Colorado

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Mix of sun and clouds, starting very windy but becoming calmer, temps rising from the low 20s to mid 30s. Parallel SL on Chute with Masters. I don't know, I just didn't really have it; kind of low energy. The new SL skis aren't great at this sort of speed - maybe that's the tradeoff for becoming more nimble - but they just didn't hold as well as I would have liked. As a result, skied a bit tentative the first four runs before saying screw it and just going for it and rolling over on the last two runs, and getting 0.4-0.5 faster despite not really straightening it out much line-wise.

I ended up 6th for the day but if I had skied like that all 6 runs I'd be threatening a podium.