Copper Mountain Colorado
Hello, my name is Molly. I am a first year J3 racer in the IMD division on the Park City Ski Team.
I recently got back from Copper Mountain in Colorado for a fall training camp with my team. The conditions were superb due to a huge snow dump the week before we arrived. Fall camps are great because you do not have the stress of an upcoming race and can focus purely on making improvements in your skiing. Other distractions such as school and family are non-existent. As well as being beneficial to your skiing, they are a blast, as almost all ski-related things are.
This fall camp was a great time to get a feel for my new equipment. I have gone down two sizes in ski boots, so breaking then in before the season starts is essential. This camp was only slalom because our team summer camp was mainly GS. GS can come back quite quickly while slalom takes lots of practice before reaching the point you left off at the end of last season. I feel I benefited greatly for this camp and would recommend fall camps to all.
Back in Park City, we continue dry-land. Today was below freezing and snowing as we were working out. Due to the conditions, we have been doing more workouts in the gym. This year is my first year doing weights and it has been really fun. The Park City Ski Team has its own gym full of the old equipment from the US Ski Team after they built the new Center Of Excellence. Only a few weeks of Fall conditioning are left, then ski season will begin. This weekend three resorts in Utah are opening! Solitude, Brighton, and Snowbird. The other resorts are soon to follow. Park City is busy blowing snow and plans to open November 20th.
The link below is to a video series about ski racing I thought was funny. Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/user/skirace802#p/a/u/2/xJH4ZYrLIvE
.)) Molly Leavens
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