I spent five days this week in Keystone training and racing in my first downhill. If any of you know me, I’m not the biggest kid so downhill can be hard. I had a lot of fun though. The course was really flat and only had one pitch. Being only 5′ 3″ and just over 100 pounds the flats can be hard. This race was a Smartwool series event, so it counts toward my USSA points. This means that anyone over 13 years of age with a USSA card can compete. On a flat hill like this and racing against older kids, I did okay. I wasn’t pleased with the results I had, but being my size was a huge disadvantage. This whole season I’ve been struggling. This season my technique has improved a lot and technically I’m skiing better than all of my competitors but I can’t find the speed I need to win races. I skied really well in all of my races this season but it doesn’t show in the results. At Keystone it was really hard because it was such a flat hill. I got really frustrated but it motivated me to work harder to prepare for the super G qualifiers that will be held in Aspen this coming weekend.

I came back from Keystone on Friday to train in Aspen. I missed the super G but I’m okay with that - I got to train on the same hill that the qualifiers will be held on next weekend. I feel that I’m skiing good and I had the fastest times for my team in training, but I still know where I can make up time and go faster. At my past few races I left the mountain with regrets and knowing that I could have skied better. I hate feeling that more than anything when I’m done with a race. Thats what I get angry about. I’m not mad because I may have gotten unlucky and something could’ve happened. The one thing I want to have happen by the end of this season is that I want to get to the bottom of the course see my time and know that I did everything in my power to go as fast as I can. I don’t care about results…wining is nice but I would much rather be second and have skied as best as I possibly can then win and know I could’ve done better. I hope I can do this in the qualifiers this coming weekend and hopefully have a good performance on my home hill.

Thanks for the support and I’ll check in from training and my super G this coming weekend.

Bobby

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