Hello everybody-
Quite a few pieces of news for this blog so I guess I will get right after it. After meeting with our team doctors, medical director among others in Whistler I determined that I can not make it back in time to race this season. I know this makes my mother and our medical director very pleased since it gives my head more time to recover from my incident before risking it to another. What made the decision for me was the fact that I simply was not in good enough shape to go out and race in the next few weeks. I had spent too much time unable to work out (I was on a heart rate restriction for almost a month) so I had lost a bit of weight, not to mention the power, endurance and strength I would need to race fast. There is really little point to coming back early if I was going to come back and suck because I was out of shape, so it was actually an easy decision. Most of the other people involved had already come to that conclusion almost immediately following my accident, but I was a bit slower I guess. Head injury, remember?

My second piece of news is much more fun. I am going to commentate for WCSN! Heads up Bob Beattie and Nick Fellows! I am coming to LA to help Steve Porino announce the Kvitfjell races- DH on Friday (make up for Val d’Isere), DH Saturday and SG on Sunday. I believe the times are 10am ET for the DH on Friday and then 1pm ET for the Saturday DH and SG but you should check on the site for more details.

Since I have no idea how to do commentary I am doing a bit of homework… I looked up the actual names for all the features of the course in Norway. We tend to say something in course reports like “set up just a bit coming into the right-footer above Virgil so you come in about 11o’clock.” Which, to be honest, won’t mean a thing to anyone else out there, especially on TV. You would have to had inspected the course that morning (so you knew where Virgil was during inspection), known that Virgil is actually Chris Brigham, our head coach and known what direction you planned on going off of the jump (that is if 11 o’clock based on 12 o’clock being a straight line past the inside gate) and if that direction means more or less than you inspected.

Whew… I really am going to have to change my game plan for this gig. We sometimes us the correct names if they are common, famous or otherwise noteworthy. Otherwise the name of the person you saw there during inspection is an handy way for us to talk to each other and our coaches. To be honest, I don’t know the correct names of most of the sections of world cup courses, even though I have been to some half a dozen times. Beaver Creek, Kitzbuhel and Wengen probably have the most names we use on course reports. Probably because “Hund-schopf” (a jump in Wengen) rolls across the tongue slightly easier than “Bukkerittet” or “Orresvingen” two names in Kvitfjell.**** Looking forward to it though!

These pictures are not totally random by the way. On my way back from Kitzbuhel with Virgil we blew out our rear tire on the way to Munich.

What is humorous about that, aside from the 3 hour delay it caused, was that I had no recollection of it until I got back home and downloaded my pictures off of my camera. Then it all came back to me though, like hearing a key phrase to bring back a whole memory. Also the Kitzbuhel finish stadium, just after we inspected on race day.

Be sure to let me know what you think of the Broadcast. Cheers- Scott

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