Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Ski Racers


I swore I wouldn't do it...... become a ski mom who wears yak tracks on her snow boots instead of skis on a day of sunshine in order to watch her kids each take two 50 second runs.  But, I did it.  The kids heard about the Cochran's Town Meeting Day Fun race and they really wanted to give gates a try.


They'd never actually had any instruction on skiing gates until the Saturday before the race, so I wasn't so sure how it would go or if they'd even like it........ The good news is that they did like it.  They both looked way better than I thought they would.  The bad news is that I dropped Hazey's rusty skis off at the local ski shop and asked for a basic tune (while also mentioning that my kid was in a race) and they gave Hazey's ski the basic race tune for ..... $94!?!?!?!?


It was pretty cool to see how these kids who ski gates learn to use their skis.  Hazey ended up getting 10th out of 26 kids on his second race, so he got a medal and he was very proud.  It's a slippery slope because now they want to do the U10 program at the ski club next year.  Does this mean I'll be wearing yak tracks more often next year?