We are now done with our most important race of the season, the home carnival up at Prospect! It was a wild couple of weeks preparing for the event. We started with having a solid idea that we were going to probably have to move it to Craftsbury based on snow conditions two weeks out. Just before the Dartmouth Carnival we received nearly 18 inches of new snow and had the best conditions at Prospect of the entire year. We made the decision to host the carnival at Prospect, and then mother nature decided to play a prank on us and turn the thermostat up a couple of notches. We had a pretty big meltdown on the Thursday before the races were to begin and had less than ideal racing conditions. Even with mother nature throwing a wrench into our plans, the hard work from Steve and all the volunteers helped us to pull off two challenging and fair races!
The classic races on Friday were among some of our best the entire season. The Purple Cows managed to put 3 guys in the top 25 and 2 girls in the top 20. Shoutout to our very own Lucy Alexander who was proud to make it on page 1 of the results in 33rd place! Day 2 was an interesting event for everyone as we were not able to hold the planned sprint races. Instead we put on a very flat, and very fast 3.8km prologue that challenged everyone to push it to 110%! There were some great results from both the mens and the womens team.
Below are some photos/videos from stuff around the carnival. Being pretty busy with waxing/coaching I don't have many from the actual races, but from the days leading up to the event and afterwards.
Team skiing together after an awesome race prep workout on Tuesday.
Conditions on Wednesday were nothing but spectacular!
Conditions race morning were less spectacular...
Parents were even chipping in a hand to help get the courses race ready!
A very happy womens carnival team (+ Franklin and Jason)
Womens team happy to be on a wonderful Sunday OD ski. Note all of the new snow in the background!
Only one more Carnival left for the team this season! "Last one, fast one." - Dominic Toretto
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