All,
Current temperature is minus 12 in Collingwood, so guns will be blazing at high efficiency!
SCHEDULE
We will be training SL Saturday and Sunday at 0930 on Birches. NOTE THAT SUNDAY HAS CHANGED TO THE MORNING BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE OF THE GDHL RACE. Watch the board at the National Chair for updates. We expect to have timing set for both sessions. Sarunas (Mr. Carrie) plans to be here for both sessions this weekend to shoot some more Dartfish video.
GDHL SL is now at 1:00 pm Sunday on Comet.
Jacques Reid will be leading SL training on Friday in both the morning and afternoon for those able to get a head start.
I will circulate an updated schedule for the remainder of the weekend program as soon as a few uncertainties are settled. Remember that the Snow School Adult Apres-Ski will be a week Saturday, right after our training.
GDHL
Sadly no new results to discuss, but a little extra time to practice SL won’t hurt. Attached are the correct team results from race 1 as previously circulated by Mark Reidl. Some versions didn’t have the correct totals.
SELF IMPROVEMENT
Thanks to Rob Cassels, here is a short slow motion clip of Ted Ligety skiing GS. We can’t hope to match the huge edge angles he manages, but I found it interesting to see how he gets on his new edge. If you pause the video while he is between gates, you will see he is skiing on his new “downhill” ski while it is still very clearly uphill.
FASHION NEWS
Last Sunday was rather slow for training, but Carrie was on hand in her Artemis Jacket in “gypsy” as well as her CW-X tights and Hunter boots. See attached. The artfully placed banner is not part of her outfit.
DIVERSIONS
HOW TO START A FIGHT – My wife was standing in the kitchen, preparing our usual soft-boiled eggs and toast for breakfast, wearing only the T-shirt that she normally slept in. As I walked in, almost awake, she turned to me and said softly "You've got to make love to me this very moment!" Not wanting to lose the moment, I embraced her and then gave it my all, right there on the kitchen table. Afterwards she said "Thanks" and returned to the stove. Happy, but a little puzzled, I asked "What was that all about?" She explained "The egg timer is broken." And then the fight started …
A man was seated next to a boy in an airplane. The man turned to him and said "Let's talk." The boy replied "Okay, what do you want to talk about?" Thinking he would have a bit of fun, the man said "How about nuclear power?" The boy countered "That's a very interesting topic. But let me ask you a question. Horses, cows and deer all eat grass, but deer excrete pellets, cows produce flat pies and horses have big clumps of manure. Why is that?" Puzzled, the man said "I don't know, what does it matter?" To which the boy replied "Do you really feel qualified to discuss nuclear issues when you clearly don't know sh*t?"
GREGLEETH CHRONICLES – more fictional characters:
Chelsea Lablonde – age 24, ranked 108. Started skiing and racing last year when she joined Gregleeth in the “special friend” category of membership. Appealed to the Committee about the starting order after getting bib 102 last year, although there has been some unseemly gossip about the details of her appeal. Unfortunately separated from her special friend just after his parents paid for her badge this year, and is anxiously seeking a new friend, in fear that the Board will find her qualifying friendship is no longer sufficiently special. Syndicate anxiously checking rules for end of season adjustments for DNS’s.
Dewey Olds – age 63, ranked 9. Has Club championship medals from six decades. Lives in cabin on edge of Club property that was built by his father. He sold the property to Lance, but remains in residence while Lance completes his land assembly for proposed monster chalet. Used the last piece of eaves trough on the cabin last spring when he couldn’t find his shin guards for SL. Syndicate has always made money on Dewey and confident he has one more good year in him.
JWM