Everyone has bad days….So I have been told at my last race. Bordercross is my favorite race to do. This does’t necessarily mean that it is my best event but it challenges me to go outside the comfort zone. Which i definitely feel too much sometimes. You can get into this comfortable mode and to do hopefully just enough what you need to do to win. However, if you make a mistake or underestimate something then this doesn’t always work out. Well, being in Boston and not being able to get on snow as much as I want definitely changes the comfort zone which can be good and bad.

This particular bordercross was big money but not too many big jumps. And in all honesty i would rather have the big jumps and not such a fast course. But I don’t have control on that sooo. The course in Tahoe was a slow start then it was like a downhill race to the finish. I haven’t down a bordercross since i injured my foot last year and haven’t been on the freestyle board as much as I wanted but I figured I would be fine. Well the second turn was the same type of turn that I injured my foot on last year. So my mind got the best of me….. all weekend. I just couldn’t find my groove.

Until race day that is. We were allowed one training run. I felt good. The first timed run….. not so good but we get 2 runs. The second run was going much better, that is until the end. I ended up too much in the “backseat” off the second to last feature and then fell on the next and slid through the finish on my back. My time was still faster than my first even with the fall but not enough to make it into the finals…… You win some you lose some.

I always seem to have a mid winter lull in my season… I hope this was the last of it. or maybe it was just because I forgot my lucky shirt…