Sweden

Land of the beautiful people. What a race these Swedes are! Amazing.

Following in the weather of the last few weeks I arrived to wind, rain then heavy snow. I think I won't see sun till Sydney... My arms are a shade of moon that I haven't seen before and I think Vitamin D deficiency is imminent.

Inawashiro was a bit of a wash out. Even though it was my first World Cup and the steepest course on tour it was a bit of a let down. Fog delays, cancelled competitions and performance below training levels were disappointing. Mixed emotions. Åre was a mixed bag as well.


Not particularly pleased with sharing a room with a dude I didn’t know, promised didn’t snore (and did) and a couple of other not so accommodating persons of general interest I try to settle in for a long few days in odd and unknown company.

Training was under rainy skies and incredibly soft slushy spring snow. Completely the opposite to what we inspected on competition morning at the top of the course by the ungodly hour of 7.40am. -7C and everything had frozen solid. Kind of scary and completely different to the last two days of competition preparation.

The first event I skied a clean complete run and was happy to put one down. Some incredibly creative judging was displayed here so even though I may have been particularly happy with specific parts of my run I honestly think the judges were distracted by bird in the sky because the scored did not reflect the performance in front of them. Now to step up the game for tomorrow, I’m so ready!!