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February 23, 2006
Downhill Racing in Aspen a Real Thrill
I'm back in the saddle in alpine ski racing after being side-lined for nearly six years after blowing my knee out in the '99 town downhill. Over the past ten days, I competed in three Super-G's races, ran a total of ten downhill training runs, and three downhill races between the Aspen Town Downhill and the Rocky Mountain Masters. Finally was able to get going really fast last weekend as I was able to hang within five seconds of last year's Master's Downhill Champion as well as former Canadian and U.S. Ski Team members on a course that was nearly a minute and a half long.
Here's a copy of the racer's view perspective from the first training run of last weekend's Rocky Mountain Master's downhill on the Tiehack side of Buttermilk. I posted a time of 1:33.15 on this run, and improved on this initial training run by more than five seconds in the following day's race (which was run without the distraction of the hemut-cam). Fastest time on race day was 1:22.98 (posted by Franzie), covering this amazingly fun 1.5 mile-long course from top-to-bottom with an average speed of about 64 MPH, topping out at 71 MPH on the fastest parts of the course.
Check out the Downhill Race from my Helmet Camera
Downhill Race from the Helmet Camera
Posted by at February 23, 2006 02:45 PM
