Cesana..... Again.

Well, the Konigsse race is over and after 14 hours of driving (some getting lost in there) we are back at the first stop... Cesana. The race went great. Our girls finished 1st and 8th, Sara Ried, who won the race beat 2 top German girls.... at their home track. The men raced well to. Mike finished 4th (1st, 2nd and 3rd were all world cup guys who stayed home for the first half), Steve was 10th, Kieth and Jovan both raced well and made the top 25. So all of our sliders made the cut in which only half of everyone did. I got to forerun, which is the first one down the track before each heat, kind of a warning that the race is about to begin and to see how the start is acting. My runs were my best ones all week, except my start was a little less explosive than usual which could be due to training hard all week and not really pacing my self.
Our trip from Konigsse to Cesana was not exactly to plan. We usually travel in a convoy of 3 vehicles and stay all in a row. Well, Austria was in the mood for serious road work and sprinkle a few accidents in there and you have a much more difficult situation. Long and short of it, we got separated from the other 2 vehicles and decided that we are all adults, we can go at it alone. It all turned out fine in the end and I got to spend many hours driving at 160+ km/hr with porches and Audi’s as my company. It was a lot of fun, and we made great time. So, we are here now, a day of rest and recovery, possibly sliding tommarrow and then on to race training Thursday - Saturday and race on Sunday.