Maja was pretty nervous about this one, understandably so. The week of training at Apex helped but she was feeling the pressure and she handled it very well. This race was for K1 and K2, meaning kids from age 11 to 14/15. They raced two Giant Slalom events on Saturday and the two Slalom events on Sunday were reduced to one run due to the horrible weather and snow conditions.
There was 81 female competitiors with 79 actually posting runs. Maja's times put her in 47th, 47th and 39th overall for the three events. This includes all the female racers in all age groups and categories. She placed 17th,16th and 19th in the K1 group out of 48. This includes second year K1's who are a year older and have a year of racing experience under their belts. She placed 3rd,3rd and 7th out of 18 if we compare her times only to the other first year K1's. She had a great weekend and came out feeling much relieved and certainly more confident. On her very first competitive run(ever), she was in tears at the bottom because somenone had taken her skis at the start area. Her coach finally told her to get into the first pair of skis that would fit her boots. She ended up skiing on skis that were 5cm longer than hers. In the end it turned out one of the K2 girls from her own club had jumped into her skis by accident so it all worked out in the end even if it was a little extra stress for Maja. This event had a fairly high pool of talent and the Whistler racers dominated most of the events on the podium. The Coast Zone is considered the toughest to compete in for B.C. skiers mostly because of the strength of the Whistler team. Our club did have three boys place in the top ten in Slalom, and Kole Harle placed third overall in the boys K1 slalom, awesome.
Hope to post some photos and videos soon.
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