Despite the season's biggest dump over the weekend, I chose to wax up my skate skis and head out for the Alta Freestyle Nordic race with my parents on Saturday. Put on by TVTAP, it has a well-established history (in its short lifespan) of welcoming racers with atrocious conditions. At least this year was just powder, unlike last year's single-digit temps and 20mph ground blizzard. Nick and the grooming crew did as much as they could, but all of that fresh powder is only going to pack down so much. The racing was fun, a high-quality whupping for my haven't-skate-skied-in-a-month body, but more fun was watching my dad's improvement over last year's race--never had to stop to catch his breath, dropped 5 minutes off his 10km race time! Pretty good for a dude 2 days shy of his 69th birthday, and good enough to take second-place in the 60+ age division. Sick. So here's a little video from the day--thanks for being our camerawoman mom!
Now back to our regularly scheduled powder skiing...
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