PSIA schedules no events for the presidents week vacation. Most ski schools are too busy to let any of their staff take time off to ski in a PSIA educational event. We run daytime training at Labrador for the race athletes. I took Wednesday off because the kids were pretty tired after the state championships.
Next week I was headed to Virginia and West Virginia for PSIA events. More on that latter. It was great to ski with the team at home and during the day. Night skiing is handy because it gets you on skis more often each week but it really gets old as the winter wears on. It is always a mad rush to get homework done before we head to the mountain. Dinner is usually a sandwich on the fly. Skiing at night always feels colder than it truly is. All that said, I have spent most of my life skiing 3 nights a week.
The pressure of states was off and we were just trying to have fun and get back to worrying mostly about fundamentally good skiing rather than preparing for the ensuing race. The 3 athletes that did not qualify for states could race in a New York race series called the Kandahar. It consists of a regional qualifier then a Kandahar championship. This race is open to 9 to 14 year olds that did not qualify for state championships but they all race by class (JV, JIV, JIII). New York Ski Racing Association (NYSSRA) uses this race to qualify athletes for the Piche Invitational at Gunstock NH. A trip to the Piche is not in my winter this year but is a well run and really fun weekend of racing. Anyway, Labrador was hosting the regional Kandahar for the center part of the state and I would be setting one of the courses. Of course we got almost 8 inches of small flake, dense noreaster snow Friday night making hill prep for the race and course maintenance a bear Saturday. It wen pretty well and again, I was happy to be home for 4 days. I would leave Sunday morning to travel to Virginia.
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