Race Prep in Yellowstone
With the first distance race of the season tomorrow moral is high and excitement is building. Everyone has a slightly different pre-race routine but for most it includes an easy ski with some pickups and ski testing. Our ski testing started this summer when our skis were hand selected using extensive flex testing from a large supply of Salomon race stock. The above picture is few of the choice skis we decided to bring out west. Now in preparation for racing it was time for some on snow testing. We did numourous test to to make our race selection. The picture below is from simple feel tesxting. We were swaping out skis amongst ourselves and going for a short ski to determine which flex, grind and skis we like best.
In addition to just feeling which skis we liked better we also glide run out tests. Many teams were using the gradual hill depicted below and it prove helpful in further narrowing down our choises.
The hardest part proved to be making a final decsion. The new Salomon skis were running so well that it was very difficult to decide which ski should recieve the final race wax.
After a lot of testing and I have decided to go on a stiffer pair of my new Salomons with a cold grind that BNS just put on them yesterday. I am feeling good and confident my skis are going to be fast. Tommorow is going to be fun!
