Wednesday Night racing!

How best to commemorate your 2 month tele anniversary? Why dropping in on the local Dual Giant Slalom race of course. Took a sweet practice run during which I snapped my carbon pole in twain and wrapped my shinbone around a gate. Now I'm warmed up...then nothing like standing in a precarious starting shack for the first time ever next to a guy wearing a chin bar, shin guards and the worst looking lycra suit ever made...let's do this! Goggles left on top of the helmet, since, did I mention, it's dark, I carefully surveyed the course below me, sussing out that I probably had to pass the 1st gate on the right side, right in all those deep ruts. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and before I know it (but apparently exactly 29.54 seconds later) I'm crossing the line, no missed gates, no falls. Wow, frighteningly fun. Second run I shaved 2 seconds off so there's probably some room for improvement, but fun, fun, fun. As the only tele'er droppin' knee (there was some sad sack of crap doing alpine turns)I probably won too! I'd post a pic but I was going so fast they all look like a red smear...like the Flash baby!