Yesterday morning Brandon Ostroot and I competed in the Hoigaards/Breadsmith Relay at Hyland Ski area.  The race was a 4 by 3k relay with each of use skiing 2 legs.  Brandon went first and I was the anchor.  We won the race but not without our share of challenges.  During Brandon’s first leg he took a fall which put us in about 7/8th place.  We ended up catching up by the last leg.  About the time I was making my move into the lead I had a skier loose control from the other side of the race course and torpedo into on coming traffic.  I had about 1/2 sec to do something to avoid a head on collision because the guy had no control over where he was going.  We ended up hitting each other but he only got my leg and ski pole… it could have been a lot worse.  I picked my self up and began to chase the skiers that had gone by me while I was on the ground.  Somehow I managed to catch everyone again and crossed the line in first.  The first place prize was a tasty loaf of chocolate chip bread.

Check out http://www.skinnyski.com/racing/results/?season=2008 for results and race pictures… I am in photos #52,88, 98 and 110 in the first photo set.  Thanks to Bruce Adelsman for taking pictures so early in the morning!

Other important info:  Grant turned 9 months old yesterday and is starting to walk more and more!  My team is racing in Canada this weekend and is doing a sprint race and a distance race. Also, it snowed about two inches yesterday and we are expecting a few more inches today…looks like I will be on real snow soon.