Well with four days of intensive slalom training under their belts the Baldy K Racers took to the slopes of Apex to tackle the first K races of the season. There were two stubby slalom races on Saturday and a combined two run tall gate slalom on Sunday.
Being their first race of the year, the team was not deterred by the strong competition from the second year K1s. Ella Pasin was the first to lay down some speedy tracks by placing 12th in the first of two races on Saturday. Nicholas Everton managed to pull off two12ths for the day. Nathaniel Larivee was ripping it up in his first run before crashing and having to climb back to a gate. Ben Myers was solidly in 15th and 16th for the day.
On the second day Ella looked like she was on her way to another spectacular finish when she hooked an arm on a gate and got spun around. She still finished and had a great second run (15th) for a 22nd place finish. Nathaniel put together two great runs to finish fourteenth. Ben looked smooth and improved on the second run to finish 17th. Nicholas put together two solid runs to place 11th, just missing the top ten by 0.6 of a second. He also received the medal for most improved first year K1.
Teck Cominco sponsors the K race series and provides beautiful zinc medals to the top three placings. They had officials on hand to hand out medals and congratulate the kids.
