Our Journey

Hey Everyone,

We wrapped up our intense Copper training camp on Friday and our last week was by far the best and most productive.  We were able to train alongside the Swiss, the lone Swede Daniel Biveson and the Canadians for most of the week.  We set duel courses and even held a mock race one day with a cash purse that everyone chipped in for.  Klug represented well in the mock race placing second and just losing by a couple tenths to Silver medalist Simone Schoch. 

Everyone parted ways and went home for some much needed rest on Saturday.  I was able to spend a few days at home but had to pack up and head over to Europe on Wednesday.  I’m still in need of a World Cup start for the upcoming event in Limone, Piemonte so I needed to come to Austria and race in some Europa Cup’s.

Yesterday was the first race and my decision to fly over paid off, I started 33rd (once again a stacked field with a lot of the top World Cup riders) and ended up qualifying in 9th after two decent runs.  The riders in the finals had their work cut out for them as there were over 200 riders in yesterday’s race so the snow conditions looked like a war zone with craters and ruts you could lose a small horse in.

I advanced through the first couple of rounds and soon found myself facing Anton Unterkofler from Austria in the finals with Adam Smith and Manual Vieth racing for 3rd and 4th.  Anton had me by full penalty after I made a mistake on the 3rd gate from the finish in the first run.  However, he ended up making the same mistake at the very same gate in the second run and I was able to hold on for the victory!  Adam rode well both runs and took 3rd place. 

Today’s race had a little better snow conditions but that came with hurricane force winds.  I started even farther back today with the arrival of a few more good riders from the World Cup but I ended up qualifying 3rd and ended the day in 4th after they decided to cut the finals to one run duels because of the wind.  Overall a great weekend for me and a good confidence boost for the World Cup in Limone!

Zac

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