School Work

Hello everybody,

Just in Lofer at the moment which is a small town outside of Salzburg in Austria. During the winter this is our main base where we train out of and travel from. It is owned by the British Olympic Organisation and is the nearest thing we have to home and a place to keep all our equipment. We are having the weekend off but it's not quite as i planned. Lots of school work for Loughborough which is a bit of a pain but not much i can do about it really and I need to keep all my options open in case of injury. Last weeks training went really well and i'm very happy with my progress over the summer. On Monday we will be skiing on the Kitzteinhorn glacier for 4 days to make up for the lack of speed training last week. We are staying up the mountain in a small hostel (haha) with no real civilization which should be great fun! The reason for this is that we can get up earlier and train before the public start skiing and then can finish early and hang about all day!!

Well i'm off to watch X Factor now but i will be in touch

Harry

Robert Poth - One for the future

A big shout out to Robert Poth www.robertpoth.co.uk and everyone at mysnowsports.com, I hope your hand is better and you are back training hard very soon. I will ask Dave when I see him and also the jacket is great thanks, keep skiing fast and I am sure you will get your own one day soon. My first races will be the end of the month or very early December. Everything looks good for you apart from of course your football team who are rubbish! Up the Spurs.

Thanks for checking my blog mate.

Good Luck

Harry

PS : Nice website Robert

Training is going well

Hi everyone just getting ready for bed now after preparing my skis. We
have been skiing giant slalom all week because the snow has been to
soft for super g and downhill. We've been getting up before 6 every
morning now so I'm quite looking forward to having the weekend off.
Probably will be going out for a couple of drinks tomorrow as it is a
couple of the guys birthdays. Anyway I will give you more detail over
the weekend when I have a computer in front of me.

See ya

Regards
Harry Brown

Europa Cup Races

In the Europa Cup race today Andy Noble finished 6th starting from bib 84 (22.86) and Dave Ryding finished 18th (23.21) great results from my fellow GB team mates. Well done boys.

Europa Cup Boys in action

Good luck to Dave Ryding and Andy Noble who are competing in the Europa Cup SL in Landgraaf on Thursday 6th November (Dave was 19th in the indoor EC SL competition on Tuesday 4th November in Amneville, France - his best EC result to date)

I will let you know about my day later.


See ya

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New Kit and high winds!

Not a great photo but I hope it gives everyone a quick look at the new kit we got last night. Skiing was a bit if a let down today with poor conditions and very strong wind. Up to 130km/h expected tonight which should be fun!!!!! Apart from that, all is good and the new clothing is really nice and warm luckily enough ! It is good to be back with the boys and everyone is here apart from Nick Robinson who is still injured. I hope he gets fit and back soon.

It is meant to be a four day speed camp but we often have to work with the weather so will be training giant slalom tomorrow (because certain lifts are not open for speed training) which suits me down to the ground as to be honest as that is always my preferred discipline.

I know this may be a short message, I'm on my phone which is a serious mission to type as well as spell words correctly so excuse me for any grammar issues.

Bye for now
Harry

PitzDULL - Valley Town

I am just finishing off my packing before heading off to the airport and then Pitztal in Austria for some speed training. We had a big family Sunday Lunch yesterday and then watched Lewis win the Grand Prix which was really exciting. I am away for seven weeks this trip which is quite a long time to be away from everyone but I also can't wait for the first races to start and hopefully get some good points quickly for the first list.

Pitztal is 3440m and is pretty dull tbh. I have just checked the weather and it is going to be about -12c all week with some light snow, it is one of Europe's highest and most snow-sure ski areas, and certainly the highest mountains in Austrian Tyrol, Pitztal's glacier ski area is accessed by an underground funicular with 10,000 stairs running along the side of it just in case it breaks down! Apres-Ski is virtually non-existant in Pitzal and there is really not much to do at all, in fact our hotel does not even have WI-FI so we will all be watching a lot of movies I guess. Still we have really early starts (5.30) so we will be sleeping plenty and certainly not partyin or drinking this close to the season. It is amazing how much time we spend hanging around airports, hotels and in the van between races. You really need to have a lot of Patience when you are a ski racer and this is a very important training camp for us guys.

Speak to you soon x