First college carnival races

I was up skiing and cheering for my daughter at Craftsbury Vermont. The Harvard college carnival races were relocated because of insufficient snow. Conditions at Craftsbury were awesome, and I had a blast skiing for 2.5 days.

Lucy had two good races, but not quite meeting her high expectations. On Friday she skied a 5k skate race, and grabbed NCAA points for 14th place. It was an interval start so she rarely saw anyone on the twisty course; but the results show racers were tightly bunched, and Lucy was just four seconds off a top ten. Yesterday, she skied a 15k mass start classic race and finished in the top twenty, getting NCAA points for 18th. It was perhaps her best classic race ever.