Season 24-25: Day 4

Man, I am aging. I woke up this morning and was not fully recovered. Nevertheless, I put on my ski boots and hit the trails. Walking in my ski boots was already hurting my feet; therefore, I started off on the easy green. As I was riding the lift, I noticed the kids from the race team practiced. They simply shifted their weight to their outside ski and bent their knee to carve.

I gave that a try and it worked, but the speed was a bit too fast for me even on the mellow green trail. I had to carve in an S shape to slow down, but then when I switched my foot, I started to skid. I spent the whole morning on the easy green trail and the pain from my feet went away. The ski boots felt so comfortable afterward. That was not the case with the soft snowboard boots yesterday. The more I tried to carve on snowboard, the more discomfort I got.

Getting off the lift on skis were so nice. I didn’t have to strap on at all. In fact, my skis were strapped onto my boots the entire time unless I decided to go inside and take a break.

I went over to Mansfield to do some blue trails. I was not in the mood to do the blacks and the double blacks. I hopped on the long green trails and continued to carve and shift my weight. Nevertheless, I was exhausted around 2:30 pm. I didn’t want to walk to my car; therefore, I decided to do another blue runs so I could drop off close to where I parked.

The left the resort at 3:00 pm. In the past, I would never leave before 4:00 pm, but I couldn’t even ski anymore. I am going to rest up so I can get back to snowboarding tomorrow.