Giving It Your Best is a Good Feeling

There are some nights in our sport that just feel amazing. Nights when everything just gels together. The energy is just right, the sled is dialed in, and the driving is just perfect.

Well last night was almost one of those nights (driver error on the second run ruined it). A slight drop out of Turn 11 and a brush in Low-Point kind of set us back from a perfect second run.

The good news is that we got all the bungies for the brakes replaced and moved the handles for the #2 spot back a little bit. Turns out we'll have to move them again, but the brake handles worked just great for both runs. We're trying to get the sled all dialed in for World Cup forerunning next week. We also need to adjust the driving bungies and use our coach's alignment bar for the runners. But that's a story for another time.

Last night we had a bit of a laugh because we got the sled up to the top and two-man after two-man kept arriving. Turns out there was a race-off to see who was forerunning for the two-man races. Oh well, we wanted to focus on four-man last night anyway! The ice was nice and the track was fast.

So fast that we PR'ed, or hit our "Personal Best" downtime: 49.87 seconds. That was our first run, and as soon as we came down the braking stretch and saw the time I heard the crew behind me start cheering. Our goal is go get down into the 48's, but we'll have to do some sled work and some leg work to make it happen. We were all very pleased with the 49.87, however. I know World Cup times are a few seconds faster than that, but it was a great accomplishment for us. And we didn't even have as fast a push as we could!

As a driver it feels very good to hit that mark! Now we just need to finish up work on the sled and get ready for World Cup next week. Cheers!