Welsh Winter Race League

 

By Emily Goddard

 

On Saturday 21st January, a team of skiers from Gloucester, Jessica Peacock, Emily Goddard, Alasdair Holbourn and Tim Dannatt took part in the first Welsh Winter Race League at Pembrey near Swansea.  It was the first of three races and is being run on the same format as the Gloucester Summer Race League, i.e. 2 slalom runs followed by 3 dual slaloms, where each skier is matched against people with similar times.

 

In the timed slalom everyone in the Gloucester team performed really well, especially Alasdair who finished 6th male overall.  Emily Goddard finished tenth overall and first female.  Jessica was fifth female and finished 23rd overall.  Tim, the youngest of the team came 2nd in age group and 18th overall, a very good performance against strong opposition.

 

The dual slalom was very exciting with some very close races.  Alasdair found the going tough but skied on the edge and gained 4 points.  Tim won all 3 with 2 nail biting performances, gaining 9 team points.  Jessica put in maximum effort gaining maximum points in both her first and last runs and unfortunately skied out on her second, but gained a creditable 6 points.  Emily came out on her first run in a brave effort to try and gain the better of welsh skier Tom Hails, but comfortably beat Kirsty Hatcher and Colin Davies.  This great performance from our skiers unofficially gave our team joint 3rd place with Snowrider 1, behind Cardiff Dragons and Cardiff Vikings.

 

Everyone agreed it was a great night at a beautiful venue in the Pembrey Country Park.  There was a great atmosphere and well worth the journey.  It has a camp/caravan site, the sea and a toboggan run – so a great place.  We hope a few more Gloucester skiers may be tempted to enter the next race. Teams are made up of 5 racers in which only 2 of them can have seed points less than 120.00.

 

Remaining dates are as follows: - March 11th & March 25th

 

The results are below:-

 

Team Results

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Sex

YOB

Class

Team

R1

R2

Best

Class Rank

Rnk Pts

Bib

RR1

RR2

RR3

Total

Andrew Watson

M

91

B

Cardiff Dragons

10.46

10.51

10.46

1

8

1

1

3

3

15

Tom Hales

M

90

B

Cardiff Dragons

11.51

11.37

11.37

4

5

9

3

3

3

14

Colin Davies

M

92

B

Cardiff Dragons

12.13

12.13

12.13

6

3

12

1

1

1

6

Jenni Thomas

F

93

A

Cardiff Dragons

13.11

13.00

13.00

3

6

20

3

1

3

13

Alice Hales

F

92

B

Cardiff Dragons

13.31

13.10

13.10

10

1

21

3

3

3

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st

 

58

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simon Watson

M

89

C

Cardiff Vikings

10.69

10.47

10.47

1

8

2

3

3

3

17

Ian Williams

M

92

B

Cardiff Vikings

Disq

11.16

11.16

2

7

7

0

0

1

8

Scott Sanger

M

92

B

Cardiff Vikings

12.93

12.69

12.69

8

1

16

0

3

3

7

Sam Maurice

F

95

A

Cardiff Vikings

16.31

15.89

15.89

6

4

32

3

3

3

13

Morgan Jenkins

M

94

A

Cardiff Vikings

16.34

63.61

16.34

7

2

34

3

3

3

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd

 

56

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Crawford

M

87

C

SNOWRIDERS 1

10.64

10.62

10.62

2

7

3

3

0

1

11

Simon Teagle

M

84

D

SNOWRIDERS 1