Adventures of a Skeleton Slider - Year 3

I'm not quite sure what's happened to my start times, but suddenly I've dropped about 0.05 from my times -- I've been pushing in the 5.07 - 5.09 range for the last few weeks, but now, when it counts, suddenly it's up in the 5.13 - 5.17 range, and that's just not going to do it for me.

Anyway, after a slightly disappointing 12th place in the first race, I really tore it up in race # 2, getting a 9th place finish in the first run, and despite an 11th place finish in the second run, holding on to 9th overall for the day...a mere 0.03 seconds ahead of Jeremy White, who had recorded the two fastest start times of the day at 4.80 and a sick 4.75.

They say that all things being equal, every tenth of a second you're faster at the start translates to three-tenths at the finish.  By that theory, Jeremy should have beaten me by nearly a full second on each run, but he's yound and still hasn't quite gotten the driving part down yet.

I wish I had a start like that (he's a speedskater as well) which could give me that leeway to make some mistakes on the track and still go fast, but some folks are just more naturally gifted for speed than others (plus, he probably works out and stuff).

So after two races, I have a 12th and a 9th, with not many speed points, so I'm probably in 10th or 11th overall.  I'll need a big day tomorrow to make it into the top 8.

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