Silver and Bronze

The first two FIBT races of the season for me were in Igls, Austria- two Europa Cup races.  In bobsled, there are three circuits of racing, the America's Cup, the Europa Cup, and the World Cup.  Each circuit is very competitive, but World Cup is the highest level of all the circuits.  The Europa Cup is a very competitive circuit- as many of the pilots from World Cup compete on it to gain some extra points before the season starts and to get more runs on certain tracks.  For my teammate Jazmine Fenlator and I, we were competing in Igls to do just that- get more points and get more experience, as we are both very young in our careers as pilots.  

The first day of races, I won a bronze medal and was only .03 away from the gold- .03!  Such a crazy small margin, but I was happy with the result, as I had the fastest down time and push time the second run. Day 2, I finished in silver, but it was a less satisfying day.  Although I once again had the fastest push times with Katie Eberling, I was disappointed in my runs.  Despite the outcome of a medal, I still wanted to have better runs.

That's the way it goes sometimes though as a bobsled pilot, some days you can have great runs and end up lower in the rankings, other days you have horrible runs and end up moving up in the world- crazy how that works...but I'm learning- that's bobsled!