Training Day 1 Koenigsee

Today, was my first day down the track at Koenigsee, and it will be a really fun course, once we nail the S1, S2 curves, four C's attached together in about 100m, so very sharp, and very fast, if you hit it right, you can pick up speed, if you smash the walls, you tend to lose speed. We hit the walls hard on our last run, so I'm definitely sore..

Its beautiful here, and very german, with tiny tiny little roads, which I have to manouver the sled truck on, so that makes for very interesting drives to and from the track, thankfully my navigator and co-brakeman, Heather, is amazing and we never get lost, or into accidents! I can see Hitler's Eagle's Nest from my hotel room...it was his summer home for quite some time, and the house, though its high in the mountain tops, and miles away, is rather large. We are going to hike up there on saturday, I'll have pictures to post after.

Otherwise, there is lots of down time, as our on track sessions are only 90 minutes, we take about 45 to prep and 20 to clean up, so makes for a very short afternoon filled with movies and cards and walks into the little town, and occasionally a workout or two.

As its only a training week, we get a lot more free time, and there is a lot less pressure and stress.