The Waxroom found this piece of
circulating email fairly apt.
Happy summer.
You know you’re a ski racer when:
1. You wake up when the sun
don’t shine and you have
perma-goggle tan.
2. You drive hours to a
mountain, to find the race is
cancelled.
10. You wear spandex in
- 20° weather.
11. All you care about is
when you can eat next and
how much it costs.
3. There is no such thing as a
social life in the winter.
4. You’re probably tuning
your skis instead of being out
on the weekend.
5. You cringe when you
think you hit a rock, & want
to cry from the damage.
6. You spend hours upon
hours prepping/tuning/wax-ing skis, so you live in your
basement or garage.
7. You spend Friday night
prepping skis for training
the next day.
8. You don’t go out and buy
something new — you try to
duct tape it first.
12. You spend more time on
the hill than at school or
doing homework or with
your family.
13. Your car has some sort of
skiing sticker, or your mom’s
does.
14. Your cell phone has a
U.S. Ski Team sticker on it,
and maybe your laptop does,
too.
15. You have random ski
straps everywhere you look.
16. Your room is plastered in
skiing posters.
17. You steal ski signs from
mountains.
18. You wish it was winter
year round — oh, but it is,
‘cause you’re in NZ or Chile!
game
9. You’re constantly checking on USSA or FIS for point
updates.
19. Your Christmas list is
mostly race gear/ equipment.
So is your birthday list.
20. You’d rather go on vacation to freeze your ass, than
be in the tropical sun.
Babies on boards
The Waxroom ran into Kristina Koznick on the eve of her April 10 wedding to Jason
Landa high above Larkspur at Beaver Creek. The bride to be, who is five and a half
months pregnant, was expounding on how the USSA class of 2010 will have terrific alpine genes. Besides Kristina, Kirsten Clark is expecting, as are both Jonna
Mendes and Tasha Nelson. All were members of the women’s alpine team in the
late 1990s and early 2000s. It sure could be quite a class!
MIKE IVINS/BOSTON RED SOX; USSA
OUT OF THE GATE
WAXROOM
Mac Kicks Off His
Retirement with a Win
A month after retiring from the U.S. Ski Team and
the World Cup tour, alpine racer Scott Macartney was
back on his skis April 9 at the 25th annual Arctic Man
Ski and Sno-Go Classic. The event, held in Alaska’s
HooDoo Mountains using a trailer village as a base,
combines downhill skiing and snowmobile racing.
Macartney and snowmobile-driving teammate Ty-
son Johnson netted themselves a $25,000 prize by
winning the event for the third time (they also won
in 2006 and 2007). The duo recorded a time of 4
minutes, 4.85 seconds to win by slightly more than a
second after Macartney whipped down a 1,700-verti-
cal-foot downhill course, and then met up with John-
son to be towed two and a quarter miles at around 80
miles per hour to the top of another 1,200-foot slope
before crossing the finish line.
“Close Arctic Man this year — 1 second after 5 miles!”
read Macartney’s Facebook page. “Took the victory for
my 3rd win and split $25k with my driver. Oh yeah.”
Minnesota’s Julie Thul and snowmachiner Kate Mo-
rell won the women’s event.
Participants in this year’s Arctic Man included Ca-
nadian ski cross racer Dave Duncan, American snow-
board cross rider Nate Holland, pro racer Petr Kakes
and Todd Palin. Marco Sullivan won the event in 2008
but did not race this year.
