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After the speed races in Pila I had to head back to Bath to catch up on some University work. Unfortunately this meant I only had a week of training in preparation for the 2018 British Champs in Tignes, France.

After Bormio, we headed back to our base in Aosta, Italy for a speed series in Pila. Initially I planned on focusing more on training Slalom and GS, however having felt really confident in the SG races in Bormio I decided to forerun my first Downhill.

Straight after January university exams I flew back out to Aosta for more training and racing. I started off with a week of slalom training followed by two slalom races in Combloux, France, then a week of GS and Super G training before the English Championships in Bormio, Italy.

At the beginning of October I started my second year at university, and only 2 weeks in I was flying over to Austria for a preseason camp on the glacier in Hintertux. After nearly missing my flight due to engineering works on the Bath to London line, I arrived in Mayerhofen - the town we were staying in just down the valley from Hintertux.

My 4 weeks camp in Chile this summer was my first ever trip to the Southern Hemisphere. This camp was crucial for me to get back up to speed in gates following my surgery before the races start in the winter.

For our first camp of the 2017-2018 season we were based in Cervinia in Italy and were skiing on the Zermatt glacier in Switzerland. A 45 minute gondola ride each day took us up the mountain and over the boarder to the glacier. 

Everyone's season is ending and mine is just beginning! This April I started skiing again for the first time after my third knee operation. In April 2016 I underwent a revision ACL reconstruction, LCL reconstruction, lateral and medial meniscus repairs.