Jumping Journal: December 27, 2005

Definitely not the night I had planned by any means.  I guess this week appears that it is going to be pretty much that way.  Instead of the ususal Monday evening jumping yesterday, I spent the afternoon shoveling off the 25 meter landing hill before the cold weather set back in overnight.  You could kinda say someone left the gun on too long in one place, quite a few times while making snow on the landing hill.  Everything was very soft thanks to the warm temps and the light rain that we had gotten.  Fortunately, the warm conditions did help to make the job much quicker and easier than what it would have been otherwise.

 

Temps cooled down very nicely overnight and never did get above freezing all day long today.  Cannonball spent a good deal of time on the 50 yesterday while I was on the 25.  He raked out the track to set a better track that would hopefully send everyone more down the center of the landing hill/outrun versus having everyone more off to the right like it had been last week.

 

I got to the hill and helped with the final preps before they cut the new track.  It was by far in mid-season shape.  Seeing the hill that nice, this early in the season, is a little scary.

 

Everyone took an outrun, mine didn't turn out so well.  My mind was playing tricks on me from the very beginning and it never let up once.  I crashed on the outrun.

 

I went up for the first jump and to say my inrun position was tricked out by the mind would be an understatement.  Their was no reason for my inrun to be so screwed up but it was.  I know it was the mind fighting me.  I jumped and everything went fine until the transition as usual.  It bit me again, and down I went.

 

I headed back up for another jump and this time the inrun was better, but the results were the same.  I ended up crashing the second jump as well.  I looked at what I knew was going on and decided to pull the plug on the evening right there and call it quits.

 

There was nothing wrong with the jump whatsoever.  Like I said, mid-season conditions.  It was just my mind fighting my body.  I am getting very sick of this same ole same ole scenario.  It's SO predictable.

 

Crash