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The Les Houches Town cup…

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…Or the coupe municipale des Houches. It a yearly Giant Slalom race in Les Houches which is free and open to all. So of course we had to have a go! It was a beautiful sunny day for it yesterday & 200+ skiers were racing. Mark took his favourite client Gracie (11), so with Matthew, her Dad, Mark and myself, we had a bit of a team going. And after the race, out came the bucks fizz from the rucksack for a quick celebration before skiing down to have lunch with my girlfriend on the terrace of the Chevanne restaurant in Houches in 15degree spring sunshine. A perfect Sunday.

Les Houches Town Cup 2008
(Gracie and Matthew - more pics)

Such good fun to have a proper giant slalom race course set out in front of you, no-one else on it, wearing a number with someone timing you and loads of people cheering you on! Amazingly I came second in my category! Brilliant! I won a medal and everything, but I was a bit late to the prize giving and all the medals had been given out to the kids already. They love medals, kids.

Every one’s a winner on town cup day, I found. To be fair there were a lot of categories. In fact there was only one other person in my category (which was probably the category for ‘older guys who should really know better’) and he beat me by 7 seconds over a 40 second course! So put like that, my second place wasn’t that impressive. But it’s all about focusing on the right details and mark and I decided it was definitely worth celebrating our 2nd places. Especially since he managed to get a trophy for his second place. Which now has pride of place behind the bar in the Delice.

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