British Indoor Championships

British Indoor Championships
Xscape Castleford
19th August

And so, after the longest ski racing day in the history of longest ski racing days, Castleford held the final event of the six race programme, the glamorously entitled British Indoor Championships. As is the norm with the indoor series the acceptance list was again bursting at the seams as the countries active ski-dome and mountain racers took on the very keenest of the Dendix brigade.

In the minis Nathan Breese looked on course to spring a bit of a shock as he flew down the top section of run 1. Sadly, a missed gate three quarters of the way down, eliminated him from the competition but not before he had sent out warning signals to everyone who intends to compete with him next year. My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen consider yourself well and truly warned, this boy is the real deal.

Jordan Fellows followed up the previous day’s good form with another brace of promising runs to claim a richly deserved 2nd place. One mistake on the top section of run one left him with too much to do on run 2 and despite a super run on the second course he had to settle for being runner up.

In the male category Ashley Breese led the chasing pack in chi 1 by the thickness of a cigarette paper going into the second course and despite a pretty decent and fault free second run he also found himself collecting the runners up prize, shaved out of the winners circle by 0.05 seconds.

Joe Humfress again had to contend with a high number start time and subsequently the ruts left by the earlier athletes destroyed any chances he had of a clean run. Despite this he should be extremely pleased after posting two solid runs that will see him moving forward through the field next spring.

Man of the weekend? Well to be fair it could have been any one of the four. Nathan would have stolen it but for that one missed gate and had Ashley have held onto win on Sunday I'd have gone with him. Joe Humfress produced the best form I've seen from him so far at a race but for once I'm going to give it to Jordan for stringing together a complete weekend of future promise. I must be going soft in my old age but well done sunshine.