That's more like it... Actually, I would have never guessed that I would have been racing at this kind of level today. I was so upset and bummed after yesterday when I knew that the body was there - but couldn't use it after getting DQ'ed after my quarter. Racing is funny, and just knowing that I had a good body yesterday made me curious to see if I could be solid back-to-back.

I definitely used the frustration of yesterday's disaster as a positive today and stuck to my plan perfectly. I started controlled, and was able to hold my technique and speed together really well to finish a best ever 5th place! I am stoked, and it's been a great start to the season: a bit of a shock for me to be honest after some tough times back in early October.

More than ever I now know now that it's paramount to listen to your body. I've been keeping the training at a good level, but so is everyone else in the world. The season is long, and jeez' its November still!? Everyone including me wants to rock da' house at World Champs, and to do that you have to keep up with your volume to last the whole year.

The World Cup field is ridiculously tight and there are so many great champions littered throughout the entire field. Next weekend could be a completely different story right? Stay with the perspective, enjoy the successes (as I did after today's great race), but move on quickly because the weekends come at me fast, haha.

It's off to the airport in a few minutes to travel to Helsinki, where our crew will spend the night before flying to the sunshine and mountains of beautiful Davos, Switzerland tomorrow. Looking forward to some sun-action, it's dark as hell up here! Cafe Klatch here I come baby (probably the BEST cafe in the world... That I've been to anyway...)

I don't know what to say, the race awesome. Our whole team did an excellent job out there today and it showed. Without a solid team around you it's impossible to perform.

Thanks for the shout outs from the crew back in Canada.

Believe, charge, take the good with the bad and enjoy the journey (corny, but true).

Peace.

Dev.

(here's a bizzaro fact: last year I was 16th and Freeman was 5th, and this year it's reverse... What are the chances of that eh?)

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