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Summer Training Camp<br />
— 2002 —<br />
Max Rankin<br />
H<br />
aving skied since <strong>the</strong> age of three with my family, I was extremely excited<br />
when <strong>the</strong> opportunity of <strong>the</strong> D.H.O summer camp came up. My family and I<br />
go to Wengen every year and so <strong>the</strong> prospect of going somewhere different<br />
was fantastic.<br />
As I didn't know anyone else who was going on <strong>the</strong> course and, because I had not done any proper racing before, inevitably I was<br />
quite nervous. However, everyone <strong>the</strong>re was extremely nice and it didn't matter that I wasn't as experienced as <strong>the</strong>m as <strong>the</strong><br />
instructor was very good and he taught me a lot.<br />
There was about three hours skiing every morning, and <strong>the</strong>n we ei<strong>the</strong>r had lunch up <strong>the</strong> mountain or we went back to <strong>the</strong> hotel in<br />
<strong>the</strong> village. After lunch <strong>the</strong>re was 1-2 hours of fitness training with <strong>the</strong> instructor, and <strong>the</strong>n we were free to go and do what we<br />
wanted. We ei<strong>the</strong>r went down to <strong>the</strong> village, played tennis or <strong>the</strong> trainers had organised something for us.<br />
The hotel was good and <strong>the</strong> house mo<strong>the</strong>r (Sarah Iloyle) was very friendly. After being slightly apprehensive about going, by <strong>the</strong><br />
end of <strong>the</strong> camp I couldn't wait until <strong>the</strong> next year.<br />
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