Alpine PT in This Year's Telemark Challenge - by Brace Hayden

Special thanks for this blog post to our Tele team’s coach and spokesperson, Brace Hayden.

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Let’s Hit The Ice!

Alpine Physical Therapy has once again entered the Telemark Challenge, this year as “Team Glu-TELE -Maximus.” They quickly leaped from 11th place to 5th place in the ranks this week. Perhaps it was due to the shift of having our two prior weeks of ‘Team Glup-TELE-Minimus’.

We fielded a whole team of four telemark racers for one night. Two more heated races to go. The edges have been sharpened, the skis have been waxed and the Alpine’rs are ready to HIT THE ICE.
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We’re proud to be a part of the 30th consecutive year the Missoula Telemark Challenge has been in the Telemark races. The historically, superlative and awesome word is Missoula now has the longest running Telemark competition in the nation.

Pre-race dynamic stretches

Strong start at the starting gate.

Action shot of 'gate crushing' in proper telemark racing stance 

Willy Welzenbach attempting to demonstrate his "experimental" new telemark race turn after watching David Hobbs (the #1 racer) go by. 

Alpine’s physical therapists will be offering the telemark racers free sports injury consults at the races on Thursday, March 7th.
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Stay tuned for updates on our standings and whether we’ve got the backside to keep “Maximus” in our name!