Ep 42 Training ups, downs and helicopters.

GOOD MORNING VAL DISERE

Another sunny day in the mountains.

With just a gentle breeze

Life as an athlete is tough

Too little training

Too much training

Injury

Recovery

Patience is a virtue

Say those who have it…..

Two of France’s Olympic hopefuls

Are champing at their bits.

The French Sprint star

Thirty-year-old Lucas Chanavat

Has been resting for over a month

So far

 with a

Stress fracture of his tibia

Even gentle cycling aggravated it

Meanwhile Savoyarde Freestyle skier

Tess Ledeux

Has resigned herself to missing the beginning of the season.

She fell in March

and is still getting headaches

It is so HARD

When the Olympics are only every four years

And the next

Is in four

months

Moving Mountains Ski

If you fancy skiing on an industrial estate

In Sussex

Moving Mountains

ACTUALLY Looks pretty good

Especially

when you are learning

To stand up

Turn

And stop

On either

skis or snowboard…

Would certainly save you

Time

And pain

Before you

splash your euros on snow….

Mentioning them TODAY

Because until the

Twenty fourth of October you get

Twenty five percent off lessons…..

Have put the link in the episode description

AND

The Special offers I have Spied

Page on website

I used to live under the flight path for

Concorde

Magnificent as it went past

Though

 you couldn’t hear to speak.

So lots of sympathy

For the people

In Albertville

Trying to

Limit the number of helicopters

Using

The aerodrome

Forty flights a day

Seven days a week

Sadly not even a fly over and land

Or take off and away

Training exercises……

Maintenance, repairs then tests…. And retests

Not surprisingly local residents

Are trying to block an expansion

Whatever Noise reduction barriers

promised

Helicopters are not quiet…

Do you remember the winter when

There were

Helicopter

Sight seeing rides

Around our valley.

NOISY NIGHTMARE !!

Glad it didn’t continue…

The Aerodrome defends itself

apparently there are half the number of flights

Than previously

they don’t fly low over houses or gardens

OR

Rather

Not lower than allowed……

Let us never forget

Well maintained Helicopters

With highly trained pilots

do need easy access to

our ski resorts

some of the

Biggest ski areas in the world…….

They will bother SOMEONE

We certainly

Hug the helicopter

When the whirly bird

Lands

In our hour of need……..

There is no easy solution

Few quick insurance tips…….

OBVIOUSLY don’t ski without ANY insurance

You can buy one for only a few euros a day

with your ski pass

If you are skiing off piste

Make sure your insurance SPECIFICALLY covers

Off piste…

This is even centimetres

on the ‘wrong’ side of the poles…..

If you have a broken neck

You DO NOT want a friend

pulling you back

Between the poles….

If you have an insurance that covers

For example

Two weeks skiing a year……..

CHECK

If you need to give them your dates

Before you leave…………

This is certainly the case for the insurance

That comes with the Black Membership

from

Snowsport England.

Read your policy BEFORE you leave home.

If you have any doubts

Contact the insurers for confirmation

make sure they put their answer in writing.

Years ago

Someone asked their insurer if they were covered as they

Were not ski professionals

Ie not instructors or similar

But skied as part of their job…

Assured that they were covered.

One had a serious injury

Their partner

Was THEN told that NOT covered
as it was while they were working.

LUCKILY they had

The advice they had received

In writing.

INSURER then AGREED he was covered…..

Believe me

When your partner is injured

You DO NOT want to be arguing

With the insurer…….

I have been there….

WAY TOO STRESSFUL.

Do have your GHIC card

Attached to insurance documents.

I spent HOURS

In ‘DISCUSSION’ with one insurer

Who was Asking for my friends GHIC number

they didn’t understand

That the Isle of Man

Is DIFFERENT

To the UK…..

Doesn’t have GHIC

So

Doesn’t have the reciprocal arrangement

So the

French Insurer

Was going to have to pay for

THE WHOLE

Forty thousand euro bill……

With the GHIC

They just pay a small percentage…….

I BELIEVE that in the small print

Of most British insurers

They will say you need a GHIC……

So

Check you have one

And that it has not expired

11 celebrations today….

The two I chose are Gumbo….. because I had never heard of it…and am always curious….it is the official state cuisine of the Louisiana  

thick stew-like soup of meat, okra, and Creole and Cajun seasonings

Sounds delicious…. would be great for a ski lunch.

Then

….. something I have heard of ……….

Feel strongly about……..

But wonder if it IS being Celebrated THIS YEAR …..

In the USA

National FREE THOUGHT DAY………..

Pause for thought

Food for thought.

Will leave you with that ….maybe don’t post your answers on social media if you are heading there anytime soon !

See you on Monday.