PMRGCAuk Charity Ski Challenge- Better Late Than Never!!

[LizMitchell]

I am very pleased to report that I have now completed my Charity Ski Challenge for PMRGCAuk! This was delayed from 22nd June 2018 due to my sustaining a pelvic fracture a few days before I was due to undertake my challenge. In consideration of my injury I decided to complete the challenge at the Snowtrax Dry Ski Slope in Dorset over a few days, which I undertook this week.

I would like to, once again, thank everyone who kindly donated to my Ski Challenge, both I and PMRGCAuk are very grateful indeed!!

My VirginMoneyGiving page will be open for further donations up to 1st MAY, 2019. Any amount, no matter how small, will be put to good use by this much needed charity!! Thank you.

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Photo 30th Jan 2019

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

If you’d left it another day or two you could have done it on the real thing😳❄️❄️

Well done.

[LizMitchell in reply to DorsetLady]

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Good job you!!!!! You must be sooooo pleased!!!! xxxx

[LizMitchell in reply to Hidden]

Pleased to have done it at last!!! It was a big ask on my decrepit body!! 😃

[Maisie1958]

Well done you, LizMitchell x

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Well done - especially for surviving the dry slope!!!!

[LizMitchell]

Thank you. Skiing on the real stuff in Austria in March with my daughter! I will try not to break anything 😊

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to LizMitchell]

Where?

[LizMitchell in reply to PMRpro]

Seefeld in Austria...lots of lovely blue runs!!! We go to have fun and to enjoy it, not to challenge ourselves!!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to LizMitchell]

If you want lovely blue runs - you need to come here to the Dolomites!!!! And we have more sun and better food IMHO!!! And we could have lunch together - don't ski now

[LizMitchell in reply to PMRpro]

I had one ski holiday in Italy in 2013, (please don't ask me where, I would have to look it up) but it was truly amazing!!! The scenery was really spectacular and, apart from my ski pals insisting I went down an icy black run, I had a great time!! At 52 I learned to ski very late, I don't mind going fast, but don't enjoy being pushed into anything challenging! Love skiing with my 19 year old daughter because she is super chilled and doesn't mind my sort of skiing!! Every year I go skiing I think it could be my last, so always make the most of it ⛷

Where is your nearest ski resort in Italy, I will look it up? Definitely agree that the food in Italy is better!!!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to LizMitchell]

kronplatz.com/en/pustertal-...

kronplatz.com/en/planning-b...

kronplatz.com/en/brunico-br...

The third link is to restaurants and for some reason they used our village - not that it belongs to Bruneck! That is our pizzeria and square.

[LizMitchell in reply to PMRpro]

Thank you for the links.

I will definitively take a look!!

[Telian]

Well done Liz.

[LizMitchell in reply to Telian]

Thank you

[York54]

Well done to you Liz 👍👍👍

[LizMitchell in reply to York54]

Thank you

[Pongo13]

Well done. The closest I will get to skiing now is watching ski Sunday.... I so miss my ski hols. Have a great time in Austria, so pretty there. X

[LizMitchell in reply to Pongo13]

My claim to fame is that I did actually make a brief appearance on Ski Sunday about 2 years ago 😀 They were filming Snow Boarders at the dry ski slope and the skiers had been relegated to the nursery slope. I was filmed doing a very short run and on the programme Graham Bell refers to our group as beginners.. LOL

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pongo13]

Don't have to give up winter holidays - we have loads of things to do besides ski...

[Pongo13 in reply to PMRpro]

I'm working on the hub and so we may venture to the slopes in the future - but with my feet firmly planted. (He says I'll need another husband if I contemplate skiing after two major accidents.) And I quite like this hub!

[Lochy]

Well done Liz. Having skied regularly even with PMR at an easy and enjoyable level this will be first year in a while that I can’t. Knees too sore! I also love Italy and the food and the relaxed atmosphere. Will visit Kronplatz one day PmrPro!

[LizMitchell]

I only did a couple of days skiing in Morzine, France last year. The skiing was fine, as my legs have generally been OK with PMR, although I do walk every day. What nearly killed me was walking 500 metres and back to the ski lift in ski boots and carrying my skis. This year getting a shuttle bus from the hotel to the ski lift. Talk about learning the hard way! I could ski in the garden today if it was hilly enough 😀

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to LizMitchell]

We have locker facilities at the bottom of the mountain so you can leave the skis and boots there and walk in proper shoes. I managed to ski by using that offer even with PMR and no pred! If you stay in the village there is a bus through the middle and it is also only a short walk to the train station - where you get off 3 stops up the line, cross the platform and you are at the lift gates. Simples!!!!

[LizMitchell in reply to PMRpro]

Sounds perfect! Will definitely look into it for a future ski holiday. Love Italy at any time of the year!!

[Pongo13 in reply to LizMitchell]

We stayed at the hotel les champs fleuris - right at foot of lift (fantastic place). Love it there, been in summer two when Reebok challenge was on - lots of fit folk running and swimming and doing incredible things on the last leg! Great fun! Hope to go back!

[LizMitchell in reply to Pongo13]

Sounds wonderful!!