I try not to act like a spoiled ski brat. I like to think that I'm not a spoiled ski brat. Unfortunately, that sad truth is that I am. Sigh.

When I was warming up for the TT on Saturday I had the wrong wax. I knew what needed to be changed- strip off all but one layer of the current wax, cover with something colder, take two inches off the back of the wax pocket. But when I got back to the start area 8min before my start, there was no coach there waiting to hear what needed to be done to my skis and take care of it for me. Nope. I had to do it myself. (And make a pretty shoddy job of it at that.) It made me realize how much I relied on having my race wax get taken care of for me and how rewaxing didn't factor into my pre-race schedule. Straight up spoiled ski brat attitude. And I can't wait until real races when I can bring my skis back from testing and get them rewaxed exactly to my specifications while I test or warm up on another pair of skis, yep, happily spoiled, I might as well acknowledge the fact and embrace it.

It does make me impressed with people who wax their own skis on race day. (I'm not so spoiled that I don't do my own glide waxing.) But I suppose if you haven't already been spoiled by competent and dedicated coaches it doesn't seem so egregious.