OTILLO Whistler 2024 race report
Our original plan for 2024 was to travel to Switzerland for our big race of the year, ÖTILLÖ Engadin. With summer heat and summer schedules, we just wanted an earlier-season race, and we really wanted to go explore Switzerland. We dragged our feet a bit on actually committing to anything financially, which ended up being a really good thing, because when they announced that this would be the inaugural year for ÖTILLÖ Whistler , in British Columbia, we all looked at each other and said, "Orrrrrr maybe Whistler." Significantly easier to get to from the US. Significantly cheaper overall. Still an amazing venue. And most importantly, we were pretty sure we couldn't handle the FOMO that would be involved if we weren't there for a race that sounded this amazing, in its first year. We still haven't gotten over missing the one and only Catalina race. Training went well. The weather was trending to be pretty perfect for race day. Matt and I had an amazing vacation planned