McKennis strong in season’s 1st training run

By jon mitchell

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta —All of the nervous emotions Alice McKennis was feeling Tuesday morning turned into an emotional high during her first World Cup training run in more than a year. The Glenwood Springs native, making her first World Cup training run since a debilitating leg injury in March of 2013, finished fourth in a world-wide field during initial preparations for this weekend’s events at Lake Louise Ski Resort. “You’re always nervous for the first training run of the year, and doubly I haven’t done it in a long time,” McKennis said after her run. “I didn’t really believe it …

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