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Originally Posted by Zeus
Ah, don't feel too bad Kuan. Better a broken tip than a hip.
I did almost the same thing in high school. I was a senior and our school team entered in a big 10K ski race without my having really ever learned to ski cross-country properly. I also broke my skis during the race and I ended up coming in dead last.
The really funny part was that the juniors raced after the seniors. I was so slow in finishing the race that everyone at the finish line thought I was a junior (the rest of the senior division had all finished ages ago), so they all cheered me madly as I came close to 'finishing'. I was actually awarded the gold for the junior division and my coach, who apparently didn't know me too well, thought that we had actually won a medal. 
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Man tell me about it! I'd say I'm happy with my result. Out of almost 1000 skiers, of which about 200 opted for the 10k race, I finished 600 out of six hundred fifty something finishers, and then there were about 20 or so DNF's. I was so over my head on parts of the course. I walked two downhills because they were 30 meters of icy single track with a sharp turns. It was like mountain biking, only no brakes! There were parts of the course where 5-6 people crashed in a row at the same spot. I got a big old bruise on my hip from one crash. Hurts, good thing it's not broken like you said.