Even as a record-tying sixth overall crystal globe slips away, Mikaela Shiffrin does not expect a return to the World Cup before the March 9-10 tech series in Are, Sweden.

The Edwards, Colo., skier, who injured her leg in a downhill crash on Jan. 26 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, gave an injury update in a video on Instagram on Sunday.

“I have been progressing well in the gym. I’m feeling better and better each day,” she said before adding that the March 9-10 World Cup weekend is still her expected return date.

Shiffrin, who had a comfortable lead in the overall standings at the time of the injury, now sits 205 points behind Lara Gut-Behrami. The Swiss skier also leads the downhill, giant slalom and super-G standings.

“She’s been stunning to watch,” Shiffrin said of Gut-Behrami, who could become the first person since Shiffrin in 2019 to claim four globes in one season.

“She’s really at such a high level of racing right now. As much as I want to be competitive with that right now, we all just have to sit back and appreciate that.”

The women’s World Cup super-G event planned in Val di Fassa, Italy last weekend was cancelled because of heavy snowfall. FIS announced those events will not be rescheduled.

Athletes are in Kvitfjell, Norway starting Thursday for a downhill and super-G before making their way to Are the following weekend. The season concludes with the World Cup Finals in Saalbach, Austria, March 16-24. Shiffrin admitted Sunday that once she realized a return to snow in Andorra (on Feb. 10-11) and Val di Fassa wasn’t going to be possible, tying Annemarie Moser-Proll with a sixth overall globe would be “mathematically, a really huge stretch.”

“It’s not really about fighting or not fighting for it, it just wasn’t possible,” she said. “Believe me, I would have tried if I remotely thought I could just simply make it to the finish of a course somewhat safely — I would have tried. It is not in the cards, yet. But I’m getting there.”

Shiffrin said she’s conducted two days of light slalom open gate training on flat terrain and tested out some light GS free skiing this week. Over the next 10 days, she hopes to increase the pitch and speed of her on snow sessions and use a variety of course settings.

“Ideally a little bit more aggressive surface that is more similar to a race venue,” she said.

Shiffrin said her injury absence has given her a chance to watch races “with kind of a fresh perspective.” She enjoyed seeing her fellow Americans A.J. Hurt and Paula Moltzan claim their respective first and third-career podiums in Soldeu earlier this month.

“That was so much fun to watch my teammates do that there. I just wish I was there to celebrate that with them,” she said.

“I for one am very excited to return in Are.”