I made it out on the trails today, and it was VERY cold. I skied around most of the courses that we will race on next week. I also got to watch the US biathlon juniors compete for the World Junior Championship Team spots. Did you know that all the biathlon coaches agree to use the same wax in qualification races like this so that every kid has an equal chance of making the team, regardless of their coaching support? I think that is pretty cool.
Archive for December, 2008
Kincaid
Posted: Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Posted: Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Over Christmas, Bryan and I both caught a cold and missed some training. Then we flew to Anchorage, Alaska on Friday (12/26). Within the next 48 hours, everyone on the CXC team (except Jo Jo) was completely taken out by some bug. We are still debating whether the bug is food poisoning or a flu-like virus. I spent 48 hours in my bed with aches and fever like symptoms. Others were reported to have thrown-up quite a bit. Fortunately, the sickness only lasted about 24 hours. Unfortunately, it is awful. Tomorrow, I hope to get out on the ski trails for the first time this week. I will try to get some pictures of beautiful, Kincaid Park.
Merry Christmas.
Posted: Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone at the XC Ski Alliance.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Classic Sprint.
Posted: Saturday, December 13th, 2008Well, my first sprint of the year went pretty well. It was a classic sprint and it was snowing hard. Almost everyone decided that double poling the course was the fastest and it showed. The top 6 women all used skate skis and every guy used skate skis in the heats as well. Garrott really put the hammer down in qualifying, because he was angry he fell in the skate sprint qualifying last week. He ended up qualifying 1st and ended the day in 5th. Brian Gregg also had a decent qualifying round and ended in 21st. It was a bummer he was in the same heat as Garrott and was not able to advance out of the quarters. The same went with all the rest of us. Caitlin, JoJo, Heather, and Kristina all made the heats but were knocked out in the quarters. I ended my qualifying round in 22nd just behind Gregg. I was happy with that as well as how my heat went. With all the new snow falling it was pretty hard to pass out there and I was in 5th for most of my heat before ending in 4th. All and all, it was a pretty good first sprint race for me. Now we are waiting around to race the final race of this early season campaign. It is a 15km and 10km classic race slated to start at 5pm under the lights. It is still snowing and supposed to drop in temperature all day. Some are worried that it might actually be to cold to race so we will wait and see. Check out all the sweet pictures Maria took of the sprint race on the post below!