Wow what an amazing weekend January 18-19 up in good ‘ole Rumford Maine!! I say amazing for many reasons: we skied on a full 5km race course both days, on very good conditions. We had an incredible turnout of MNC athletes and families. We had a great team dinner with something like 30 athletes and parents. And, to boot, the many of the athletes had really strong race results!
Thanks to many people for the weekend: Sharon Henry for organizing the team dinner, Ed Hamilton and Don Harmeyer for waxing assistance – especially Sunday which were challenging / changing conditions, Gary Solow for photos, and all the parents for making such a commitment to trek to the boondocks for a weekend!
All the of the good photos below are from Gary. The few grainy and low-res pictures are from me. I apologize as there are a few athletes whose pictures I didn’t get.
Tatum, Marika and Eliza working hard in the mass-start
Forrest Hamilton off to a quick start – wearing the yellow “leader’s jersey”
Will Solow trying to find the draft
Autumn Eastman looking fast in the skate race
Callie Braun in the women’s 10km
Team dinner and sweet-16 for Tatum!
Charlie Maitland has been kicking butt in HS races and also had great performances in two long races at Rumford
Henry Harmeyer in the men’s mass-start 15km. Off to the right – in black – is MNC coach Jake Hollenbach!
Bill Harmeyer coming through the lap in the skate race.
201 is national champ and now 4-time Olympian Kris Freeman en route to victory. Amazing that our juniors in New England have such high-caliber competition. #203 is Sylvan Ellefson who recently won a National Championship in the 30km skate race out in Utah. And #202 is Matt Liebsch who narrowly missed the 2014 Olympics.
Graduate Emma Hamilton (now at Bowdoin), Autumn Eastman and Tatum Braun all smiles at team dinner
Ed Hamilton making the skis even faster! Thanks Ed
that’s me – trying to keep the klister on the skis and not on everything else
Will Solow and Ben Longenbach in the tough 5km classic race
Don Harmeyer working hard, as always, in the wax tent. Thanks Don!
Eliza Thomas got her first experience as a J2 at the Eastern Cup level
NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION (in the Youth Men’s Biathlon Pursuit) Nathanael Kuzio
Ben Hegman skiing to a strong result in the 15km classic. Not far off the times of 2014 Olympian Kris Freeman in the prior race on Saturday!
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