Author Archive | Rosemary Shea-Cobb

BKL Wax Recommendation for Stowe Nordic Cross-cut

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 5 January, 2018 in BKL Training Schedule

Glide Wax on Tips and Tails: Toko LF or NF Blue or Swix LF or CH 4. These are cold, brittle waxes that have to be scraped while still warm. Iron in, scrape after it gets hard, let cool completely, then brush.

Kick Zone: Scrape all old kick wax off & clean with base cleaner. Lightly sand your kick zone with 150/200 grit sandpaper. Then rub on some Toko Base Green or other binder and iron it in. When it is very cool, rub on 2-3 layers of Toko X-treme cold or Swix Special Green (if you know your skis are on the stiffer side, go with more layers).

At the race site: Rosemary, Adam, Coach Rick and others will be doing the 10k race and can help you wax when finished. If you kick waxed at home as suggested above, try out your skis first. If they’re not working correctly, find the MNC wax benches (probably right out front) and add a couple of layers. We can help you after we finish racing or you can do it yourself. We will leave the wax of the day out on the benches.

Friday Foxes Cancelled 1/05/18

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 4 January, 2018 in BKL Training Schedule

With a high of 1 degree and wind chills forecasted for -10 to -30, it’s just going to be too cold and blustery to have fun skiing on Friday. Temps are predicted to be warmer for next week.

BKL Practice: Tuesday

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 3 January, 2018 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Race Blog

The Walker Building is a busy place on BKL days!

Bundle up out there and where your crazy pants with Coach Kristina and Phoebe!

Ghost Busters is always a good game for warm-up!

All lined up to practice a Classic Mass Start!

BKL Practice Week of 1/1/2018

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 31 December, 2017 in BKL Training Schedule

2 & 3 Day Skiers:

Tuesday: Classic! Although not as cold as last week, it will be cold, so bundle up! Parents, we really need a Walker Building Monitor this day to help kids warm up inside- please sign-up on the Sign-up Genius in my last post.

If you have klister on your skis, be sure to take it off before practice! Here is a link to a great video by Boulder Nordic Sport: How to Clean Klister from your Kickzone

While the ski-specific product known as “fiberlene” is great, old rags work just fine too. Paper towels will do in a pinch, but the true champion of this process are the good old blue “shop towels” available at many hardware stores.

Kick wax: Wax the night before! Use Toko Green or X-treme Cold or Swix Special Green. Anything for about 10F should work. If you can, iron in your first layer as a binder and follow with 2-3 more layers corked in. We will have wax benches out as usual at practice if you can’t do it before hand or if it needs to be altered.

Thursday: Skate! Possibly Hot Chocolate if a Parent signs-up to help make it (Sign-up Genius Link)

3-Day Skiers & Racers:

Sunday, Jan. 7: Stowe Nordic Cross-Cut Classic Race: Stowe Mt. Resort Cross-Country Center, 2km for BKL, Race starts at 12 noon, arrive at 10:30. Register by 1/05/18 on Ski Reg.

Update 1/03: Race time has been delayed to 1:30 pm start. Arrive at noon and look for MNC wax tent.

E-mail Rosemary if going: sheacobb19@gmail.com.

Friday Foxes:

Right now my weather app is showing a high of -5 F for Friday which may be a little cold for the Foxes. Let’s watch the weather and wind-chill and I will re-post on Thursday night. Check back then!

BKL Practice Sign-up Genius

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 29 December, 2017 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Training Schedule

BKL Parents: We need your help during practices! Help kids warm-up inside & get back out, take photos, make hot chocolate, feed the fires! All this helps us give your kids more of our time and coaching! Click on the sign-up below:

BKL Practice Volunteer Job Sign-up

Thank you!