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Masters and BK Feb 10-15

By Adam Terko on 8 February, 2015 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Race Blog, BKL Training Schedule, Masters Blog, Masters Training Schedule

The snow keeps falling and skiing is great everywhere in VT right now. Get out and enjoy it! It also looks like a very COLD week again so please be prepared and feel free to go in and warm up as needed. Classic wax guesses for TH: TOKO Blue, SWIX Blue/VR30/Special Blue. Parent sin the building please help keep the wood stoves going…Thanks!

TUESDAY – SKATE SKIING and THURSDAY CLASSIC

On Tuesday BK Racing girls can join Jennie Bender at 4:45 – hopefully some of you can stay late.
BK Racing Team: warm-up with no poles until 3:45 followed by agility drills in field until 4:15 followed 10 minutes of technique work with the coaches then off with 30 minute continuous ski in groups of similar speed. Meet back in front of the Walker Building at 4:45.
Thursday – parent wax team meet inside to help kids as needed.
Kids – start with no poles, practice robot drill and progress to full DP. FOCUS for the day is kick-DP and getting a 30 min continuous ski with games to finish up.

Masters

Tuesday – Following a similar format to BK – if you arrive early go for a warm-up and at 6PM ski 15 minutes of no poles then meet as a group with coaches on the trail in front of the Walker Building. Three training groups – Red Group – Beginner, Blue Group- Intermediate, Green Group – Advanced. Coaches will fill you in on the plan for the day.
On Thursday try to show up with skis waxed but we will have some in the building if you need it. No poles and meet at 6:15 again to split into groups. Green Group (comp team) will be doing classic ladder intervals approx. 1-3-5-3-1 followed by 10 x 30 sec sprints.

FRIDAY

We are trying to get some of you to play hooky from work/school on the afternoon of Friday 2/13 for the annual DERBY Recon.

$5 for the lift and you get to ski the Stowe Derby course. Not a race but a fun day ripping down the mountain. We can also plan a post ski stop for food and refreshments. See the attached flyer and please respond to coach Rick (rtcostanza@gmail.com) with numbers participating:

I’m in for the ski and post ski late lunch

I’m in for the ski only

Once we know how many are interested we can arrange a car shuttle.

Stowe Derby Recon Flyer

WEEKEND

Suggested race:

Adults – Silver Foxtrot, Hanover, NH https://www.nensa.net/calendar/index.php?id=1618

BK – Silver Foxtrot BK – https://www.nensa.net/calendar/index.php?id=1689

BK and Masters Update 2/4/15

By Adam Terko on 4 February, 2015 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Race Blog, BKL Training Schedule, Masters Blog, Masters Training Schedule

We will be skate skiing on Thursday. We will need to share the Walker Building with an army unit training there this week so please keep things consolidated to our end of the room.

And for the weekend….

The 3^rd Eastern Cup race of the season is scheduled at Craftsbury for Feb 7-8 and there is a BK race about noon on Saturday February 7. Here is the link describing the race details. https://www.nensa.net/calendar/index.php?id=1701
Coach Rick will be there on Saturday but is volunteering for biathlon on Sunday. So if your kids plan on racing on Sunday please be prepared to help them kick wax.
We would like to provide a big potluck for the team at Craftsbury. If your child plans to race, please click on the link below and help contribute to this potluck. Please see: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0E48ABA928A3F85-craftsbury1 . Also Email Coach Rick so we know who will be racing.
The link is being shared with the Junior Team parents as well because the Juniors will be racing Saturday and Sunday mornings. Thus, we’ll have a large portion of the club together on Saturday! It is a great opportunity for some of the BK kids to see some top competitors skiing. Thanks for your contribution.
MASTERS – an informal ski group will start skiing at 10 AM on skate skis in Craftsbury. The place will be busy with the eastern cup but all the trails are in excellent shape so it will be easy to find trails not being used for the races. Please email Rick if you will be there. rtcostanza@gmail.com

ANOTHER OPTION FOR BK

Frost Mountain Nordic Club is hosting a BK race on Saturday too. https://www.nensa.net/calendar/index.php?id=1698 MNC Coaches will not be at this one but the FMN races are always a lot of fun and well run.

BIATHLON VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

The Ethan Allen Biathlon Club is hosting NORAM Biathlon Races at the range February 7^th, and 8^th. If you would like to help out please contact John Madigan at jpmad2013@yahoo.com.

BK and Masters 2/2 – 2/8 2015

By Adam Terko on 2 February, 2015 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Race Blog, BKL Training Schedule, Masters Blog, Masters Training Schedule

It was a busy weekend for skiers of all ages with the Mtn Top Paintball biathlon, The US National Masters Championships and Craftsbury Marathon http://www.craftsbury.com/general/about-the-center/news/detail/1422/. We’ll post a link to results at Mtn Top as soon as it’s up. This week we are back to our normal time and place at the range and just like last week it’d going to be quite cold. More snow is on the way (some schools are already canceling for today).

Tuesday – BK and Masters will classic

Thursday – BK and Masters will skate

Saturday – There will be a BK race at Craftsbury – more info yo be posted later today.

The Ethan Allen Biathlon Club is also hosting a biathlon Nor Am Event on both Saturdaya and Sunday. They need volunteers so if you want to learn more about biathlon and help out contact John Madigan at eabiathlon@gmail.com.

Masters – Craftsbury Update

By Adam Terko on 30 January, 2015 in Masters Blog, Masters Training Schedule

COLD!!!!!-

Dress warm warm. Sam’s has been removed from the course to keep us out of the wind. We’ll take Bailey Hazen back to Ruthies instead.

Wax – use your coldest glide wax in the box. Scrape and Brush well. Binder – TOKO Green, SWIX VG35 or something similar. Thin layer ironed in tonight.

Finding us in the AM: We are set up in the wax room under the lodge because we didn’t want Murray and Peter to get cold. Plan is to start testing with TOKO X-Cold kick wax and adjust from there. Other options if you want to put something on tonight: Swix special green, Rode green.

2-4 inches of new snow so far here and the temps are dropping. Groomers will hit the trails in the early AM and feel the tracks will set up nice and firm by race time.

GOOD LUCK!!

Masters – 1/29

By Adam Terko on 29 January, 2015 in Masters Blog, Masters Training Schedule

Today is the first race of US National Masters Championships at Craftsbury. We will be testing kick wax on Friday and post our recommendatio on the blog by 3 PM. On Saturday Morning look for the MNC Tent. If everything works out we will have it set up in the lower field near the Yurt and garage. Keep on on the Craftsbury website too just in case the race is delayed due low temps.