The Free Fall rollerski race cancellation did not deter us from holding our own version on Tuesday with the MNC Juniors and the St. Mikes team. The competition was fierce! Even bigger were the prizes at stake…there might have been a few hundred dollars up for grabs at the NENSA event, but with our freedom to bend the rules this race featured a prize of ONE MILLION DOLLARS…if you don’t read the fine print. Congrats to Gaelan and Rose who took home their very own large checks:
That’s right, big payouts at this rollerski race!
The weather was just about perfect…compared to what we’d be in for on Thursday. Silas and Hanna out on course.
Always a good scene post-race…
Snapshot of TT results: thanks for timing Rosemary!
Although Pennie managed to capture about 10 minutes of total footage (great clips of every skier) I figured I would put some of the clips together in an edit that everyone can check out:
Of course in an intensity week, there’s not just ONE hard effort. On Thursday we underwent a brutal double pole test. It’s the same course we’ve always done, but the brutality came from the weather…38 degrees, a forceful wind, and a pounding rain. Everyone’s first “chilled-to-the-bone” session of the year.
When it’s too cold and rainy to take photos until after training…
We were rewarded, though, this Saturday for a trip to Stowe. The workout? Start on the Stowe bike path, and ski up to the Mansfield Touring Center. From there, put on the running shoes and run up the backside of the ridge to the Haul Road and, eventually, the cabin at Trapps. Then straight down Parizo (not as fun on foot as it is on skis…) to the Trapps parking lot where the van was waiting for a recovery stop at Piecasso. The weather and scenery was not to be beaten!
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