NOTE: Rick Lelito is missing a black Swiss army knife from the event. If you happen to have found it during clean-up please contact Adam via email: adamRterko@gmail
Yesterday the club hosted a new event. Branching out from our popular Duathlon, one of the biggest BKL and Zak Cup races in the area, we put together a trail run in order to bring racers together in the summer. Our first go with this event went smoothly, with an incredible course (thank you Keenan family), a delicious sampling of BBQ food (thanks Grillmasters Rick and Gary) and a competitive and excited group.
Here are some photos from Gary Solow:
A group photo before the start
They’re off!
Beautiful fields, wooded paths, and rolling hills
Inaugural men’s champ Brendan Copely
Women’s champ Coach Sara
Thanks to all the participants and supporters! I am looking forward to this event possibly coming back, and maybe growing more.
The trail run was only the final event of a busy week, however. I’d like to take a moment to welcome and introduce two international skiers who have joined the MNC Juniors, and who will be around for the rest of the summer: Marti and Mathilde! Marti is with us from Spain, where he is involved with both Nordic skiing and biathlon. Mathilde has joined us from her home of Oslo, Norway, right in the heart of the Scandinavian ski world.
Both Marti and Mathilde have brought some great new dynamics to the group. We are definitely humbled by their multilingual abilities (Marti speaks 4 languages!) but also by their dedication to training and new experiences. I’ve been trying to learn some new training words and phrases each practice, and finding out little tidbits of how clubs and groups overseas do things.
Mathilde working on some ‘styrke’ by towing Sara along!
It was interesting to hear that Mathilde had never heard of grass skiing…maybe it’s at least one leg-up we have on Team Norway? Regardless of how widespread it is, we did a little of this last week and it gave me some more ideas to take the exercise up a notch. On Thursday we expanded our grass skiing drills with a custom course and even more skis.
What’s more, we now have a GoPro to use at practice, which means even more fun videos. Here is a quick edit of our grass skiing session. Special thanks to Adam Glueck, another guest athlete this summer, for helping film some of this!
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