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Eastern Cup #1 @ Breadloaf

By Adam Terko on 16 October, 2014 in

Event

Eastern cup #1 at Breadloaf (Middlebury). See NENSA website link below registration and for details.

MNC Team Tent

Also, Thanks to Gary Richter/Lisa Akins we can have a separate tent for gathering and for our food table which will be next to the wax tent; they will also bring a generator and portable fire pit! Please sign up for the potluck at:

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0E48ABA928A3F85-rikertbreadloaf

Junior Photos and Update

By Adam Terko on 8 February, 2014 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog

Thanks again to Gary Solow for help taking photos at the Trapp’s Eastern Cup last weekend. There has been a lot of sickness going around so our group was a bit smaller this weekend. It is February now and everyone is getting laser-focus on the most important races of their winter in the next 5-6 weeks. THings kick-off tomorrow with the EHSC/J2 qualifier races. Then we have the final Eastern Cup weekend of the year over in NH next weekend. After that are State Championships, Juniors Nationals, Eastern High School Championships and J2 Championships! It is going to be an exciting time for all the MNC athletes participating and excelling at a variety of levels! And staying healthy by missing a race here or there is a necessary part of that success.

Ben Hegman pushing it in

Henry Harmeyer in qualifying

Bill Harmeyer getting in the zone

Parker Francis down the final stretch

Olivia Cuneo (MNC / GMVS) skied an incredible weekend with top results in the U16 category even though she is a U14

Annavitte Rand on the other side of the lens from normal!

Forrest Hamilton coming home strong

$Will Solow showing his awareness at the finish line - lunging for every fraction of a second$

Will Solow showing his awareness at the finish line – lunging for every fraction of a second

Henry Harmeyer coming home 3rd in the Junior heats (2nd J1). Notice the 4-armed skier on the right!

Forrest Hamilton after winning the J2 boys sprint

Junior Photos: Rumford Eastern Cups

By Adam Terko on 28 January, 2014 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

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.