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Junior Pics: Eastern Cup Finals

By Adam Terko on 18 February, 2014 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog

Pictures from this past weekend of racing in New Hampshire!

Will Solow in the classic

Will Solow duking it out with a Stratton athlete

Forrest en route to victory in the 5km classic

Olivia Cuneo had another great weekend

Ed Hamilton – wax tech, father, and RACER this past weeekend!

Charlie Cobb with good balance

Amy Bruce heads out on course

Ben Carnahan

Ben Longenbach

Forrest

Eliza Thomas

Junior Photos

By Adam Terko on 5 January, 2014 in Junior Blog

Well we had a beautiful day of skiing at Sleepy Hollow this past Monday. It is nice to see the sun shining but I’m still looking for a nice snowstorm to open up more of our local trail networks. We were joined by approximately 100 skiers from CVU and Essex HS on the ~1km of manmade snow. We did our best to classic ski but the ice and crowds made it difficult. We ended up doing some fun team-building games and skill building drills. Below are pictures of a balance and coordination drill: while coasting down a gradual hill, remove one of your skis and twirl it over your head, then put it back on!

MNC graduate (sophomore at St Olaf College) Liam John and younger bro Ethan

Chloe Lemmel-Hay from Essex getting ready to remove her ski. What sane person would ever do that?!

Greg Burt getting the twirl done!

Ethan John and Sam Longenbach (MNC / CVU alum, now a freshman at St Olaf)

Junior Photos

By Adam Terko on 29 December, 2013 in Junior Blog

The race season kicked off last Saturday with many of our MNC Juniors participating in the opening Eastern Cup sprint race at Craftsbury. Highlights included a lot of 1st-timers getting their first taste of high-level racing. Henry Harmeyer finished 2nd in the U20 men’s heats and Forrest Hamilton won the U16 men’s heats in a photo finish ahead of a french-Canadian athlete.

The High School race season is also under way and MNC athletes are kicking butt all over the place! I’ve heard about lots of top-10 performances across the board and one standout was Ben Carnahan (freshman at CVU) winning his first-ever JV race by nearly a minute thereby earning a spot on the Varisty squad for future races!

Training continues this week with an expanded group of athletes as we have a few of our graduates back in town (Emma Hamilton – Bowdoin; Liam John and Sam Longbenbach from St. Olaf). We are trying to log some km’s while everyone is on break from school. We are also sending luck to the Harmeyer Brothers who are traveling to Utah for Senior National Championships next week. Nathanael Kuzio also wraps up his Biathlon Junior World Championship trials races today up in Presque Isle, ME.

Group photo at the Cabin before bombing Pariso in 1:41.1.

Ben Carnahan at the Craftsbury Eastern Cup. Congrats Ben for making Varsity!

Harmeyers and John brothers braving the ice at Craftsbury. Burning off the Christmas cookies.

Sabra Davison talking with the athletes midway up the 40-year trail at Trapp’s today

Mt. Jericho. Thank god for snomaking at the Range!

Eliza doing a 180* on skis — she was super smooth

Junior Photos and Recap

By Adam Terko on 2 November, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

This past week marked the first week of “pre-season” training now that fall sports have concluded. Our group was therefore a little bigger than normal! It is really exciting to see many of our younger BKL athletes making the transition to the junior program!! We kicked off the week with some strength, technique, and specific strength (aka, double poling) at Mud Pond. On Thursday we worked on skate technique and finding rhythm in the V2 alternate technique. Yesterday was a nice warm (but windy) afternoon at Essex High School working on some dryland drills and our running heart-rate zone analysis. This workout is meant to take athletes from running at level 1 pace (easy) and progress up to high level 2 or low level 3 (moderate). We run at specific paces and record heart-rate at the end of each mile. Over many weeks or months, we hope to see small improvements demonstrated by lower heart-rate at the same pace. The boys run 1 mile repeats at 9:00, 8:15 then 7:30 with 1 minute breaks (and sometimes a 4th mile repeat again at 7:30). The gals do 10:00 / 9:15 / 8:30. We also play some hackey sack or juggle a soccer ball to work on coordination and agility.

the “low walk” drill — try to keep your hips below your knees. Strength, flexibility, balance, coordination.

Hackey sack before practice. Coordination, agility, balance.

Olivia Cuneo bounding on the grass as coach Eli Enman watches. Technique, balance.

Marika Massey Bierman is making the jump from BKL to Juniors!

Chloe Lemmel-Hay, Eliza Thomas and Emily Halporn playing a game during warmup. Balance, agility.

Chloe Lemmel Hay working on bounding in the grass.

A big group of boys doing some specific strength (10km of double poling in 40 minutes).

Strength during our warmup.

The team photo on tuesday.

Junior Photos and Bolton Time Trial Results

By Adam Terko on 26 October, 2013 in BKL Jackrabbits, Junior Blog

This past week of training was a tough one! We kicked things off on Tuesday at the UVM Research Forest in Jericho for a sustained bounding workout. The sun was shining but there was a chill in the air and lots of leaves on the ground. Bounding is a great workout because it is so similar to skiing; it uses more muscles than just running. Thursday we did some specific strength on a dreary afternoon at Mud Pond. And this morning we hosted another Central Vermont Coop Series event at Bolton. In spite of several inches of snow, approx 25 athletes ran up the mountain! Hopefully more photos coming from that – my phone died. The conditions probably slowed the course down by 1-3 minutes, so we can’t really compare today’s times to times from September. It was a great morning with lots of excitement for winter and a wide variety of athletes and age groups — from age 11 to 50+.