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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.

Graduate Emma Hamilton (now at Bowdoin), Autumn Eastman and Cally Braun all smiles at team dinner

Graduate Emma Hamilton (now at Bowdoin), Autumn Eastman and Tatum Braun all smiles at team dinner

Ed Hamilton making the skis even faster! Thanks Ed

that’s me – trying to keep the klister on the skis and not on everything else

Will Solow and Ben Longenbach in the tough 5km classic race

Don Harmeyer working hard, as always, in the wax tent. Thanks Don!

Eliza Thomas got her first experience as a J2 at the Eastern Cup level

NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION (in the Youth Men’s Biathlon Pursuit) Nathanael Kuzio

Ben Hegman skiing to a strong result in the 15km classic. Not far off the times of 2014 Olympian Kris Freeman in the prior race on Saturday!

Junior Photos and recap

By Adam Terko on 16 November, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

First we’ll start with a video made by Bill Harmeyer:

BEGIN from Bill Harmeyer on Vimeo.

What an awesome week, once again! Training at the Range has been really positive for the entire group.Tuesday after the cold snowy weather we were forced to improvise a bounding / running and strength workout at the Range and we had a visit from Ethan Townsend the Head Nordic Coach at St Lawrence University.

On Thursday we took everybody around the “S turns” which is the farthest out loop. Everybody skied the hills 2-3 times and became more comfortable with the challenging terrain. Our fall and pre-season athletes are now familiar with all 5 loops (total of 5km) of pavement at the Range which will really make training fun next summer! On Thursday the everybody in the group skied at least 15km with some breaking the 20km mark — not too shabby for a school night!

Friday was a small group for our heart-rate zone analysis test that we do every few weeks: running specific paces on the track (low- to medium-intensity) and we monitor heart rates and hope to see them decrease over time. A chilly night but fun running with a near full moon.

Today we had a great crew of about 12 MNC athletes wake up early (and lots of parents, too — THANKS PARENTS!) to drive down to the Mad River Valley for the final fall event of the Central Vermont Coop Series — 5km and 10km rollerski time trials. It was GORGEOUS! The boys field was wicked competitive with 2 former junior national champs participating. Lots of fun, lots of parents and siblings spectating, and the Rand family made some incredible awards for all participants: delicious cinnamon buns.

Enjoy the pics!

the entire crew after the TT today

Parker and Henry doing some dynamic warmup on Friday at MMUHS

Nathanael Kuzio blasts out of the start gate!

Ed Hamilton — proud father and tough father representing Northwest Vermont Endurance

Sean Delaney off to a fast start

Charlie Cobb with Sugarbush in the background

Amy Bruce skied tough today!

Ben Carnahan beat his time from last month by nearly 30 seconds

Forrest cruising early in the TT

Annavitte nears the finish line

Henry digging deep in the final 100m

Bill Harmeyer making his way up the tough final climb

Photo Roundup

By Adam Terko on 19 October, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Two weeks ago was an “intensity week” which included the hardest bounding workout of the year (pics below). This past week included easier training and some fun training to allow the athletes to recovery from the physical load. We did some games and relays which serve as a bit of a mental break, as well. At this time of year, rollerskiing isn’t always fun since some of them have been doing it since May or early June. We also worked a lot on no-pole skate skiing which helps with balance and improves leg strength.

Bill leads the group working on a fast-feet skate drill

Tatum and Molly working on skate body position – and trying to push harder than one another

Last Tuesday was the hardest bounding workout of the year. Everyone did between 6-10 repeats of 3-4 minutes really hard!

Greg checking his heart-rate at the end of an interval

Abby Grab working on a striding drill. Really nice ankle flex, forward body lean. Great!

Charlie Maitland out in the lead – no pole skate relays.

Friday evening clouds at MMU yesterday

Look closeley: Henry is in the air! This is a core exercise in which the athletes “hop” while holding a plank position

Bear crawl race on Thursday at Mud Pond.

Nathanael Kuzio and Peter Unger won the contest for synchronized 360’s during warmup!!

The gals trying to synchronize their 360’s

Tuesday warmup included some agility and coordination: jumping and doing a 360* turn

The whole group heading home on Tuesday out near Round Church.

Photo Roundup from the past week

By Adam Terko on 5 October, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Whew! Our “recovery week” flew by…

Everyone seemed really tired – mentally and physically – by the end of last week (which was a “volume week” which means is was oriented around longer workouts at lower- to moderate-intensity). So it was great timing to have an easier week of training with shorter workouts and less tiresome workouts.

This morning we had approx 6 of our MNC athletes and several parents make the trek down to Waitsfield for a Central VT Co-op rollerski race. It was a really challenging course along East Warren Rd and finishing up a ~1,000m climb up. The scenery was beautiful and the views downt here are hard to beat.