Burn off those Holiday Calories and Resolve to ski more at this year’s Santa’s Revenge and Resolution Santa’s Relays. Santa’s Revenge will be a Freestyle 5-10km race (depending on conditions). The Resolution Relays will be informal 4X2km relays. 600m Lollipop at 9:00am, 2km BKL to follow, Open Race to follow. Resolution Relay will follow the completion of all events, bring a team or join one at the event.
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MNC Begins BK Fall Friday Ski Practices
On a blustery fall day MNC kicked off the first BK Fall Friday dryland ski practice of the season at Mills Riverside Park in Underhill. We are very happy to welcome some new faces to the club and look forward to a great winter skiing together. Today kids, coaches and some parents participated in activities that were not only fun but also develop fast feet, balance and coordination to help us become better skiers. See you Next Friday!!
The Name Game
Ali, Sammie, and Carl on the slack line
How far can you leap?
Justin showing us how to balance!
VT wins J2 Champs; MNC Top-10’s at Junior Nationals!
Team Vermont at the J2 Champs. Photo from NENSA.net
Updates on the NENSA website make it look as though the J2 Championships had some beautiful weather in addition to the always fun atmosphere. Going into the final day, Maine held a lead over Vermont, but the VT’ers pulled out the title with strong relay performances. Forrest Hamilton had a strong weekend on the boys side, taking a 3rd in the 5km skate race. Several other locals were seen in the results (and photos catching big air) including cyclocross star Cooper Willsey (CVU), Charlie Maitland (CVU), Charlie Cobb (MMU), Peter Unger and Ben Longenbach (CVUers), and Nigel Sarrazin of Colchester. The local gals were also well represented, with Lydia Picotte (MMU), Rachel Slimovitch (CVU), Abby Grab (MMU), and Kate Burke (CVU).
Full results from the J2 Champs.
Junior Nationals in Alaska:
Link to official Junior Nationals 2013 website.
Link to Summit Timing – results / start lists and LIVE RESULTS for Junior Nationals.
Today were also the first day of competition at Junior Nationals in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks is a cold and dry place, where it snows in October and that snow doesn’t melt until April or May! Conditions are excellent here at Birch Hill — if a bit cold — but we’ve had so few cold powder days in the past 2 seasons of racing. Today were the 5/10km individual skate races on a grueling course. The trails start with challenging S-turn descents that put lactate and adrenaline into your body immediately. Then the main climb smacks you in the face around the 1km mark. The course trends up for nearly 2.5 km before rolling and downhill stretches.
Our local athletes and MNC athletes absolutely killed it today: brothers Jack and Ben Hegman began the day by both placing 4th in the OJ and J1 categories, respectively. Next on course were the J2 Boys and brothers Bill Harmeyer and Henry Harmeyer were the cookie-portion of an oreo sandwich (placing 5th and 8th) while Nathanael Kuzio was the delicious cream filling (placing 7th). CVU grad Sienna Searles placed 23rd in the OJ gals category and South Burlington’s Aleksandra Zakrzewska was 27th OJ.
Ben Hegman en route to 4th place J1 in the country!
Nathanael Kuzio skates to a 7th place finish in J2!
Bill Harmeyer climbing to 5th place J2
Henry Harmeyer en route to 8th place J2
Ben Hegman en route to 4th place J1 in the country!
Jack Hegman en route to 4th OJ
Yeseterday we took some of the J1/OJ boys out to see the ice sculptures from the recent World Ice Carving Championships. Here is the winning sculpture — a huge scene with a valiant knight attacking a dragon that has a woman held captive in chains. It is truly amazing to see in person:
The winning sculpture at World Ice Carving Championships!
MNC Juniors Amongst the Best in VT
High School skiers wrapped up their season over the past week with the State Championships events held over the course of 2 days. Last Thursday featured skate races at Craftsbury, while they raced classic events at Prospect yesterday. CVU showed their strength and depth to take the overall titles in both boys and gals D1.
BFP Day 1 Coverage and Results
BFP Day 2 Coverage and Results
MNC athletes were present on many teams from around the County, including CVU, MMU, Essex, BHS, Colchester, BFA-St. Albans and Harwood. Skiing for the State Champion CVU squad were: Forrest Hamilton, Emmett Peterson, Parker Francis, Sean Delaney, Charlie Maitland, Thomas Clayton and Sam Longenbach — all members of MNC!! Forrest won the individual title for D1 skate, and was 2nd in the classic. Nathanael Kuzio (Harwood/MNC) was 2nd in the state in the D2 skate, and 3rd in the classic. Rounding out the podium yesterday was Emmett Peterson in 3rd. Ethan John joined the aforementioned athletes in 13th overall D1 skate and climbed to 9th in the classic.
On the gals’ side, CVU won it all, featuring several MNC athletes as well. Autumn Eastman was 3rd in skate, followed by Cally Braun, Kayla Servin and Emma Hamilton (all CVU/MNC) and all in the top-15. Autumn claimed 3rd again in classic, while Cally and Emma moved up to 7th and 9th, respecitively.
While I am not certain, I believe nearly >90% of participants in the MNC summer program represented their high schools at the State Champs. I haven’t seen full results, but I know there were many other MNC skiers racing (Nigel Sarrazin, Jordan Lamay, Ethan Thibault of Colchester, Lucy Leith and Lukas Adamowicz of BHS, Leslie Robers of BFA-St.A, Tatum Braun of CVU). My apologies if I missed anyone, please let me know or add a comment.
MNC will host open training tomorrow (Thursday 2/28) as well as next Tuesday and THursday 3/5 and 3/7. All training will take place at the Range at 4pm.
Nigh Time Rollerskiing
Emmett Peterson, CVU
Amy Bruce, MMU
Ethan John, Essex
Ethan Thibault, Colchester
