This past weekend we had our last training of the summer session, followed on Sunday by the Catamount Trail fundraiser “Race to the Top of Vermont” which is either a running or mountain bike race up the Mansfield Toll Road (Stowe). There were a ton of skiers and former skiers in the event: including a group of MNC athletes, Craftsbury Green Racing Project Elite Team members, and coaches.
In the women’s run, 5 of the top 9 are skiers:
- 1-Kasie Enman (Eli’s wife)
- 2-Caitlin Patterson (UVM Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 3-Ida Sargent (Dartmouth Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 5- Clare Egan (UNH Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 7-Robyn Anderson (Middlebury Grad, VTXC)
- 9-Hannah Dreissigacker (Dartmouth Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
Other female skier sightings include current & former NENSA board members and other former coaches and recreational skiers and HS ski families:
- Hollenbachs, Spillanes, Eastmans, Pribrams, Rands, Hosmer, Geer, Van Dyke,
In the men’s run, 12 of the top 20 are current or former skiers:
- 2-Gordon Vermeer (Dartmouth Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 3-Nils Koons (Dartmouth Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 4-Scott Patterson (UVM Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 6-Jordan Fields (Woodstock HS Grad)
- 7- Dylan McGuffin (UNH Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 8-Eli Enman COACH MNC and CVUHS!!
- 10-Tim Reynolds (Middlebury Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 11-Patrick O’Brien (Dartmouth Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 14-Mark Gilberston (Former US Ski Team / Olympian)
- 16-Bryan Cook (NMU Grad, Craftsbury GRP)
- 19-Nathan Alsobrook (Bowdoin College Head Coach)
Also sighted in the results:
- Kerrigans, Harmeyers, Skyler Davis, Howe, Kelloggs (Charlie formerly US Ski Team, Terry formerly Middlebury College), Darling
Mountain Bike:
- Won by 2012 Olympian Lea Davison (Middlebury grad, former alpine racer, currently uses XC skiing as part of her winter-time training for MTB)
- Also seen: Harmeyer, Jamiesons (Mad River Valley BKL participants)
Cally Braun early in the race |
MNC folks at the summit: Annavitte, Karin, Ethan, Liam, Bill, Penny, Alice |
Pre-race: Annevitte, Bill, Henry, Autumn, Emma, Cally, Tatum |
Saturday AM rollerski at Mud Pond: working on skate drills |