Hello again from Tabernash Colorado. As I write this, it is two in the afternoon on Monday, and temperatures in the Fraser Valley are pushing into the mid 50's F. Don't worry, there is more than enough snow to get through the last race on Saturday, even if the fresh stuff predicted for tonight and tomorrow does not materialize. I am much more concerned about the racers that I saw basking in the sun when...
RESULTS: Women: http://www.nensa.net/sched&result/2005/men_3_23.htm David Chamberlain (Bethel, ME) arrived at Portland Jetport yesterday afternoon after spending the last six weeks competing at World Championships in Germany, then World Cup events in Scandinavia. Twenty-four hours later he was putting on a show at the one kilometer track laid out by the City of Portland… and groomed by Coastal Nordic Ski Club at Deering Oaks Park in Portland. Chamberlain finished second in qualifying, but left nothing to chance...
Dave Chamberlain, Tim Weston, and biathlete Tim Burke among confirmed participants!
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Vermont Wins Banknorth Eastern High School Championships; New Hampshire Takes 2nd Place From Maine. March 20, 2005 (Bolton Valley, VT): The results in the boys’ 7.5km classic race, the last race of the Banknorth Eastern High School Championships, read like a see-saw: NH, Vermont, NH, Vermont, Maine, VT, ME, VT, … But there was no question who was in charge. New Hampshire’s Alex Howe (Gilford), has been in command this weekend, winning by 13 seconds...
Source: NENSA (www.nensa.net) March 23, 2005, 1st Annual Banknorth Maine Nordic Sprint Championships Deering Oaks Park, Portland, ME Event Info: The action will get under way with qualifying at 4PM. The top qualifiers will compete in the “Elite Heats” from 6:00 to 6:30 followed by heats for all ages from 6:45 to 8:30. All events will take place on a 1K course in Deering Oaks Park in the city of Portland. The park is centrally...
Banknorth Eastern Nordic Ski Championships — McLoon and Osgood win Classic Events — Maine Winter Sports Center teams take the Sprint Relays March 12 (Rumford, ME): Anna McLoon’s time of 19:08.5 (Maine Winter Sports Center, Caribou, ME) edged out Dorcas Wonsavage (Ford Sayre/Etna,NH) by 3/10ths of a second, for the Women’s 5km classic win at this weekend’s Banknorth Eastern Championships at Black Mountain in Rumford, ME. McLoon’s MWSC teammate, Kate Whitcomb (Caribou, ME), came in...
A “SlipStick†Comedic Day of Waxing at The Banknorth Eastern Champs Pursuit — Maine Winter Sport Center’s Osgood and Whitcomb prevail. March 13 (Rumford, ME): Fresh snow and sun in March means a great day of spring skiing, right? Not necessarily. Ask the competitors in Sunday’s concluding race of the Banknorth Eastern Championships at Black Mountain inf Rumford, ME – the women’s 7.5km classic +7.5km freestyle pursuit race and the men’s 10km CL+10km FS pursuit....
Almost 250 skiers raced the season finally 20-kilometer freestyle race in the Wasatch citizen series in Park City, Utah on February 26. As it said on the Utah Nordic web site: – It was a perfect day, on perfect snow, with a perfect track. What a way to end the season!! The race was held on the 6.5-kilometer Farm loop at White Pine Touring Center in Park City. Novice skied one lap; young and old...
As we arrived at the racecourse, a small lake was forming in the stadium. Someone had a canoe out and the fishing looked tempting. Only problem was that nobody was here for a trout fishing derby. Today was the Canadian National Sprint Championships!
This time the temperature did not even really drop below freezing at night. Racers arriving at the parking noticed quickly that small rivers were running through the mud, carrying important parts of the racing trails away with them. What was sugary and relatively fast the day before started to have that good old fashioned sucky and soopy feel to it that we all love. Out came the most expensive powders and the biggest and most...
The individual start classic races of the Canadian Nationals brought some more of the sunny weather and sugary conditions that have been here all week. As the temperature did not drop as low over night as it had the previous days, the classic tracks were even softer than before. Rock hard ice underneath the sugar on some of the more tricky downhill sections did cause numerous falls and the occasional broken pole. For some, like...
Foothills ski club of Calgary/Canmore once again demonstrated impressive strength and depth in the club relay competitions of the Canadian Junior and Senior Nationals, taking place this week in Prince George, B.C. Conditions have been spring-like, with sunshine, very old snow coming from a variety of sources (natural, trucked in, man-made), and temperatures sometimes climbing into the plus 12 celsius range. Colder overnight temperatures and very impressive volunteer labour has made the skiing remarkably good,...
February 20 (Holderness, NH): Over 300 nordic skiers raced the newly designed, 5km course behind the Holderness School, in Plymouth, NH, and the winners both graduated from Middlebury College. Colin Rodgers (Midd ‘04) scorched the 2-lap, 10km freestyle course in 24:52, fourteen seconds ahead of Tom Keefe in 2nd, and 29 seconds ahead of Steve Scott in 3rd. Most significant for the points calculations, however, was Nick Trautz’s fourth place finish. In order to assign...
The third race in the Wasatch, Utah citizen race series was held at the Soldier Hollow Olympic stadium on January 29. Here are some photos from the event. The conditions were nice, sunny and warm with temperatures around 40 Fahrenheit. It didn’t freeze overnight so the snow was “sloppy. The course was a “short†5-kilometer loop that was skied twice. Jason Travis was the fastest male skier while Team TorbjornSport/SOLDA skier Kelly Milligan won the...
The 1990 World Champion cross-country mountain biker, Ned Overend won the race. He maintained pace with the front group and waited until the final lap to surge ahead on the climbs to take the 30km race in 1:19:03. Snow conditions were fantastic and the course was close to 40 minutes faster for the racers this year. Results can be found at:
Valeri Rodokhlebov won the men’s 15 + 15-kilometer pursuit/skiathlon at the Finnish National Cross Country Championship on Sunday. Mika Myllyla was eight and Jari Isomestsa ninth, almost four minutes behind the winner. Mona-Lisa Malvalehto won the women’s 7.5 + 7.5-kilometer race, less than one second ahead of Katja Rotsalainen. Results: Men’s 15+ 15 km 1 Valeri Rodokhlebov 1.21.21,9 2 Tero Similä +1.00,0 3 Sami Jauhojärvi +1.11,1 4 Olli Ohtonen +1.21,2 5 Jukka-Pekka Mäntylä +2.52,7 6...
February 6th (Putney, VT): Middlebury College’s Bryce Roche pulled ahead of a strong field of J1 skiers to win Sunday’s Banknorth Eastern Cup Putney Pursuit. While the sun shone on the racers, volunteers shoveled snow onto the melting track. Roche and his young challengers — Dylan McGuffin (Gunstock Nordic Assocation), Putney Ski Club’s own Kevin Cutts, and Vermont Academy’s Pavel Sotskov, as well as Tim Stickney — held strong through the 5.3 km classic portion,...
Canadian Beckie Scott won the Swisscom FIS 10-Kilometer skate race in Switzerland on Sunday. Beckie Scott is currently training in Davos Switzerland along with the rest of the Canadian World Championship Team Squad. The team used the race as a tune-up for the upcoming weekend’s World Cup races. www.skiclub-bachtel.ch – click on “Rangliste Einzel Sonntag” on top of the home page.