IMPORTANT Info for Weekend Fun

Friday night waxing at 5:30pm at the High School, we will get everyone skis prepped for the Saturday race, meaning glide wax. You will leave your skis with me and I will bring them up to Bread Loaf and puto on base binder on Saturday morning.

After waxing:Dinner at my place on Weybridge St.Ill give you directions tonight. Here's what to bring, we're going Mexican in stead of Italian:
Freshmen: Drinks
Sophomores:Chips and Salsa (high rollers can bring Guacamole)
Juniors: Salad (I liked the bag of apples last time too...)
Seniors :Desserts

EVERYONE: We are a little shy on games, so...apples to apples, decks of cards, bananagrams, boggle. WE do have fusball.

SATURDAY Boys varsity be at Bread Loaf by 12:00 everyone else should be there by 12:30. We will be set up in the college team room, at the far end of the building, please come directly there to check in and get your skis. We will work out a group course preview so that everyone is familiar with the turns and gets a good warmup. There is an ACTR shuttle from Adirondak circle at 11:40, arriving at Bread Loaf at 12:10 that people can use if necessary.

CLASSIC Race Saturday

So , we'll be hosting our home classic race this Saturday at 1:30 pm. It will be a fun mass start so get ready for some action. 5km Varsity race will start in the field with a big double pole and head into the woods on Battell, return through the field and head out the long climb up second loop to the figure eight. We had a good test today with a time trial and it skied pretty smoothly. The 3km JV race follows the same course cutting the final climb short and turning back a good downhill return to the stadium finish.

We still need some volunteer help so bug your parents, (as will I). We're looking for a handful of people to work on setup Friday at 3:30pm (this will be laying out the start finish area, maybe a little shoveling, etc. Saturday 9 am will be another time to help with setup and final course preparations. During the race we will need registration staff, timers, bib collection and people at the road crossing. Please arrive by 12:00 to sort out the details.I can be reached at andersleemeyer@gmail[dot]com if you would like to sign up for a slot.

Photos from the Rutland Sprints

Really happy with the effort today. We had some great finishes Will Earle in a tie for 3rd place, Will Conlon, Stephen Peters-Collaer, Kelsey McGlashan and Mac Groves all finishing in a tight bunch in the top 20. Men 3rd overall.

On the ladies side, despite a tough crash, Britta came home in 8th with Lydia just behind in 10th. No surprise the dynamic trio was within 7 seconds of eachother, another good race for Haley Hannah and Emma. 4th overall.

Across the board, technique looked good today, Yib Lacey is skiing in good form, Griffin Wood is making progress. Addison Bolton and longer poles turn out to be a great combo. "Bloody nose" George Mulcahy returns to Mt Top with a vengeance and emerges unscathed this round.
Nathalie Ingersol, Olivia Cacciatore and Sophie Ryan all in their first year on the team put in some great efforts.

What can I say? So many good moments from today. I wish I could put more photos on the blog, I insist, you click on the slide show link to see more of the action from today's race. There are some phenomenal photos of all of our racers. Do these four need captions? I think so...
1. Will Conlon will continue to have his picture posted on this blog to intimidate every other team in a 300 mile radius.
2. Haley Olson (aka the masked bandit)
3. Lydia Allen posts a top 10 finish in her first individual high school race.
4. Not one to let Will Conlon take all the credit, let it be known that Hannah Kraus will also eat you if you get on her bad side.

Saturday sprint race thoughts from skiers

Olivia C. Nathalie I.- the race was really fun, it was a nice short course and the other competitors were very friendly. Even though we feel like we could have pushed a bit more, it was a great race and a great experience.

The race by Britta and will and hAley
overall it was an awesome race. We had two .9 km sprints, will finished in fourth and Britta finished 6th. This meant that for the second sprint will was in the first heat and he even tied for third. Britta ended up getting tripped in her second heAt. overall a wicked fun race...woooooo skiing!!!l

Woohooo fast snow! Warm day. Midd dominate!!!!!!!-by Kelsey

First race. Didn't suck! Awesome. -Olivia

Ha. We should do a race like this every time. Little Man.

It was like a party but with hard work and being outside... so not really a party at all. -george

Fun race. Did better the second time. -devona

Saturday

It's on. Individual Sprint race with heats. I'll explain the full details when I get the email. For now what I know and what you need to know is...Bus leaves at 11:45 from MUHS, race starts at 1:30, we'll be skating again. Even more fun than last time.

Pleaes email me ASAP if you want to race so I can put you on the start list.

Remember, the bouncers at Will's house will have the results sheet in hand, cross checking the guest list. At least come and cheer (full body tiger suit optional).

Meet Matt Truehart

Here's a little bit from our new assistant coach. We're really excited to have another teammate, and look forward to the extra support we'll be able to provide. Plus the awesome photo I get to put up for everyone to look at. Here's some motivation for you...

From Matt:

It was great to meet everyone yesterday, and I'm excited to get to know all of you during the season. Just so you know a little bit about me, here's a quick bio; obviously if you have any questions about anything always feel free to ask. I call Andover, VT home these days, though I've lived all over the place over the years. The first time I cross-country skied when I was pretty young, but I didn't start training or racing competitively until high school. Knowing you want to keep skiing in college does a nice job narrowing your options, and I went to Dartmouth and graduated this past June with a degree in earth science. I skied all four years in college and had a great time on the team there, though it was certainly a lot of hard work. I love skiing and I'm really excited to work with you guys. I'm looking forward to a great season--hopefully with lots of snow!

Team Dinner Saturday

While we're waiting to hear about the races this weekend, I'm going to lay it down for you. Something is happening Saturday. Be it a race or a team hike. Whatever the event, consider it preparation for the festivities that follow. Each class will be responsible for the following dishes.
Freshmen: Bread
Sophomores: Drinks
Juniors: Desserts
Seniors: Salads (and don't mess this one up)

So remember racing (or hiking) first, dinner second. Will's house we can go straight from activity one to activity two.