Top Menu

Author Archive | Adam Terko

MNC wins Eastern Cup #1!

The points have been tallied, and the recaps have been written. This season, NENSA scores each Eastern Cup for team points across the various age categoies: U16 women, U16 men, U18/U20 women, U18/U20 men.

A few days after returning from Waterville, the points were up. MNC won the first Eastern Cup of the season!

Recap from NENSA: Nationally sanctioned races start off at the Roy Varney Eastern Cup

This is a pretty cool sign of what our club can achieve…with speed at the top and depth through all the age groups and racers, we were able to show the benefit of all the hard work over the past seasons and years.

What’s more, the Eastern Cups are all a part of the NENSA Club Cup which MNC is currently leading. Help us maintain the lead, no matter if you’re a Junior or a Masters racer, by taking part in some great racing this winter!

MNC Masters 12/28 and 12/30

The good news: The Range has pushed out the 1km on Sprint Loop, so we will have a dedicated loop of great conditions and grooming.
The bad news: The other trails are either melted-out or too icy to ski safely, so they are v-boarding those off with no skiing allowed.
The limited terrain, combined with many coaches out for the holidays, means we are shifting to skate (for simplicity) and to open ski (for beginner groups) with pre-written intensity plans (for advanced groups).
The Masters Training Doc has links to some intensity plans and ideas for this week.
Please be aware that the snowmaking loop is narrow in points, and we will have enough skiers out there to make stopping and bunching-up a bit of a hazard. Let’s try to limit gathering and stopping to open field areas whenever possible.
Coaches will be floating around to answer questions, offer training advice, and technique help. The main field area, which is grass in the summer (not paved) should still have some good coverage for beginner skiers to ski on!
Please remember to check in at the gate from the “USBA list” when you enter the base. As always, thank you for being patient and flexible with ski locations, training structure, and snow conditions.

MNC Masters cancelled Thurs 12/23

Due to poor conditions at the Range, we have been informed that the trails will NOT be open to civilians this evening. It looks like our Masters will be resuming next Tuesday at the earliest: thanks for your patience and happy holidays!

Eastern Cup #1 Waterville, ME

Julia Thurston told me she makes a to-do list, and focuses on check things off in 15-minute increments before giving herself a break from work. I’m still recovering from an amazing weekend of lengthy travel, late nights of waxing and planning, and full days of the greatest Junior racing in the country, so I’m going to take that approach and make a list of what made this past weekend so great…

  • Racing with the rest of New England! Team vans lining the lots, parents and skiers and coaches all buzzing about a stadium, an announcer playing music and calling the action…wow, it had been a long time.
  • Our new trailer! Thanks to a generous donation from Luke Shullenberger and outfitted with some of the coolest waxing tools and supplies, this is a home base at the races that coaches and skiers can all get behind. And a comfortable warm spot to wax skis until the wee hours of the morning when the cold wind is howling outside.
  • In-person pre-race team meetings, complete with sidetracked discussions and absolutely every question you could possibly imagine about how a sprint day works.
  • The team showing up ready to make a statement. With each new race I have to acknowledge a reality and make sure the team recognizes and accepts it as well: we really are as fast as we think we are. Turns out being the hardest working team on the Eastern Cup pays off when the gun goes off!
  • Everything about team van travel. From pushing the thing out of the snowy mud in the parking lot to hearing a bunch of teenagers attempt to karaoke Bob Marley at max volume 3 hours into the nighttime drive home.
  • Experiencing standout objective results (like Ava winning the open women’s race on Sunday and her MNC teammates mixing up the college racers, or the U16 boys taking up 3 of the 6 spots in the A-Final in the sprint) alongside markers of growth like the first Eastern Cup or team travel race for much of the group.
  • A huge team! Sara and I looked it up, and we had more U16 athletes racing in Waterville this year than we had ENTIRE MNC RACERS at the Waterville Eastern Cup in 2016. You can see all results here.
  • This photo from Dave Priganc which really says all you need to know about what racing, MNC, and Nordic skiing is all about

 

MNC @ The Range 12/21 and 12/23

MNC Members,

We will be having training (BKL, Juniors, Masters) at the Range this week.

Note that there is NO BKL PRACTICE ON THURSDAY 12/23

Upon getting to the gate at the Range…

please specify that you are on the USBA LIST… 

…and not the MNC list. All currently-registered MNC members have been added to the USBA list, which is what will be used for access through the end of 2021. Please have a valid drivers license, as your ID will be checked.

Please do not drive above the posted speed limit of either 20 or 25 mph.

Training notes can be found on the Junior Training Doc, the Masters Training Doc, and the BKL Blog

 

Social media & sharing icons powered by UltimatelySocial