Mansfield Nordic Club
Ski coaching, training and playing in the shadow of Mt Mansfield for all ages and abilities
Last Tuesday, Masters afternoon and evening skiers tapped into their “inner child” and had an Olympic Games Day in honor of the Youth Olympics being held in South Korea. After forming teams and coming up with a team country and cheer, the teams competed in a cone shuttle relay, speedball and relay towing. Lots of fun for all and photos are below!
Relay towing.
Speedball on the penalty loop.
Cone shuttle relay.
Afternoon speedball.
High-speed towing relays!
Women lined up for the start of the Classic Craftsbury Marathon Women’s wave.
Fifty-nine women and one hundred and fourteen men lined up for the Craftsbury Marathon Classic 25 or 50k on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. Among them were five MNC masters women and and six MNC masters men. The course would be a 13.5 km loop: two times round for the 25k and three times round for a shortened 50k. With the MNC wax trailer parked in the lot and coaches Rosemary, Adam and Kristen testing wax and dialing in the structure, we quickly klistered up everyone’s skis for good kick. Coach Rosemary then set up a bench trailside with the klister roller ready to give anyone who needed it a little more kick during the race! A little “wax security” goes a long way for a worry free race! Congratulations to Chase Rosenberg, Pascal Cheng, Michael Dillon, Craig Peppin, Jim Adkisson, Andres Torrizo (age class winner), Sara Katz, Karen Alence, Jen Adkisson, Ellie Bouffard and Liz Hollenbach (age class winner) for kick and gliding the distance and having a great time doing it! In addition, we had two Devo skiers ski the 25k with Coaches Adam and Kristen. Congrats to Liam Vile and Oakley Crawford!
This is a Marathon weekend, and that meant a skate 30 km on Sunday. MNC had twelve men and four women compete in Sunday’s skate race. Congrats to Michael Gaughan, Sam Seely, Mike Millar, Owen Lenz, Brian Sprague, Chris Howell, Duncan Dubief (Jr), Chris Flannery, Gretta Kilburn (age class winner), Sheila Weaver and Coach Rosemary (age class winner).
Extra kudos go out to Sara Katz, Michael Dillon and Pascal Cheng who all raced BOTH days, completing the “Brodhead Challenge”, skiing essentially almost 80 km over the course of the two days and proving that they are incredibly fit and tough! Hats off to all three of you!
Women head up the teaching hill.
The BKL Division start.
The MNC Trailside Klister Station!
Due to forecasted highwinds, snow & rain we are cancelling evening Masters today. We all need to be on our way home by 6 pm today. Evening people welcome to come and ski this afternoon.
Do you have the day off on Monday 1/15? You could do the Geschmossel! The Geschmossel is a fun 12-15 km race in an iconic setting- beautiful Bretton Woods, NH. In the past we’ve done car pools over in the morning from Richmond Park and Ride and plan to do that again.
*1/08: Bretton Woods will get the same crazy weather we are about to get with rain, winds and snow. They may decide to cancel or post-pone the race and will make a decision on Friday. I will post here when I find out.
Details:
Registration: SkiReg link . Online registration closes Saturday 1/13 at 5 pm. There is day of race registration (costs more).
Coaches Going to Help Wax? Yes! Both Rosemary and Adam plan to go and bring wax benches, wax, and waxing know-how!
Carpooling: It takes about 2 hours from Richmond Park and Ride and you will want to get there 1.5 hours before the race. Coaches will try to get there a little earlier to figure out the wax of the day.
It’s more fun when you go with other people: Carpooling Sign-up Link
Bringing a treat to share for after makes it even more fun!
Wax Recommendation: Will be posted on Saturday on our website. Most likely you’ll want to put on some binder.
We just got some new intel from people who raced at Rikert today that hardwax is working well. But, you definitely need a binder. See the previous post for a gide recommendation.
For BKL: Regular hardwax binder like TOKO Base green or other cold binder. Rough up the kickzone with 150 grit sandpaper. Rub on the binder and iron in. Wax of the day can be applied on site.
For Masters & Juniors: Rough up the kickzone with 150 grit sandpaper. Then iron in either 1) a thin layer of klister binder (Toko base green, swix green, chola) or 2) a good layer of Toko base green or other cold hardwax binder. Cork smooth after ironing, let cool. Then rub on 1 or 2 more layers of base binder, corking smooth after each one. If your skis are very soft, you may want to go with the thin klister binder and less layers. If your skis are stiffer, go with they layered hardwax binder.
If all this sounds like Greek to you, don’t worry! We will have some spray binders, an iron, lots of hardwax, wax benches and coaches to help you get skis that work! See you at Rikert!
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