Jackrabbit and Racing Team age skiers are invited to pre-season activities starting October 17th from 3:30 – 5:00 at Mills Riverside Park in Underhill, and happens every Friday until the winter program begins. There is no fee for this program lead by MNC coaches and parents. Newcomers are welcome and parents are encouraged to help out as well. Kids will engage in activities designed to challenge them, improve agility, balance, strength and overall fitness in a high energy and fun environment. This is a perfect opportunity for our young skiers to make new friends and get to know their coaches before winter.
Masters 10/21-10/26 – Location Updated 10/21
Fall Training this week -Oct 21-26 2015
21 – Tuesday Strength Session w/ Dennis at Dee Physical Therapy 23 San Remo Dr. South Burlington — 6PM be sure to email Dennis if you will be there – dryanpta@yahoo.com
23 – Thursday Dry-Land Training at Ethan Allen Biathlon Range 5:30 – BRING HEAD LAMP JUST IN CASE. Please email or text Rick if you will be there rtcostanza@gmail.com or 370-5686.
25 – Saturday Join Jrs for Bolton hill climb time trial 10 AM
26 – Rollerski Time Trial – Williston – meet at Williston School 9AM – warmup up and technique work along with course preview start time trial at 10 AM. Distance likely around 5-7 km. Please email or text Rick if you will be there rtcostanza@gmail.com or 370-5686.
Junior Photo Roundup
We’ve had an excellent fall of training (aside from a miserably cold and rainy bike ride last Saturday). The foliage is looking awesome and the skiers are having some fun while working very hard.
Rachel and Abby showing some nice form during a striding speed
Gorgeous afternoon last week working on speeds in the Meadowridge development. Sun’s out, guns out.
One of the things the older boys have been working on is ring dips… MUCH more difficult than regular dips… here is Henry Harmeyer cranking ’em out
Covered bridge in Ferrisburgh, VT (just East of Mt Philo)
Bounding intervals on a cloudy day at Bolton, with supervision from my doggies
Abby Grab working on agility drills at the Range earlier this fall. Conor Munns and Greg Burt in the background practicing their backwards skiing
We’ve been training at Williston Central School on a weekly basis and the boys are getting really comfortable in the skate park!! Here is Will Solow catching some air.
“Marathon Day” — all the athletes rollerskied over 27 miles. Here they’re along Lake Champlain near Georgia, VT
Masters Fall Training 10/13 – 10/26
- 10/14 – Tuesday Strength Session w/ Dennis at Dee Physical Therapy 23 San Remo Dr. South Burlington — 6PM
- 10/16 – Thursday Dry- Mills River Side Park Underhill 5:30 BRING HEAD LAMP
- 10/19 – Sunday Distance classic ski @ Round Church – Richmond 9 AM
- 10/21 – Tuesday Strength Session w/ Dennis at Dee Physical Therapy 23 San Remo Dr. South Burlington — 6PM
- 10/23 – Thursday Dry- Mills River Side Park Underhill 5:30 – BRING HEAD LAMP
- 10/26 – Rollerski Time Trial – Williston – meet at Williston School 9AM
This program is being offered at no charge but donations to MNC to support MNC ski programs for all ages are welcome and encouraged.
Results from GMVS 5/10km skate time trial
Yesterday we had a crew travel down to Waitsfield for our first big Central VT Coop event of the fall: a 5km/10km skate time-trial. Along with athletes from GMVS, Burke Mtn Academy and Ford Sayre, MNC athletes were greeted by a gorgeous fall day in the Mad River Valley, a tough course, and some delicious American Flatbread pizza!
The courses are point-to-point; both courses start on East Warren Road and finish with a ~1.2km climb up Plunkton Rd. Conditions were basically perfect with brilliant sunshine, dry roads and temp around 60*.
Overall I was really amazed by these performances from all of the MNC boys! Ethan, Bill and Henry all participated last Fall and all 3 of them smashed their old PR’s by at least a minute. Conor Munns — who is technically still a BKL’er — had a time that was nearly 40 seconds faster than the 5km course record (set last year by future Junior National Champion Forrest Hamilton)… and Conor finished 4th in the event. Will Solow threw down a blistering 12:58 and when he crossed the finish line he remarked “damn, I thought I had longer to go…I could’ve gone way harder!”
Overall it was just an awesome day to see some former teammates, future teammates, friends and to ski on some different roads.
5km (U16 boys):
- Will Solow (MNC) 12:58
- Adam Glueck (Ford Sayre) 13:13 (26th place in 2014 Junior National 5km skate)
- Walker Bean (GMVS) 13:14
- Conor Munns (MNC) 13:49
- Ellito Ketchel (GMVS) 13:54
- Tim Regan (Burke) 17:41
10km (U18/U20 boys/U23 boys): [time from Oct’13 and Nov’13 in brackets]
- David Sinclair (GMVS U23) 27:55
- Ian Moore (GMVS PG) 28:07
- Nick Gardner (GMVS PG) 28:51
- Henry Harmeyer (MNC) 28:58 [30:37 / 30:16]
- Bill Harmeyer (MNC) 28:59 [32:58 / 33:30]
- Forrest Hamilton (GMVS/MNC) 29:42
- Charlie Maitland (MNC) 30:32
- Ethan John (MNC) 31:24 [34:13]
