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By Adam Terko on 3 February, 2014 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Race Blog

Tuesday 2/4 BK at the range – classic skiing with short relays to practice proper tagging for the BK Festival. Please bring classic skis cleaned or prepped with the hard wax of the day. Most likely SWIX VR45/ Blue Extra or TOKO Blue possibly Red. Temps should be in the mid 20’s. For a more durable wax job a binder can be applied as a base layer. Either a thin green hard wax layer corked and ironed in or a thin green klister binder that you cover with hard wax.

Thursday 2/6 BK at the the range – Skate skiing. BK Racing will have a biathlon introduction with the EABC and USBA Coach Algis Shalna

Results from last week’s Mini-Marathon

First Name	Last Name	Course: L or S	# Long laps (2.5k)	# Short laps (2k)	Total Laps	Total Km
Dakota	Amblo	L	5		5	12.5
Celia	Andrews	S	1	1	2	4.5
Jonathon	Asselim	L	3		3	7.5
Matthew	Baldwin	L	4		4	10
Finley	Barker	S	1	1	2	4.5
Hattie	Barker	S	1	1	2	5
Baxter	Bishop	L	5		5	12.5
Camille	Bolduc	L	5		5	12.5
Aidan	Burt	S	5		5	12.5
Greg	Burt	L	7		7	17.5
Taylor	Carlson	S	1	2	3	6.5
Tim	Cobb	L	7		7	17.5
Virginia	Cobb	S	1	3	4	8.5
Esther	Cuneo	L	5		5	12.5
Niko	Cuneo	S	1	3	4	8.5
Bryce	DiNardo	L	5		5	12.5
Maura	Duval	L	1		1	2.5
zane	faour	S	1	4	5	12.5
Asa	Fasching	S	1	2	3	6.5
John Paul	Guinee	S	1	2	3	6.5
Kerry	Guinee	S	1	2	3	6.5
Patrick	Guinee, Jr.	S	1	2	3	6.5
Gaelen	Kilburn	L	6		6	15
Kyle	Krieger	S	1	2	3	6.5
Nicolas	Krieger	S	1	3	4	8.5
Jared	Leonard	L	5		5	12.5
Charles	Martell	L	6		6	15
Quincy	Massey-Bierman	L	5		5	12.5
Brady	Morigeaiu	S	1	3	4	8.5
Conor	Munns	L	5		5	12.5
Carl	Nelson	S	1	4	5	12.5
Atticus	Phinney-Anderson	S	1	4	5	12.5
Ali	Priganc	L	6		6	15
Carl	Priganc	S	1	3	4	8.5
ellie	ramirez-richer	S	1	1	2	4.5
Emma	Ramirez-Richer	L	4		4	10
Kai	Richter	L	7		7	17.5
Eli	Rodd	L	4		4	10
Gavin	Schaaf	S	1	2	3	6.5
Justin	Schaaf	L	5		5	12.5
Cole	Shullenberger	S	1	2	3	6.5
Jordan	Shullenberger	S	1	4	5	10.5
Ava	Thurston	L	5		5	12.5
Julia	Thurston	S	1	3	4	8.5
Joshua	Westover	L	3		3	6.5
gavin	wilczynski	L	5		5	12.5
griffin	wilczynski	S	1	2	3	6.5
Elizabeth (“Lily”)	Wilson	S	1	2	3	6.5

Start of the MNC Mini- Marathon

MNC skiers after the 25 KM race at Craftsbury

Junior Photos: Rumford Eastern Cups

By Adam Terko on 28 January, 2014 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Wow what an amazing weekend January 18-19 up in good ‘ole Rumford Maine!! I say amazing for many reasons: we skied on a full 5km race course both days, on very good conditions. We had an incredible turnout of MNC athletes and families. We had a great team dinner with something like 30 athletes and parents. And, to boot, the many of the athletes had really strong race results!

Thanks to many people for the weekend: Sharon Henry for organizing the team dinner, Ed Hamilton and Don Harmeyer for waxing assistance – especially Sunday which were challenging / changing conditions, Gary Solow for photos, and all the parents for making such a commitment to trek to the boondocks for a weekend!

All the of the good photos below are from Gary. The few grainy and low-res pictures are from me. I apologize as there are a few athletes whose pictures I didn’t get.

Tatum, Marika and Eliza working hard in the mass-start

Forrest Hamilton off to a quick start – wearing the yellow “leader’s jersey”

Will Solow trying to find the draft

Autumn Eastman looking fast in the skate race

Callie Braun in the women’s 10km

Team dinner and sweet-16 for Tatum!

Charlie Maitland has been kicking butt in HS races and also had great performances in two long races at Rumford

Henry Harmeyer in the men’s mass-start 15km. Off to the right – in black – is MNC coach Jake Hollenbach!

Bill Harmeyer coming through the lap in the skate race.

201 is national champ and now 4-time Olympian Kris Freeman en route to victory. Amazing that our juniors in New England have such high-caliber competition. #203 is Sylvan Ellefson who recently won a National Championship in the 30km skate race out in Utah. And #202 is Matt Liebsch who narrowly missed the 2014 Olympics.

Graduate Emma Hamilton (now at Bowdoin), Autumn Eastman and Cally Braun all smiles at team dinner

Graduate Emma Hamilton (now at Bowdoin), Autumn Eastman and Tatum Braun all smiles at team dinner

Ed Hamilton making the skis even faster! Thanks Ed

that’s me – trying to keep the klister on the skis and not on everything else

Will Solow and Ben Longenbach in the tough 5km classic race

Don Harmeyer working hard, as always, in the wax tent. Thanks Don!

Eliza Thomas got her first experience as a J2 at the Eastern Cup level

NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION (in the Youth Men’s Biathlon Pursuit) Nathanael Kuzio

Ben Hegman skiing to a strong result in the 15km classic. Not far off the times of 2014 Olympian Kris Freeman in the prior race on Saturday!

BK Skiing 1/27-2/2 and photo round-up

By Adam Terko on 26 January, 2014 in BKL Jackrabbits, BKL Race Blog

BK Skiing

Tuesday 1/28 3:30 – 5:00 – Classic at the Range. BK Racing – agility drills, no pole and kick-DP Technique plus some race pace intervals.

Thursday 1/30 3:30 – 5:00 – MNC MINI MARATHON

This Thursday 1/30/14 3:30-5:00 we are going to make our BK practice a FUN Mini-Marathon.

We will give each skier a bib# and do some group warmup skiing then have them ski a marked course with friends to see how many laps they can do. Start as one big group at 4 PM and their last lap must be started by 4:45. Coach Rosemary is arranging for a feed/water station and we are asking parents to contribute and help by contacting her at mailto:shearv@aol.com. We will need Parents to help as Lap Counters and running the feed/water station. Items like cookies, animal crackers, fruit, treats are fine but let’s stay away from nuts just incase we have any allergy issues. Hot Cocoa inside at the end is fine too if a couple people want to take on the task. Please coordinate with Rosemary.

PENGUINS are welcome to join in on the fun if they have a parent to ski with them. We do not have designated coaches for that group on Thursdays.

Coaches will be on skis encouraging the kids and keeping on eye on them as they ski around the course. This is not a race but a chance to just ski/socialize a bit but also cover a lot of distance. Any technique is fine and kids are welcome to take breaks whenever they like. I will bring kick wax just for kids that want to classic ski.

Random Pics from the past week

See a slide show of duathlon pics from Andy Bishop at http://dariabishop.com/mnc_bkl_duathlon_2014.html

Camile Bolduc and Carl Nelson at the Duathlon

Virgina Cobb and Esther Cuneo at the MNC Duathlon

NENSA BK Director Abby Weissman – handing out lollipops

Baxter Bishop at the Duathlon

Greg Burt after the MNC Duathlon where he had a “photo finish” with Nathaniel Wells of Stowe.

Kate Carlson at Mtn top Paintball biathlon

Taylor Carlson at Mtn Top Paintball Biathlon

Sammi Nolan and Ali Priganc at Mtn Top

MNC High School Racers kicking butt!

By Adam Terko on 26 January, 2014 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Lots of high-school ski results are available via the CVU Nordic website.

Last Friday was one of the most exciting and anticipated races of the year for high school athletes: the annual Pursuit Race at the Range! MNC skiers really kicked major butt this year, with a SWEEP OF THE PODIUM on the girls side (Amy Bruce MMU, Abby Grab MMU and Chloe Lemmel-Hay Essex taking 1-2-3). Then Molly Larson (MMU) was 5th and Anna Franceschetti (CVU) really kicked butt and earned 7th overall! Some of our other Essex gals narrowly missed the top-30 but they are still relatively new to the sport (Kate Moino and Sarah Tallman). Other summer participants including Leslie Roberts (BFA) and Rachel Slimovitch (CVU) were amongst the top 30 overall.

On the guys’ side, Ethan John (Essex) went down in a crash at the start but came back for 2nd overall. Ethan Thibault (Colchester) had one of his best races of the year to get 6th and was in a3-way sprint for 4th. Casey Silk and Charlie Cobb were in the teens, Nigel Sarrazin and Ben Carnahan in teh low-20s, and perhaps performance of the day from Essex was Caleb Guziak –also soccer goalie extraordinnaire — in 20th.

Great job to all teh high school athletes so far this winter! There are so many athletes it is hard to keep track of everybody and I apologize if I missed some names. It is really fun to see all the hard work from the Summer and Fall earning athletes positions on their Varsity teams, helping them become Team Captains, and not to mention great results compared to athletes across the state! Go MNC!