Easterns Day 3
Sam Anthony
Here's what all you parents reading have been waiting for, news from the first day of races. For most of us (except Maya Boivin who raced in the sprints at some ungodly hour of the morning ), we had a leisurely morning, eating breakfast around 9:30 and driving out to the races at about 11:30. We successfully navigated our way out of the parkade and made all of our exits on the way to the race (at least the van with me navigating did). We plowed through people in the clubhouse in order to grab a bit of floor space for our bags, much to Cams excitement, we took the same table as the National Team of Canada. We tried to act cool while we put on our boots and ate our lunches. We managed to catch the last of Maya's heats before heading out on the trails to warm-up. Even the warm-up loops were crowded but we eventually made our way out of the pack and into the start zone to do some Dynamic stretching. The race itself was a 3km skate prologue (same distance for all ages under 18) with a 15 second interval start. The course was fast and fun, with one massive hill about 500m in, followed by a huge downhill and some small ups and downs back into the stadium, we then climbed one last medium sized hill before doing a u-turn, descending back into the stadium and finishing up on the brutally windy 100m of false flat into the finish. After the race, everyone seemed pretty happy about how it went, the skis were terrifically fast, and with close to 80 athletes in every field you really got a chance to see where you fit in on a national level (it also means that I got a new personal best of beating 21 skiers). After the races the older group of us (those who started first), went to the food tent and chowed down on free cheese curds, cookies and brownies, some of us had the healthier options but I'm not sure exactly what they were, I didn't pay too much attention to that end of the tent. With our bellies full we cheered on all the midgets and then nagged them to hurry up and pack their skis so we could go back to the hotel. Tomorrow we've got our first longer race, ranging from 5 to 10km, still skate and still interval start.
Sam Anthony
Here's what all you parents reading have been waiting for, news from the first day of races. For most of us (except Maya Boivin who raced in the sprints at some ungodly hour of the morning ), we had a leisurely morning, eating breakfast around 9:30 and driving out to the races at about 11:30. We successfully navigated our way out of the parkade and made all of our exits on the way to the race (at least the van with me navigating did). We plowed through people in the clubhouse in order to grab a bit of floor space for our bags, much to Cams excitement, we took the same table as the National Team of Canada. We tried to act cool while we put on our boots and ate our lunches. We managed to catch the last of Maya's heats before heading out on the trails to warm-up. Even the warm-up loops were crowded but we eventually made our way out of the pack and into the start zone to do some Dynamic stretching. The race itself was a 3km skate prologue (same distance for all ages under 18) with a 15 second interval start. The course was fast and fun, with one massive hill about 500m in, followed by a huge downhill and some small ups and downs back into the stadium, we then climbed one last medium sized hill before doing a u-turn, descending back into the stadium and finishing up on the brutally windy 100m of false flat into the finish. After the race, everyone seemed pretty happy about how it went, the skis were terrifically fast, and with close to 80 athletes in every field you really got a chance to see where you fit in on a national level (it also means that I got a new personal best of beating 21 skiers). After the races the older group of us (those who started first), went to the food tent and chowed down on free cheese curds, cookies and brownies, some of us had the healthier options but I'm not sure exactly what they were, I didn't pay too much attention to that end of the tent. With our bellies full we cheered on all the midgets and then nagged them to hurry up and pack their skis so we could go back to the hotel. Tomorrow we've got our first longer race, ranging from 5 to 10km, still skate and still interval start.
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| Lucas tearing up the trails |
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| Cameron putting the hammer down |
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| Levi laying on the pain |
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| Katie Killin' it |
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| Fiona flying up the hills |
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| Anna lookin' fly |
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| #BFFS |
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| Kenora plus Elora |
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| Simon, rocking the raceteam suit |
#bffs
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