Saturday, February 18, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
final two weekends
The forecast refuses to get better as we go into the final two weekends. To be honest I don't think this can end soon enough. If all we had to do was go to races then fine as Trapps and Craftsbury should hold snow through the next few weeks just fine. The real hassel is keeping the training going in between without running everyday or driving a lot.
It looks like Caroline has an NCAA spot pretty well locked up after he 7th and 12th place finishes last week. Eric, Adam, Austin and Leah have an outside shot but need to have great races in the last 3 qualifiers. Regardless it will be difficult to find on snow training before heading out to Bozeman.
I am interested to see the conditions at Craftsbury where Williams had to move to this weekend. It sounds like it is better than Trapps which is pretty impressive considering the lack of natural snowfall. It is rather disappointing to have the relay cancelled this week, I think everyone was looking forward to it but so be it, I understand the difficulties and costs in moving races and am glad I just didn't have deal with it this year.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Skiing on campus
Snow in the North Country has been...nonexistent this year. We've still only skied at Higley once, but thanks to a grant we received earlier this year the team purchased a snowmobile and some equipment for a campus loop on our soccer fields. It proved to be pretty useful yesterday and today. Everything in sight is snowless and bare for miles, but in the far corner of the soccer practice fields is a patch of snow that has sat in the shade all winter and retained some of the white stuff. Yesterday Bob took out the new gear and groomed us up a small but very skiable stretch of fresh corduroy. The perfect amount of snow for some fast relay races and speeds, and it was refreshing to ski right from the equipment room without any van time. It'll be even better when we have enough snow to make a full course on campus.
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