Well I really didn't want to write to much about Dartmouth. This isn't very fair to the women's team however since their season has gone pretty well so far. Unfortunately for those that pay attention the men's team had, for lack of a kinder way of putting it, an embarrassing day on Friday last week and really only an okay day on Saturday. For us to be tenth says this for sure. The EISA is a very talented league. This year as compared to even a couple years ago, no team is fielding racers who don't know how to ski. It used to be that toward the back of the field there was always a few who were really just beginners, not anymore. While I am not sure that the top of the field (top 5-10) is significantly more competitive on a National level it certainly is the case that even through the top 30 or 40 racers in both the men's and women's field there are very well prepared and skilled athletes. This is probably in large part due to the hard work of so many junior racing programs that have started and expanded in the past 10 years or so.
Well anyway enough on that. The guys are certainly looking forward to tomorrow and trying to put last Friday behind us, way behind us.
Back to the women, we had a great Valentines day driving down to Bennington, Kalie provided the music. I think our goal tomorrow would be 5th or better as a team and to put someone in the top 10 which we haven't done on the women's side this year. Last week on Saturday saw a breakthrough performance for Johannah with 24th place and Kalie after suffering a rather harsh crash just 1/2K in moved up from last place to 22nd on one of the most difficult courses you will see, Oak Hill did not disappoint. Kristen was in the top 20 (12/18) both days and Robin is still having her best season yet in her senior year.
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