Given how things have been going this was a reasonably successful weekend. Ben Knowles posted the best individual classic result in my tenure as head coach thus far with a 5th place. I wish could have seen the finish as he had to outsprint Patrick OBrien from Dartmouth in the final stretch. I was watching on the final uphill about .25K from the finish. The women continued to post solid results and Kalie had perhaps her best classic race result of her career with a 15th place finish. The sprints went about how sprints tend to go for us, not great but they are sprints so whatever. Not to say I wouldn't like to do well but I would rather see the team do well in the distance events. Isaac qualified 8th which was quite impressive, he is now on his yearly shot of antibiotics for a bacterial sinus infection that finally got diagnosed on Friday, hoping he can kick that out of his system and start posting the results that would reflect the level of effort he put into his dryland training this summer and fall over the second half of the season. Kalie and Kristen also qualified which was a solid showing.
After the sprint races I headed over to Old Forge with Bryan and Sophie to meet up with rest of the team that wasn't on the roster for the UVM carnival. It was a good time, not a lot of competition but they all did well enough to earn a spot on the Mid A team for Junior Nationals should they decide to go.
Dartmouth races are being held at Trapps again 5th year in a row now, kind of a bummer for Dartmouth but it doesn't really matter so much to me.
The competition for the very few NCAA spots is going to come down to the wire for certain, this weekend will be really big for that.
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