Tupper Lake Tinman, Kristen Bednar 2nd in Age Group!

Yesterday Kristen Bednar '09 raced the Tupper Lake Tinman Triathlon, a half ironman distance race that draws competitors from all over the US and Canada. Kristen finished 2nd in her age category of 20-24 and 111th overall in the 608 person field (16th woman overall).

Kevin Emblidge '06 also competed finishing 48th overall and 6th in his age group. Kevin unfortunately suffered some severe back spasms toward the end of the bike frustrating his efforts to move up throughout the run which is his strongest part of the race typically.

Simply finishing this grueling race in the high heat and humidity was quite an accomplishment.
Way to go Kristen and Kevin!

To see results try this link of search Tupper Lake Tinman 2008.
http://www.sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=43481

Up to the County

So I'm finaly up north in Aroostook county, or just the county for short, especially since its about 1/5 the area of the state. I'm living in an old farm house just out side of Caribou with four other skiers who are all probably here for the whole year. Unfortunately, the house is a bit of a mess right now since all the pipes froze and burst last winter. Since the damage is still being repaired, we spent almost all of today cleaning so the house will be somewhat live-able. Despite the long delay in getting up here, training has been going well mostly; the last week had a lot of travelling so it was hard to do much. On top of that, I had to get stitches in my right foot for a cut, so that had me off my feet a little too. Before all that though I got to do some good hiking while I was home, including two trips to Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington. The first trip was with Jake and the skiing was great (Jake took the picture at the top of Hillman's Highway); the second time was on June 3rd with a friend from high school and the weather was less than stellar (it rained hard after the first run) but there was still top to bottom skiing in left gully and the snow was surprisingly good. There were a couple of other skiers there and they thought there would still be skiable snow on July 1, well see about that, but I think I'm done for now. Besides, I've got plenty to do here now; along with good training, the county apparently has great stream fishing, so I brought my fly rod up. Now I just need to a job.

That’s right, and it wasn’t on Mount Washington (or on Sugarloaf Kyle). Last week was a pretty big week for me so this week is planned to be fairly low key. I decided to do a pretty easy hike/run today to the snowhole in Petersburg, NY (basically on the boarder of NY VT and MA). It’s about a 3-4 mile hike in on rolling terrain with some pretty sweet views along the way. Eventually you arrive at hole that’s about 40-50 feet deep. I really didn’t expect there to be snow on June 24th but sure enough there was quite a bit of snow left. Down in the lowest part it was probably about 40 degrees. Anyway, this weekend I'm changing it up, going for a mini vacation to the Cape, should be a good time.

Lanky's summer in the 'Sota

Hey everybody!

I've just gotten internet back after being cut off for about a week now, so I decided that I would celebrate by writing my first ever blog post. A very momentous occasion, I should think. Now, where to begin. I guess since I just finished reading Scuba's bit, I can tell everybody that Lanky too is employed. However, my job sounds significantly less cushy, as I've spent the last week or so chasing about 25 six and seven year-olds around one of the city parks. Tell you what, I've played more freeze tag in the last 3 days than I care to say. Aside from all that, training has been going pretty well overall, except for that one time when I waited out the hailstorm and then went out for a ski and got caught in a thunderstorm. (Later I found out that the weather guys were watching the storm that I got caught in for tornados, awesome right?) Anyhow, I'm trying to keep up with the plan and I'm looking forward to getting back and training with everybody and those lovely things that you easterners call hills. (I haven't found any incline longer than about two minutes at an easy run pace). Now, I'm off to eat a pizza, cheese if anybody was wondering.

Later,
Lanky

Summer

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone’s summer has been going well so far. I’m living and training at home this summer down in Southern Vermont. I have a pretty sweet “job,” caretaking an estate down the road. I have to check the houses daily and mow the lawn once a week. It’s pretty much a steal, it doesn’t require very much work and it pays really well. I’m also volunteering at the local bike shop once a week, learning how to work on bikes and stuff, pretty sweet.

Anyway as far as training goes, I looked at my training over last year and my results and I decided that I’m going to try and train more like I did during my senior year of high school. I unfortunately skied faster that year than I did last year. Doing this means running a lot more, more volume, and a little less intensity. Hopefully my body will respond to this training again. However training’s been a little frustrating for me so far this summer. The first week home for SLU I had my wisdom teeth out, I’m pretty pumped that I will never have to do that again. I got an infection from that, and then I pulled my groin a few weeks later somehow. Then last week I got this weird pain in my side running. Last year I went to the hospital for the same thing, they never figured out what it was. I’ve managed to follow my training plan pretty well somehow and I feel like I have a nice base going but it’s been frustrating. Luckily I think everything’s pretty much healed now. I did some running intervals this morning and I’m going to go out for an easy roller ski this afternoon. So hopefully I’m all set to get in a lot of quality training in the next few months before going back to school.

I hope everyone else is doing well; if anyone’s ever down in Southern Vermont for some reason, let me know I would love to train with someone.

-Steve

Post from Adam Terko '12

Hey everyone! I'll be a freshman next year, and I've tried to follow the
blog as much as possible-SLUSKI looks like an awesome team and I'm
really excited to be a part of it. My season this year was hectic, but
it ended on a great note as my friend John and I got to spend a ton of
time working the desk at Sleepy Hollow, where we train all winter. It
basically meant getting paid for stacking wood, watching Bill Koch
videos from the 80's and enjoying tons of sick spring skiing. I took a
break on a class trip to Italy, but when I came back I started training
in full force. I was getting in the most quality training I've ever had:
I finally got a new bike, I found a bunch of new running and hiking
trails, and rollerskiing felt better than ever. I even ran the Vermont
City half-marathon, like some other SLU skiers (I am NOT a runner, but
it was still great). Last Saturday though, I messed up my ankle running
down Camel's Hump on a hike/run OD. After a few days of limping around
with a ski-pole cane and using a skate boot as a makeshift cast, I made
it to the doctors. The X-ray came up negative for broken bones, but I've
been relegated to the upper body until at least the end of next week.
I've been living off strength workouts and the homemade rollerboard and
single-stick machines for a while, but I can finally double pole again.
I guess that's good, because I'm pretty scrawny and one of my summer
goals was to look more ripped in spandex. I'll have to wait a while to
run again, but I should be able to get back to some biking soon too.
There's enough stuff to do around here, so I don't think my body has
suffered too much. As for the rest of my summer, it's looking like work,
training, sleeping, training, and playing volleyball with a bunch of my
friends at the beach. At least that's what it's been so far. I'll be
training with the Mansfield Nordic club this summer, where I know
Kristen has worked before, and Hunter is now one of the summer coaches.
Sam Martell and Caroline Carpenter (my fellow teammate and classmate)
will also be there, so SLUSKI is well-represented in here in VT. Hope
everyone is having a great summer!
-Adam

Pictures:
John and I getting in some spring skiing (I'm in the white hat)

My sprained and fat foot

Still skiing in Bend

By Libby, From Bend OR,

Congraduations to all the graduates.

Though I didn't end up hiking the Adirondaks as planned, I am finally home for the
summer. It sure doesn't seem much like summer here though. The U.S. ski team is in town
so Mt. Bachelor is grooming Nordic trails. I have taken this opportunity to get some late
season snowy skate skiing in. I have been skiing at 6,000ft of elevation in the morning,
talk about tough to control your heart rate, and dry land training at 3,500ft in the
afternoon in shorts and a t-shirt.

I look forward to hearing more about the adventures of the summer and good luck in your
races.

And so it begins

Hey SLU SKI!

I hope everyone has had a great summer so far! I can't believe it is already June! I stuck around after exams to work for Student Life during senior week (set up and clean up...) which was exhausting but fun. Congrats to our new alums Kalie, Robin, Tyler, Hunter and Isaac! We knew you could do it! :)

From what I have heard it sounds like SLU skiers have been off to a great start on the summer training. Last I knew Libby was hiking for at least a week in the Adirondacks, Ben successfully biked home from SLU to Maine in two days (craziness) and rookie Caroline Carpenter, among many other skiers including myself, participated in the Burlington City Marathon! My roommate Lauren, on left, came to do the race with me and friend, Zoe also did half. Kalie did the whole thing in under 4 hours, a SLU skier was on the winning teams for the women’s and men’s two-person divisions! All in all, the weather was beautiful, the fans (many SLU SKI alums!) were awesome and it was a great weekend for SLU.

I broke out my rollerskis for the first time this past week (ouch) and will hopefully get my training routine going this week, after starting my summer job at IBM tomorrow (ah!). While the last two weeks of running errands with my mom have been fun...it will be great to get some routine in my life. It certainly helps that I have worked at IBM before and that they are super flexible with scheduling so hopefully I will be able to get my workouts in at some point...

I'm currently finishing up my training for the Tinman Triathlon in Tupper Lake at the end of June, and am getting ready for my host parents from Denmark to come visit me in Vermont in the next few weeks! As always, this summer is flying by...

I would love to hear how everyone else is doing...as I sit in my heavily air conditioned cubicle and try not to die of boredom...so send me or Ethan an update of your summer so we can post in the blog! Good luck and keep up the good work!