Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Congrats Lucy and Tim!!

https://www.teamusa.org/US-Biathlon/News/2017/December/30/Teams-Named-for-2018-Youth-Junior-Worlds-IBU-Cup--Junior-European-Championships

Lucy, Tim, and Jackie all competed in Minnesota for the US Biathlon Youth and Junior Trials for World Championships! Unfortunately, the third day was canceled due to cold weather. 


Lucy H and Nina Armstrong

First Race Recap and results here
Jackie, Lucy, and Tim all placed 3rd in their categories!

Second Race Recap and results here
Lucy was 2nd, Jackie was 13th, and Tim was 4th! Unluckily Jackie had the wrong ammo on the second day, but with her category having more racers, she still showed them up!


Jackie


Tim

We are proud of you Saints! Way to go! 

Recap of the two weeks before break continued

Post 2, Continued

So...the week of Dec. 11th, we were able to get back to Higley, our regular training stomping ground.  It was a little bit thinner than Star Lake, but with it being the last week of classes, it was nice not to have to travel as far.  The two main workouts for the week were classic ski intervals on Wednesday and then races at Nakkertok in Canada on Saturday and Sunday.  With the first Eastern Cup in Fort Kent, Maine, and it being right before the week of finals, we knew we had to come up with an alternative.  Nakkertok ski club in Gatineau, Canada was hosting a weekend of racing called: "The Candy Cane Cup".  They were just as awesome and productive for our team as an Eastern Cup and the race format of the weekend was almost the same.

More photos from the race:
Pictures here

On Saturday, Jackie, Lucy, Tim, Matt M, Matt Y, Ben, and GH all raced in the Skate Sprints and represented our team very well!  Saturday Results

Lucy on the podium

Lucy again! Some pictures are from Saturday and some from Sunday- There are multiple because they also awarded the top University skiers for the day as well!

Tim!!

Lucy!

Dana and Lucy on the University Podium!

Lucy!

Another picture of Dana and Lucy on the University Podium

On Sunday, our team again did great! With it being -10 when we arrived, the classic race was postponed an hour.   It was a 1.7km course for 5 loops. Tim, Nathaniel, GH, Matt M, all raced for boys. Tim got 3rd overall and Nathaniel got 8th!  Alum Phil Marshall placed 13th with GH not too far behind in 21st. Lucy, Dana, Erin, Eliza, Gabby, and Emily all raced for girls. Lucy placed second after a superb day on Saturday, with Dana not too far behind in 5th place! Erin also did well, placing in 12th.  Emily was clearly not feeling right because she ended up doing an extra lap! The course was 5 laps, starting in a field and gradually going up to a 180 turn around and coming back down into the field, but then going up a big hill.  Coming down the hill, you would gain more speed than you would expect and near the bottom you had to make a sharp left turn, but the turn was banked. With the embankment, lots of skiers were snow plowing making the turn very icy.  Nonetheless, the Saints had another great day! Although it was cold and the trail was tricky, everyone was in good spirits. The coaches also crushed the waxing job.

Sunday Results












Thanks for following us! We are on break for awhile now.  Some of us head to JNQ races at Gore Mtn. on Jan. 5th, while the rest of us drive to Mont Sainte Anne in Canada.  We will then all have a week of training at MSA up until the Colby Carnival on the 13th at Quarry Road in Waterville, Maine!  We are excited and looking forward to seeing everyone on the trails!

Hope you are all enjoying the holidays and staying warm!
-SLUSKI

Recap of the two weeks before break

A bit delayed due to finals and wrapping up our first semester work, but now that we've been on break for the holidays, we can finally recap everything we did in the last two weeks before break!

The week of December 4th, two weeks before break, we went to Suny Canton that Wednesday and did bounding intervals to please the snow gods and sure enough, during the workout it started to look a lot like Christmas! It went from nothing on the ground to a good covering of snow, making the uphills a little bit slippery.  It was blowing so hard and it got cold real quick as the sun went down.  It was a great hard effort and the Saints pushed through.

Bob grooming Star Lake

The next few days we went to Star Lake and the skiing was AH-Mazing! Thanks to Coaches Bob and Kyle for grooming, we probably had the best skiing in the Northeast.  It wasn't like any December skiing we have had in the past! Thursday was an absolute snow storm and the driving to Star Lake got a little bit hairy...you can ask the passengers in the back of Dana's van (Sorry, guys). The classic skiing on Friday was so beautiful and the fresh snow was just so nice. 

Star Lake map of our groomed loop

Star Lake featuring George

Saturday was the first annual (hopefully?) time trial Skiathalon at Star Lake with Clarkson! The boys started first at 10:30am and the girls stated closely behind. The race was about 9k (2x4.5k loops) with classic first. The time trial was complete with a transition near the parking lot where we had to change out our classic ski boots and skis to skate, a mandatory 2 minute transition.  It was a great way to practice our pre-race routines and get another hard effort in. The day ended up being really beautiful.

Dottie in the Skiathalon- Photo Creds: Jordan S.

Here are the results:

Final Position

Last Name

First Name

Team

Bib Number

Classic Spilt

Skate Split

Transistion

Time Added Subtracted (M:SS)

Time Net

1

Jarvinen

George

SLU

10

11:44.7

11:02.3

01:36.6

00:23.4

24:47.0

2

Young

Matt

SLU

1

11:30.5

11:33.1

02:28.8

00:28.8

25:03.6

3

Cunningham

Tim

SLU

9

11:21.7

11:44.3

01:53.3

00:06.7

25:06.0

4

Perkins

Nathaniel

SLU

8

11:44.9

11:33.2

02:37.5

00:37.5

25:18.1

5

Werowinski

GH

SLU

4

11:57.8

11:26.7

02:12.8

00:12.8

25:24.5

6

Carnahan

Ben

SLU

6

12:11.7

11:49.0

01:52.9

00:07.1

26:00.7

7

Manwaring

Matt

SLU

2

13:17.3

12:11.9

05:05.1

03:05.1

27:29.2

8

Hochschartner

Lucy

SLU

12

13:08.9

12:27.9

02:30.5

00:30.5

27:36.8

9

Dunn

Tim

CLK

3

12:50.6

12:59.2

02:58.7

00:58.7

27:49.8

10

Garso

Jackie

SLU

15

14:01.2

12:17.3

02:25.9

00:25.9

28:18.5

11

Hatton

Dana

SLU

14

14:13.9

12:52.0

02:46.3

00:46.3

29:05.9

12

Andy

Kate

SLU

16

14:32.2

12:42.9

02:19.5

00:19.5

29:15.1

13

Anderson

Dottie

SLU

19

13:57.6

13:39.8

02:22.0

00:22.0

29:37.4

14

Wangler

Gabby

SLU

17

14:40.8

13:08.7

02:20.8

00:20.8

29:49.5

15

Laird

Dani

SLU

20

14:14.5

13:37.2

02:56.4

00:56.4

29:51.7

16

Thomas

Eliza

SLU

22

14:42.5

13:09.2

02:27.6

00:27.6

29:51.7

17

Siegel

Emily

SLU

24

14:02.3

13:57.7

02:19.2

00:19.2

30:00.0

18

Giraldi

Mike

CLK

5

14:42.6

13:21.7

02:19.6

00:19.6

30:04.3

19

Waters

Erin

SLU

18

14:42.4

13:42.1

02:39.0

00:39.0

30:24.5

20

Duclos

Sarah

CLK

11

14:49.9

13:34.7

02:14.4

00:14.4

30:24.6

21

Wangler

Bridget

CLK

21

15:30.5

13:59.1

02:07.3

00:07.3

31:29.6

22

Brown

Aliya

SLU

23

14:58.9

14:34.3

01:59.2

00:00.8

31:33.2

23

Buck

PJ

CLK

7

14:37.4

15:18.9

02:41.1

00:41.1

31:56.3

24

Utiger

Raili

CLK

13

15:39.0

14:30.1

02:30.4

00:30.4

32:09.1

See the next post for the last week before break! Thanks for reading!

Snow, Snow, Snow, Get on the Snow

By Nathaniel Perkins '21

After Thanksgiving camp ended, the Saints were allotted Sunday and Monday to rest up for the week ahead. Many took this an opportunity to catch up on sleep or work for the academically and athletically challenging week that lied ahead. On Tuesday, we went for a ski at Higley Flow State Park. The snow was shallow, but the excitement to be skiing again was high. However, the next day it was back to dry-land training for us. We did some running intervals right here in Canton to prepare for the hours in the van that laid ahead. Thursday through Saturday we traveled to Lake Placid to get on the loop ORDA had made down there. The loop was great, but we were definitely starting to get dizzy on the 500M they had pushed out, (especially ab boy GH who is two for two on the Triac breaks this week. I also snapped one, but let’s not talk about it..). 

Dana excited about the mini loop in LP followed by Gabby, GH, and Nathaniel

To get on some more snow, we headed up to Nakkertok in Canada for Sundays session. 

Team together after a hard interval session with Carleton at Nakkertok in Gatineau, Canada- Sunday, Dec. 3rd

At Nakkertok, we did some L4 intervals with the team over at Carleton University. It was nice to have some other fast skiers there, and we definitely pushed each other in the intervals. This was especially evident by the snoring on the van ride home. It was a tough week for us coming right off camp, but hopefully weeks like this will just make us faster going into race season. 

Here We Go Saints!

-Nathaniel

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Some photos from the last day in Canada of our race time trial from our Thanksgiving week break-
Photos taken by Emily Siegel '20

Matt M cruising by

Ben C powering on by

GH v2ing over the top of the hill

Matt Y pushing through

Tim C skiing strong to a 46th place finish

Erin W back on the snow and racing from a semester away in the woods

Kate A gliding on by for a 25th place finish

Dana H skiing hard to a top 10 finish

Lucy H crushing the race for a 2nd place finish

Jackie G hammering for a 13th place finish

Foret: the last post

The final post of our stupendous week at Foret and...Dana's last recap of Foret with SLU:/

Thanksgiving was amazing with a wide variety of food, including: 2 turkeys, mashed potatoes, mashed squash, green beans and green bean casserole, homemade cranberry sauce, gravy, 4 pumpkin pies, apple crisp, strawberry/rhubarb pies, maple glazed carrots, peas and carrots, bread rolls, salad, stuffing, and Brussel sprouts! It was a feast and many hands made light work!  This team can eat! We went through a lot of food and especially milk and juice...uhmm hmm boys. 

These posts are mostly pictures since they probably tell more than I can in words.  It was a crazy, but super training week.  We ended the week with a 5k time trial off the 2k manmade loop with other teams, including: Laval, OSI, Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, UVM, Middlebury, UMPI, and Carleton. The course started at a bridge and went slightly down and then a quick up for about 2k, it then took a sharp right turn and went up and up.  It was then rolling into the finish.  The trail was not groomed on the last 3k, and the first 2k was only packed down.  It made for some tricky balancing and uneven skiing, but we persevered.  It was an especially great day for George, Lucy, Jackie and Dana! Some of our team got sick during the week and were unable to start the race unfortunately.  Luckily this race doesn't mean much in terms of what's to come since it was only a time trial and we've had a long, hard volume week..our bodies are tired and ready for a good 2 days of recovery! Nonetheless, we hope it speaks somewhat to what is to come for those who had a great day!

We arrived back on campus Saturday night around 7:30pm and unloaded the vans and trailer.  We headed to Coach Townsend's house for pizza, salad, and wings, and then we trucked back to our dorms for a restful sleep.

Results posted here

SLU Girls on the last day!

SLUSKI Family

Emily and Dana pause from a skate ski

Setting the Thanksgiving table!

Dana wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Emily, Kate, and Lucy happy about their thanksgiving feast!

Foret looking pretty as always

Hungry skiers happy for all the food!!

Jackie and Kate on Friday thankful for the fresh snow!

Dana happy about the great skiing

Part of the race course on Saturday

Some of the delicious food from our SLU thanksgiving feast!

The view from the bridge at Foret

Some of what we do in our free time

One of the many delicious meals we made for dinner: Chili and Cornbread!

Gabby '21 and Emily '20 during a skate ski off the 2k manmade snow loop!

It started snowing thanksgiving night!! Here's the view from our driveway.

Getting lots of thanksgiving food!! Featuring Ben, Dottie, GH, and Jordan. It was also Ben's Birthday!! 

A view from Quebec City on Tuesday night!

The First year boys thought it would be nice of them to bring back an Ice Trophy from a run for their Captain Dana:)

Tim being a trooper and unplugging the sink :) 

The basement entertainment room became a ski storage room, featuring Nathaniel and Ryland.

The boys passed out in the van on the ride home after a time trial with the other college teams!!

Thanks for reading the blog and we hope you stay tuned in as we prepare for our final four weeks of school before winter break! We hope everyone had as great a week as we did. 

See you on the trails really soon!!