Climb to the Castle

Saturday morning a few members of the team headed down to Whiteface for the annual Climb To The Castle rollerski race. With competition from the Craftsbury Green Racing Project, US Ski Team, and the National Training group, it was a stacked field. It was great to see so much motivation for this race. Last year only Eric, Reed, Swayze and myself made the trip. This year we had 5 guys and 2 girls, and would've taken more if we had more drivers. Apparently waking up at 5:30 on a Saturday to race up a mountain in the rain didn't appeal to everyone...

Eric and Evan Martell had great races in the men's competition, skiing with strong packs and beating some big names and placing 24th and 29th. In a smaller but no less competitive women's race, Kate and Margot skied to 17th and 21st place. Kyle Curry and Evan Smith got to race for the first time with 'SLU' as their team, and coach Terko only got beat by Liz Stephen by a mere 8 minutes.

Here's a picture of Eric (from fasterskier) that pretty accurately sums up the weather. It was almost helpful to have fog preventing everyone from seeing just how far up we had to climb...


As always, Lakeview Deli in Saranac made for a great post-race lunch after the wind and rain of Whiteface. Here's a link to some results:

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