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
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!!
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| SLU Girls on the last day! |
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| SLUSKI Family |
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| Emily and Dana pause from a skate ski |
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| Setting the Thanksgiving table! |
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| Dana wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| Emily, Kate, and Lucy happy about their thanksgiving feast! |
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| Foret looking pretty as always |
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| Hungry skiers happy for all the food!! |
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| Jackie and Kate on Friday thankful for the fresh snow! |
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| Dana happy about the great skiing |
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| Part of the race course on Saturday |
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| Some of the delicious food from our SLU thanksgiving feast! |
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| The view from the bridge at Foret |
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| Some of what we do in our free time |
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| One of the many delicious meals we made for dinner: Chili and Cornbread! |
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| Gabby '21 and Emily '20 during a skate ski off the 2k manmade snow loop! |
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| It started snowing thanksgiving night!! Here's the view from our driveway. |
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| Getting lots of thanksgiving food!! Featuring Ben, Dottie, GH, and Jordan. It was also Ben's Birthday!! |
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| A view from Quebec City on Tuesday night! |
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| The First year boys thought it would be nice of them to bring back an Ice Trophy from a run for their Captain Dana:) |
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| Tim being a trooper and unplugging the sink :) |
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| The basement entertainment room became a ski storage room, featuring Nathaniel and Ryland. |
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| The boys passed out in the van on the ride home after a time trial with the other college teams!! |
See you on the trails really soon!!
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