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!