Coach Adam

Hello Ski Fans,

Temperatures of right around zero with a little fresh snow around to help ice up skis made the waxing difficult at Yesterday’s race. There was no perfect solution there was only a compromise of  enough grip in the track and then walking on ice clumps or challenging grip with fast skis; we chose fast skis. The people who could adapt their skiing for the feel of the track and snow had the best results. Maybe we should ski with less grip more often and practise running up the hills outside of the track as well. Thank you to Scott for the 8 hours of wax testing and application on Sunday plus the rest of the weekend.

We did manage to have some great results including: Nikhil 1st, Ian M1st with Gregor 3rd, Madeleine 3rd 1998, Hamish 4th with Oliver 5th 2001, Michelle 3rd with Abigail 7th, Alexandra 12th and racing in the 19 year old catagory Gareth 17 and David 28th in the Classic Race.

 

Saturday had a Skate Sprint for the Open Categories and those choosing to race up. In Junior Men David was 27th with Gareth 32nd and Alexandra was 18th in Jr. Women.

Saturday also had a Mass Start Skate race for the younger age categories so people were tripped and skis with SNS pilot Junior bingings were just knocked off. Don’t buy these poor quality bingings Please! 

We did have some great results though including: Nikhil 1st, Madeleine 1st 1998, Hamish 4th, Oliver 5th with Chet 6th 2001 and Michelle 5th with Abigail 6th 2001.

Thanks, Adam

Event	Rossland NorAm Dec 15th; Skate Sprint and Skate Distance Mass Start for Kootney CUP
Race Notice	HERE          Excel Version of Plan HERERossland NorAm + Kootney Cup 2013
Glide Wax your skis with:	Toko Red or Swix LF7
Athlete Meetings	8:30 pm Friday and 13:00 Saturday afternoon for Kootney Cupers
Distance/Course	500m	1 km	1.4 km	2.5km	2×2.5km	2×2.5km	1.6km	1.4 km
CATEGORY	ATOM	PEE WEE	BANTAM	MIDGET	JUVENILE	Jr. B Girl	O Men	Women	Time Needed
QUALIFYING Start Times	10:00	10:00	14:15	14:30	14:30	14:30	9:00	9:00
Start Warmup	9:15	9:15	13:30	13:45	13:45	13:45	8:15	8:15	0:45
Test Skis At	9:00	9:00	13:15	13:30	13:30	13:30	8:00	8:00	1:00
Be at Race and pick up bib	8:45	8:45	13:00	13:15	13:15	13:15	7:45	7:45	1:15
Skis to Wax tent	8:30	8:30	12:45	13:00	13:00	13:00	7:30	7:30	1:30
Depart Hotel	8:00	8:00	12:15	12:30	12:30	12:30	7:00	7:00	0:30
	ATOM	PEE WEE	BANTAM	MIDGET	JUVENILE	Jr. B Girl	O Men	Women
HEAT START TIMES							11:30	11:30
Start Warmup							10:45	10:45	0:45
Test Skis At							10:30	10:30	1:00
Testing Kick (Radio)
Arrive at
Testing Glide	Scott
Arrive at	7:15
Wax Bench Staff
1 Adjustments  FP	Adam
2 Wax Coordinator (Radio) FP	Scott
3 Bench	Tim Mayer
4 Final Prep	James Williams
5 Bench
6
7 Bench
8 Bench (Stadium Wax)
Bib Pickup	Jill	8am
Athlete responsible to check bib number matches start list
Athlete/Parent Coordinator	Jill	Athlete Greater		Cheering Coordinator
Warm Up Crew/Pepp Talk
1	Adam	Midget
2	Alistair	Bantam
3	Tim Mayer	PW
Splits
1st with Radio	NA
2nd Radio Back	NA
Technique Video Camera
Feeds?	NA
Wax Staff Lunches
Clean Up Crew
Warm Up
Start	Start	0:00	9:00	10:00	11:30	2:15	2:30
Get to Start	0:10	0:10	8:50	9:50	11:20	2:05	2:20
Easy	0:03	0:13	8:47	9:47	11:17	2:02	2:17
Race Pace not Sprint	0:02	0:15	8:45	9:45	11:15	2:00	2:15
Easy	0:02	0:17	8:43	9:43	11:13	1:58	2:13
Race Pace not Sprint	0:02	0:19	8:41	9:41	11:11	1:56	2:11
Easy	0:02	0:21	8:39	9:39	11:09	1:54	2:09
Tempo, AnT or Level 3	0:03	0:24	8:36	9:36	11:06	1:51	2:06
Easy	0:15	0:39	8:21	9:21	10:51	1:36	1:51
Event	December 15th NorAm Rossland Classic Individual Start
Race Notice
Glide Wax your skis with:	Toko Red or LF7
Athlete Meetings	Saturday at 8:30 pm
	.8km	1.4km	2	3.75 km	5km	5km	3x5km	2x5km
CATEGORY	ATOM	PEE WEE	BANTAM	MIDGET	JUVENILE	Jr. Girl	O Men	Women	Time Needed
Start Times	12:15	12:15	12:15	12:15	12:15	12:15	10:00	9:00
Start Warmup	11:30	11:30	11:30	11:30	11:30	11:30	9:15	8:15	0:45
Test Skis At	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15	11:15	9:00	8:00	1:00
Be at Race and pick up bib	11:00	11:00	11:00	11:00	11:00	11:00	8:45	7:45	1:15
Skis to Wax tent	10:45	10:45	10:45	10:45	10:45	10:45	8:30	7:30	1:30
Depart Hotel	10:15	10:15	10:15	10:15	10:15	10:15	8:00	7:00	2:00
Testing Kick (Radio)	Adam
Arrive at	7:00
Testing Glide	Scott
Arrive at	7:00
Wax Bench Staff
1 Adjustments (HILL?)	Adam
2 Wax Coordinator (Radio)	Scott
3	James	10:30
4	Tim Mayer
Bib Pickup	Jill	8:30
Athlete responsible to check bib number matches start list
Athlete/Parent Coordinator	Wendy
Warm Up Crew/Pepp Talk
1	Adam	Midget
2	Alistair	Bantam
3	Deepa	PW
Splits
1st with Radio	Mark
2nd Radio Back Split	Adam
Feeds for 15km Race	TOM