Take your pick. Opening the plunge hole, which includes cutting the ice and pushing the blocks cut in to four, under, is a full body workout and have managed not to fall in (very close) after all the years.
The weekend started out as good as it gets with fresh snow falling that we groomed as it was snowing. George took my advice to clear the rink with skates and cuts the time in half. For never being on ice and snow, the foreign staff have adapted nicely and enjoying winter.
The final races in the JOQ series wrapped up at Green Acres which was moved from Battle Creek. Jake was outside of qualifying for the National team and knew if he wanted to punch his ticket to Salt Lake, he would have to have a career weekend. He did just that cashing in on group racing skills from mountain biking and Lotvola Cup racing to post his best distance finish at third place. Saturday he followed up with another top five finish posting the fourth best time and taking third in the pursuit. He was named to the team later that day. A huge accomplishment being a first year JO (last year was a J1) and the qualification was a bit harder this year possibly with the combination of J1 and JO classes.
Jonell and Jack down to catch the action. Nice for them to stay at the Aunt and Uncles and keep it homey. Thanks to them! We are both super proud of his year long hard work. We take a different approach, training wise, compared to most JO skiers and feel it is paying off. Keeping balance, a peace of mind and focus on the little things key but having fun mixing it up.(Thanks Bruce Adelsman of skinnyski for the photos and nice job with video from Saturday)
Jens had his first game of the season. He was super excited to play and had fun. His game was Saturday am and rest of weekend spent skiing and learning how to wax. Jens probably skate skied 25km this weekend and just heads out on his own skating all over the place and making up "short track courses". Jon's season is starting to wrap up and despite a bunch of kids being sick, they took a win over Roseau (always big to win against Roseau even if a down year for them) and a big league win on Sunday against Alex. A few days off to get healthy before the home tourney this weekend.
Sunday morning snuck out to check out the trails and enjoy some of the tracks that groomed up nicely Fri, Sat and Sun. Pretty much as good as it gets. Lower teens, sunshine and light winds made for best classic skiing of the year.
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Way to go Jake! That was a fun video to watch. Nice work out there.
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