Monday, December 14, 2015

Silver Star NorAm

This past weekend thirteen MVNT racers and accompanying parents and coaches travelled back to Silver Star BC for the first race of the season. The race was a NorAm held at Sovereign Lakes Nordic Center and had participants from all over Canada as well as the US. This being a race with high level athletes and focused more on the older skiers, some of our team members had to race up in age categories in order to compete.  This made for some exciting competition and all our skiers rose exceptionally well to the challenge.
Skiers prepping for their starts!
 We left the valley Friday morning and made our way up North arriving in time for a preview of the courses. Saturday was a sprint race around the stadium and Sunday a distance race with distances varying from 2.5km to 15km on the World Cup course.
On the sprint day we had most our skiers make it into the rounds with good performances from everyone. Both Ella Hall and Novie McCabe made it to the B Finals in their age categories and ended up placing tenth.
A happy Novie
The following day proved to be mildly challenging conditions with snow and wind adding a little fun to the race. Again, everyone did very well and we had several podium finishes.
Emerson starting his 5km strong
Results can be found via the following links:
http://zone4.ca/results.asp?id=7774 - Sprints

http://zone4.ca/results.asp?id=7777 - Distance
Tired at the finish..
All and all it was a great weekend with lots of experience, fun and fast skiing! Stay in touch for updates on our next adventures!!


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