From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

Whiteface Photos

Clear and windy day for the Whiteface time trial.  5 miles, all uphill.  Oh, yeah.

The women’s field was much smaller than the men’s, but still included the fastest women in the country.

Things were a pretty tight in the men’s pack, especially off the start.

Tad Elliott (two l’s, two t’s — gotta love the double letters), took top honors for the CXC crew.  Men’s results here. Women’s results here.  Ski speed plays the biggest role in a time trial like this and the results don’t necessarily correlate to speed on snow.  In any case, it’s one heck of a workout!

Newell leads Gregg and Liebsch up one of the flatter (seriously!) parts of the climb.

Yee-ha.