Author: JGregg

  • Grooms Dinner Slide Show

    This was shown at the grooms dinner the night before the wedding.   Click     Grooms Dinner Slide Show  You will then need to down load a  ’presenter’ to make it work.

  • Grooms Dinner Slide Show

    This was shown at the grooms dinner the night before the wedding.   Click     Grooms Dinner Slide Show  You will then need to down load a  ’presenter’ to make it work.

  • Gregg and Liebsh Three legged Champions

    The 50k Sleeping Giant Loppet happened today in Thunderbay, Canada. We will post the photo of the finish as soon as possible which will explain everthing. Caitlin also took the top spot for the women.

    For results, click here.

  • Birkie Cold

    It was a tight finish for the guys freestyle, CXC Bryan Cook  was the 1st American, 5th overall.  CXC also had the other top U. S. finishes with Brian Gregg  2nd American, 8th overall and Matt Liebsch just a hair off .    Result times shown are confusing due to ‘starting gun time’ for the first 6 finishers and ‘chip time’ for all others.    complete results

    Video of the men’s exciting finish. 

     Congratulations to Caitlin who took the top spot for the womans freestyle.

     
    Video of Caitlin’s finish and wedding info!
     
     

    Caitlin, with race cheeks, working the crowd

    Photo finish for some. Brian #11 in the red hat.

     

    Who is that guy in black in the finish area? Photo Credit: David J. Owen

    Chad finished in the same time as he did a few years ago.

    Liet finished just over 5 hours and in good spirts!!!!.  Congratulations on her first Birkie.

  • Reports of fever in the area

    Birkie Fever…………..

  • Watch Birkie Live

     

    This will be the link   http://www.livestream.com/birkie

    Let’s hope it works!

  • SuperTour ski races canceled; Madison Winter Festival downsized due to protests

    Yuriy Gusev had worked hard on this event.  Here is a local article from the Journal Sentinel discribing the unfortunate situation. 

    By Tom Held of the Journal Sentinel

    Feb. 18, 2011

    A stripped-down version of the Madison Winter Festival will match up with the Hoofers Winter Carnival on the UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace Friday night, but much of the festival has been lost to the protests on the Capitol Square.  The only event salvaged from the Winter Fest melt-down will be the Jeep Downtown Throwdown, a snowboard rail jam competition.  Organizers had expected 40,000 to 60,000 competitors and spectators for the 7th annual Winter Festival, expanded to include a 5K run, a cyclo-cross-style bike race, sledding, skating and other winter activities.

    The thaw wasn’t a problem. Organizers had 90 truckloads of snow ready to spread around the Capitol Square to create the 1/2-kilometer race course for elite and amateur cross-country skiers.

    Authorities pulled the permits, however, because of the ongoing protests over a budget repair bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from public workers. Tens of thousands have surrounded the capitol for much of the week and more demonstrations are expected on Saturday.

    “State and city pulled away our permit so we cannot have any events this weekend on the square,” said Yuriy Gusev, founder and director of the Winter Festival. ”We might have some events at the other location but all races are canceled.

    “It was a long day and we looked in every possible option but unfortunately not much we can do about it.”
     
    Gusev confirmed Friday afternoon that no races would be held at Elver Park, as reported by other media sources.
  • Owl Creek Chase

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    A great Colorado day on a challenging course that had a wall at the top of it. I moved back from the lead pack near the end.