Race day waxing can be hectic, so rest easy the night before the Pre-Birkie by waxing in advance. Above, the author helps classic racers at the Mora Vasaloppet apply the klister of the day.
Following is the Cyclova XC Racing Service Birkie Wax tip for the 3 major wax brands of the region. Note that these are not officially endorsed wax tips by the wax companies, rather these are tips
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| There is nothing better than nailing a perfect little adventure ski in Vermont. This winter has been abnormal in the way of having relatively stable temperatures and tons of low density snow. Last week we had a warming event that finally transformed a dreamlike amount of New England Powder into denser, but no less spectacular pack. Touring centers with heavy duty grooming equipment can make the most perfect trail surface right now. Off trail skiing offers a supportive, yet breakable crust — and two nights ago we got a nice frosting of fluff to cover…
A highlight of our yearly Flex Term sessions is the Adventure Ski. Depending on current conditions we seek to find a route that will offer challenge, a sense of completing a journey and if at all possible — euphoric descents. Due to the firm underlying snow I chose to take a group of three boys on a VAST Snowmobile Tour. Over the course of thirteen miles we traveled through pieces of Catamount Trail, the Rikert Touring Center at Breadloaf, Blueberry Hill Trails and the VAST. Thank you Elliot, Parker and Nathanael for a spirited adventure! |
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| Our route followed the 7A Corridor from Junction AN 13 to the Parking area on Route 53 along Lake Dunmore. The route rolled and climbed up to Sugar Hill Reservoir, before dropping south of Mt. Moosalamoo. At that point the fun began as the trail descended alongside Sucker Brook, complete with a final plummet at the Falls of Lana. |
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| Sometimes adventures don’t seem quite like adventures if you have a map … but the Vermont Snowmobile Trail Map is a great resource for cross-country skiers. On VAST Trails it is nice to have a map as signage is sometimes vague and it’s often a long way between junctions. Always a good idea to consult the map at major junctions to keep your piece of mind. |
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| Parker and Nathanael taking a snack break mid-climb up a “Monster.” |
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| Elliot and his handy tow strap — a valuable safety and instructional tool for younger skiers who might not otherwise be able to join such a challenging ski. |
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| Elliot charging the downhill into Sugar Hill Res with alacrity. |
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| Parker chased freshies along the entire trail. |
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| Absolute freedom. Catching some rare air with skinny skis — does it get better? |
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| Lining up a technical descent. |
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| Yup, it’s gonna be a good day. |
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| Climbing out of Sucker Brook at the Sugar Hill Dam. |
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| Sugar Hill Reservoir with Worth Mountain in the backround. |
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| Face shots are often hard to come by in Vermont — here Elliot works hard to get some. |
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| Signs at the destination. |
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| Welcome to the mix Tank. |
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| Enjoying some touring last week in Granville Gulf before the powder transformation. |
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| Leah, Noah and Rafter enjoying some quality time along the Route 100 corridor. |
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| Leah and Valentina keeping it light at the Flex Term wax session. |
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| Hans and Jackson getting some local press for skinny skiing in the Valley.
Life is good. The snowpack is perfect. Get out there and get some! |
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| There is nothing better than nailing a perfect little adventure ski in Vermont. This winter has been abnormal in the way of having relatively stable temperatures and tons of low density snow. Last week we had a warming event that finally transformed a dreamlike amount of New England Powder into denser, but no less spectacular pack. Touring centers with heavy duty grooming equipment can make the most perfect trail surface right now. Off trail skiing offers a supportive, yet breakable crust — and two nights ago we got a nice frosting of fluff to cover…
A highlight of our yearly Flex Term sessions is the Adventure Ski. Depending on current conditions we seek to find a route that will offer challenge, a sense of completing a journey and if at all possible — euphoric descents. Due to the firm underlying snow I chose to take a group of three boys on a VAST Snowmobile Tour. Over the course of thirteen miles we traveled through pieces of Catamount Trail, the Rikert Touring Center at Breadloaf, Blueberry Hill Trails and the VAST. Thank you Elliot, Parker and Nathanael for a spirited adventure! |
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| Our route followed the 7A Corridor from Junction AN 13 to the Parking area on Route 53 along Lake Dunmore. The route rolled and climbed up to Sugar Hill Reservoir, before dropping south of Mt. Moosalamoo. At that point the fun began as the trail descended alongside Sucker Brook, complete with a final plummet at the Falls of Lana. |
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| Sometimes adventures don’t seem quite like adventures if you have a map … but the Vermont Snowmobile Trail Map is a great resource for cross-country skiers. On VAST Trails it is nice to have a map as signage is sometimes vague and it’s often a long way between junctions. Always a good idea to consult the map at major junctions to keep your piece of mind. |
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| Parker and Nathanael taking a snack break mid-climb up a “Monster.” |
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| Elliot and his handy tow strap — a valuable safety and instructional tool for younger skiers who might not otherwise be able to join such a challenging ski. |
|
| Elliot charging the downhill into Sugar Hill Res with alacrity. |
|
| Parker chased freshies along the entire trail. |
|
| Absolute freedom. Catching some rare air with skinny skis — does it get better? |
|
| Lining up a technical descent. |
|
| Yup, it’s gonna be a good day. |
|
| Climbing out of Sucker Brook at the Sugar Hill Dam. |
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| Sugar Hill Reservoir with Worth Mountain in the backround. |
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| Face shots are often hard to come by in Vermont — here Elliot works hard to get some. |
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| Signs at the destination. |
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| Welcome to the mix Tank. |
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| Enjoying some touring last week in Granville Gulf before the powder transformation. |
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| Leah, Noah and Rafter enjoying some quality time along the Route 100 corridor. |
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| Leah and Valentina keeping it light at the Flex Term wax session. |
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| Hans and Jackson getting some local press for skinny skiing in the Valley.
Life is good. The snowpack is perfect. Get out there and get some! |
Following up on the previous post looking at distance results, the same graphs for the sprinters. Obviously, sprinting hasn’t been around as long and there’s typically only one sprint race per championship event, so “results per race” is kind of a silly metric to use, but whatever.
There’s a lot less to say here, so I’ll let you provide your own commentary. First the men:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wsc_men_spr.png" "wsc_men_spr")
Go Russian sprinters! Now for the women:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wsc_wom_spr.png" "wsc_wom_spr")
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I just wanted to pass on some websites where you can view and purchase photos from the World Cups in Presque Isle and Fort Kent, Maine captured by American photographers:
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I just wanted to pass on some websites where you can view and purchase photos from the World Cups in Presque Isle and Fort Kent, Maine captured by American photographers:
I just wanted to pass on some websites where you can view and purchase photos from the World Cups in Presque Isle and Fort Kent, Maine captured by American photographers:
I just wanted to pass on some websites where you can view and purchase photos from the World Cups in Presque Isle and Fort Kent, Maine captured by American photographers:
These previews will be very general and quick, basically just charting the overall performance of the major nations in championship events (Olympics and World Championships) over time. We’ll start with the men’s distance events:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wsc_men_dst.png" "wsc_men_dst")
The measurement here is “results per race”, so for instance the Norwegian men averaged 1 Gold medal per race in the Albertville Olympics (yes, that’s all of them!).
You can see the slow, bumpy decline in top thirty performances for the Norwegian men over time, and the dramatic drop in top ten results recently. The Finns naturally had a major decline in 2002 and haven’t really recovered fully since then. The German men of course were quite the powerhouse culminating in a very strong showing in the 2007 World Champs. But of course they’ve seen some retirements and several others just aren’t skiing that fast anymore. The Italians have also seen a slow decline, generally.
Here’s the same graph for the women:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wsc_wom_dst1.png" "wsc_wom_dst")
There’s the, um, interesting spike in 2001 for the Finnish women, and of course the gradual decline of the Russian women is fairly obvious. Then there’s the dramatic uptick for the Swedish women thanks to Charlotte Kalla’s performance at the Olympics last year.
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I took this picture on my very first ski of the year which was back in early December I think. I’d heard there was snow on the Birkie trail, so I jumped into my bruised and battered Subaru sport and made the long and lonesome drive up to Cable to jump on “OO.” I skied for 2 hours on a 4 km loop, and I haven’t been able to get back to the Birkie trail since.
…sniff….
Normally that’s a recipe
I’m not going to spend much time on this topic, since obviously it wasn’t a great day for the North Americans, but we can at least put a few of the results in some sort of context using my new-fangled graph, starting with some of the men:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nam_men.png" "nam_men")
I’m sticking with the folks who’ve done more races, here, just to keep things brief. As I mentioned before, I’m plotting the standardized percent back from the median skier, with Saturday’s classic race highlighted with the blue circle. The blue line marks the median trend (by season) over time, except for seasons with fewer than two distance races. In Harvey’s case, I don’t think that race was all that bad, just not spectacular. Kershaw definitely was a bit below where he normally is, though.
Here’s the corresponding graph for (a few of) the women:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nam_wom.png" "nam_wom")
Actually, Crawford and Gaiazova’s races weren’t too bad, compared to how they’ve done in the past.
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That’s Canadian for BKL Festival, to which our younger group went this past weekend. But let’s back up first…
Last week amongst numerous visitors, our BKL contingent was joined by an additional 5 girls for a 5 day camp. After Wednesday and Thursday at school, on Friday morning we perfected our V2 and V2Alt, waxed our skis, ate lunch, packed up the van and headed up to the great white north (although it was 50 degrees out). The trip was too easy (no problems at the border, no unplanned bathroom stops), until we got to Montreal just after 5pm. We hit a traffic jam that added about 45 minutes onto our 5 hour trip. Fortunately, a couple in the car ahead of us was still celebrating Valentine’s day, and kept 7 young girls giggling and glued to the windshield….
We cruised into Joliette, Quebec and found our Boston Pizza restaurant. Boobs had recommended this chain, and he was right, it’s a great place to grab some pasta or a pizza when in Canada.
After dinner we headed to our hotel – the Joliette High School! In Canada their “Midget Championships” are more of a club deal and parents don’t come, or stay somewhere else. Each team is assigned a classroom (or a gym – if you have a large team). It is quite the scene, and most likely a germ factory – especially at this time of year. After we got settled in our room, my first coach’s talk was about sanitation – wash, wash, wash your hands, and no picking your nose.
That big blue mattress is Tess’. You can see the other girls vying to sleep on it as well. She obviously won the award for the most plush sleeping accessory. Pippen and Katherine remembered extra blankets, and Carly her bear and her Clifford blanket. I had the best pillow.
So off to bed we went with a plan in hand for the next morning – breakfast at the school at 7:30, drive to the venue at 8. Here we are on our way Saturday morning – notice the team headbands – courtesy of Abby from NENSA. Thanks NENSA, and Abby! They are great.
We arrived in time to preview the course -which was a good thing! It was pretty icy after the temp dropped from 45 degrees to 10 degrees overnight. They also shortened the course from 4k to 3k as a downhill on the outer section was deemed too dangerous for the conditions. And to be honest, the conditions were pretty rough. It reminded me of why we sometimes ski the snowmobile trails – to work on our balance and coordination. But as a great coach once said, “Hey guys, guess what, it’s the same for everyone. So let’s get on with it.”
At these races, your class is only comprised of kids the same age – 12 yr olds vs 12 yr olds. No J3’s, J4’s. So there were 8 separate races (10-13 yr olds, boys and girls). Results for day 1 skate race were:
13 yr old girls (38 racers): Katherine 5th, Tess 13th, Pippen 17th
13 yr old boys (48 racers): Koby 3rd
12 yr old girls (28 racers): Chloe 1st, Mackenzie 2nd, Sophie 5th
12 yr old boys (40 racers): Scott 2nd
11 yr old girls (25 racers): Carly 6th
The dynamic trio (Chloe, Mackenzie and Sophie) after having stormed their first race.
We quickly packed up after the races – headed to a great grocery store where we discovered they will make panninis and pasta to order. Jim Levins (who was brave enough to come along on the trip) and I enjoyed an excellent lunch of pasta covered in tomato sauce and freshly sauteed veggies right from the frying pan. The girls were busy stocking up on snacks and Kinder Eggs.
The cafe at the Grocery store in the tiny village of Saint Gabriel Quebec.
That evening we had a pasta dinner back at the high school and an awards ceremony. Through the coaches meeting (in french) Jim picked up on the fact that you were supposed to bring a bottle of wine to the pasta dinner (coaches only). Ah yes, we were in the French part of Canada. Jim ran out and got us a bottle.
Next year we’ll have to come better prepared for this tradition…. we had to use Tim Horton cups – these guys brought their own wine glasses….
Onto day 2 of racing. Classic races, waves of 5 racers every 15 seconds (seeded by times from the day before), 5 minute gap between age groups. This is a really fun way to run a race, and really great for spectators. Jim was just awesome with the wax! We had an excellent green klister/base wax combo, then a hard wax cover on top of that. All our kids had great kick.
Results from day 2:
13 yr old girls: Katherine 3rd, Tess 14th, Pippen 20th
13 yr old boys: Koby 2nd
12 yr old girls: Chloe 1st, Mackenzie 3rd, Sophie 9th
12 yr old boys: Scott 1st
11 yr old girls: Carly 4th (and I want to mention that the 3 girls in this category in front of Carly were all about 18 inches+ taller than her. They were huge. But for everything they had in height, she has in fight!)
Carly bringing it home…
Koby skied a smart race and brought home the silver.
I wish I had more pictures. We had a super time! It’s really a great experience to race in another country (that speaks another language) and see how you stack up. This was a great tune-up for the BKL Festival this weekend. We’ll definitely put it on our calendar for next year.
Here are some pictures from our final EC race. Thanks again to Herve Pelletier for taking the great shots.
Thanks also to Faster Skier for allowing us to use the picture of Andy that is now on our header. The World Championships start in Oslo this week and we thought we should celebrate the occassion!
We had another good day with two of the top 3 Jr girls and 3 of the top 4 Jr boys along with a J2 win. But it wasn’t just about the top of the pack. Everyone skied hard and many had their best races of the season to date. Special mention to Charlie, Mac and Tyler who each put together two very strong races.
Bridger skied well again. After two seasons of injury and sickness, it is nice having a strong consistent season.
Brooke hammers out of the start.
Cambria.
Charlie had another very good race.
The “other” Austin.
Focus.
Heather hammers for the line. The top 3 Jr girls reversed order from yesterday. This time it went Corey, Heather, Cambria. This is great, they are all pushing each other hard and there are a bunch of others close behind. 
Issy gets after it.
The NE Jr. National team was named after the race. With 11 current students and 4 alums named as well as the first alternate for girls, we will have a strong SMS showing in Minnesota!
Murph skied well, but crashed and hurt his shoulder.
Nice hair Rachel!
Skyler skied well and led our boys team to 3 of the top 4 in the Jr. race.
Tyler won again and secured the overall EC title for J2’s.
Sometimes, when things aren’t going your way, it’s best to focus on the positive notes, on the bright spots. While I have been having a rough start to my European Tour, some of my teammates have been turning in some awesome results. While I would have loved to be racing in the sprint heats yesterday, it was AWESOME watching Kikkan kick butt – LIVE outsprinting all the other World Cup girls including the “Queen of Vancouver,” none other than Norway’s national hero, Marit Bjorgen. It was extra fun watching the race from the side of the trail with my APU teammate, Sadie, who had an awesome first weekend of World Cup racing and Jessie, who had had her first World Cup that very day. Jessie’s direct comment from the day was, “I wish the race would have been longer because it was so much fun out there!”
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Sunday was Kikkan’s third World Cup win of her career and first in Norway which is an added bonus. Her result definitely puts her at the top for the list of favorites going into Thursday’s World Championship sprint. Someone on Facebook asked if anyone can beat Kikkan in a skate sprint right now and the answer was, “Maybe Shani Davis!” After watching her final kick in the long straight finnish stretch I think I’d have to agree. Here are some pictures of her victory:
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“After not racing in so long, the main objective was obtained – feeling that hurt and racing with a bib on again. The reality is no matter how many interval sessions you do, or time trials – real competition can’t be faked and can only come through real racing – with a bib on, and the xc community watching.” (Kershaw, 2.21.11)
Furthermore, everyone in the World Cup field wants the same thing. The thing we have in common is that we all want to win. Unfortunately, there can only be one winner – leaving second through last place for everyone else. While it’s unrealistic for many of us to hope to win, everyone in the field is hoping to better their best result. Everyone is searching for a PR or the “race of their life.” When you think about it, one enters a race in an attempt to do something similar to everyone else – I suppose that is the essence of competition. Sometimes goals are met, and other times, the athlete is left looking for another chance.
Devon also talked about an unsatisfying race on Sunday….. complete with Rolling Stones lyrics. It’s great, check it out:
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Sometimes, when things aren’t going your way, it’s best to focus on the positive notes, on the bright spots. While I have been having a rough start to my European Tour, some of my teammates have been turning in some awesome results. While I would have loved to be racing in the sprint heats yesterday, it was AWESOME watching Kikkan kick butt – LIVE outsprinting all the other World Cup girls including the “Queen of Vancouver,” none other than Norway’s national hero, Marit Bjorgen. It was extra fun watching the race from the side of the trail with my APU teammate, Sadie, who had an awesome first weekend of World Cup racing and Jessie, who had had her first World Cup that very day. Jessie’s direct comment from the day was, “I wish the race would have been longer because it was so much fun out there!”
Sunday was Kikkan’s third World Cup win of her career and first in Norway which is an added bonus. Her result definitely puts her at the top for the list of favorites going into Thursday’s World Championship sprint. Someone on Facebook asked if anyone can beat Kikkan in a skate sprint right now and the answer was, “Maybe Shani Davis!” After watching her final kick in the long straight finnish stretch I think I’d have to agree. Here are some pictures of her victory:
“After not racing in so long, the main objective was obtained – feeling that hurt and racing with a bib on again. The reality is no matter how many interval sessions you do, or time trials – real competition can’t be faked and can only come through real racing – with a bib on, and the xc community watching.” (Kershaw, 2.21.11)
Furthermore, everyone in the World Cup field wants the same thing. The thing we have in common is that we all want to win. Unfortunately, there can only be one winner – leaving second through last place for everyone else. While it’s unrealistic for many of us to hope to win, everyone in the field is hoping to better their best result. Everyone is searching for a PR or the “race of their life.” When you think about it, one enters a race in an attempt to do something similar to everyone else – I suppose that is the essence of competition. Sometimes goals are met, and other times, the athlete is left looking for another chance.
Devon also talked about an unsatisfying race on Sunday….. complete with Rolling Stones lyrics. It’s great, check it out:
