Bowling

The team celebrated our last night before the semester starts with some 80s themed bowling.  We showed some spectacular skill and are seriously considering changing sports.

COLBY CARNIVAL

Both the Men and Women had another solid day of racing on Sunday in the Mass Start 15/20K Skate Races. The pace was fast and furious right from the start under crystal clear blue skies and very cold temps. The men finished 4th overall and the women 8th (only 15 pts out of 4th!). Here are the team results:

Women:
Olivia - 17
Christina - 19
Hannah - 25
Elena - 46
Laura - 62
Jenna - 64

Men:
Isaac - 14
Phil - 21
Kalle - 28
Vanya - 36
Ian - 39
Josh - 53
Casey - 66
Ben - 70

And a results link:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results13/cbc13.htm

And here are some GREAT PICTURES from the weekend courtesy of Peter Hoenig:

Ian very focused negotiating the most technical corner on the course

Phil having a great day in the mass start race!

This is a SWEET picture of Vanya classic skiing out of the start

Jenna on the hard left corner staying away from the safety fence!:)

Ben striding away

Laura on the corner

The AWESOME Williams Parents and the amazing food spread. 

Sarah Double Poling in the 5k Classic

Olivia, Christina and Hannah after lap 1 in the 15K w/coaches.

COACH FISHER and the lap counting clipboard

Josh heading out of the start and Casey on lap 2

Elena TUCKING the hard left corner. AWESOME!

Kalle aggressive on the corner

Isaac heading out of the stadium getting a split. 

And a video of the men's field at 2.5k. A bit shaky since I was counting skiers and ready to hand out poles. 

Men's 20K COLBY CARNIVAL 2013 from Williams Nordic Ski Team on Vimeo.

CAR TROUBLES!!!

Jenna had to leave her car a bit short of the scheduled exchange point. We hear it's running now!!

It was a very fun weekend with lots of accomplishments for the team to be proud of. We're gearing up for some hard and short intervals on Wednesday and we're off to Stowe, VT for the UVM carnival on Friday (races are Saturday and Sunday). Will and Kristen will be back from Norway, so we'll have the entire team in tow ready to do some ROCKING OF THE COW!

Results are up!

Women:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results13/EISA/cbc2013-3.htm

Men:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results13/EISA/cbc2013-4.htm

Women and Men both finished 5th today. Great job team!

Colby 5/10K Classic Results.....

.....aren't quite up yet on the EISA site, but our top 3 scorers for men and women were all fighting for the top 20 today with really tight times across the board. Nothing is official yet, but it looks like Olivia 15th, Christina, 17th and Hannah 24th for the women and Vanya 19th, Ian 20th and Isaac 22nd for the men.  It was a chilly day, but sunny with great tracks and skiing conditions (if we ignore a few rocks here and there). The team skied very well and showed really solid depth today. I'll post an update later this evening as the official results become available.

BRRRRRR......IT'S COLD!

It's been a frigid week here in Williamstown with temps rarely exiting the single digits, but that didn't stop the team from getting in a few good workouts including a great L4 4 x 3 min Classic Interval session on Wednesday up the back side of Chickadee. We head out first thing in the morning for Carnival # 2 of the season in Waterville, ME at the new Colby venue, "Quarry Road". We're looking forward to checking out the course and are planning to do a prevue late tomorrow afternoon when we arrive. It's going to be a bit of a drive, but the Abramson's are putting together a lunch for us about 4.5 hours into the trip to break it up a bit. Thank you Abramson family!!! Saturday's race is a 5/10K classic individual start and Sunday will be the 15/20K freestyle mass start races. Stay tuned for results!

Isaac and Christina lead EPHS at SLU CARNIVAL

This past weekend kicked off the start of the 2013 EISA CARNIVAL CIRCUIT!  Isaac led the men's team both days as did Christina for the women. Both scored decent NCAA qualifying points and are off to a strong start for the season. It was a great weekend of racing with a tough 15K/20K individual start race on Friday in frigid temps and a 3.2K prologue event on Saturday. Everyone finished both races, which was an accomplishment in itself, especially on Friday with temps barely above 0 degrees. Lake Placid was bustling with all sorts of winter events going on and was inspiring as always with the presence of the Olympic Venues from 1980. The team even had a chance on Friday night to go watch some the aerials competition at the jumping complex. The weekend's races left everyone hungry for more next weekend in Waterville, ME at the Colby Carnival!

Here is a link to the EISA results page:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results13/slu13.htm

Peter Hoenig (Isaac's dad) took some great pictures throughout the weekend. Here are a few that he sent my way:

Hannah in the Prologue

Phil attacking in the Prologue 

Josh overtaking bib 81 in the Prologue. Josh's last day being 18!

Isaac in the Prologue. 16th place. 3.9 seconds out of the top 10!

Elena powers under the bridge in the Prologue

Ian heading into the last 1K of the Prologue

Laura in her Carnival debut!

Olivia working the V2 in the 15K 

Kalle heading to the finish in the 20K

Offering feeds during the distance race

Ben charging in the Prologue

Pre-race chat with the women's team

Mountain Top Eastern Cup - Day 2

Day 2 of the weekend was the 5/10K Classic individual start. It was a tough 2 lap course with dirty and slow snow for the women and a slightly longer loop x 3 for the men. The women's field had 164 finishers. Below are the team results. Great job ladies!!

Olivia - 10th

Christina - 19th

Hannah - 30th

Jenna - 38th

Elena - 47th

Eliza - 53rd

Laura - 54th

Sarah - 65th

While the women were racing we continued testing skis for the men's race and then had the chance to get out on the course and do some cheering!! The conditions continued to slow down during the men's race and the crew fought hard on the tough 3 lap course with 115 finishers. Below are the results. Great job guys!

Ian - 17th

Isaac - 21st

Kalle - 38th

Casey - 59th

Ben - 73rd

Josh - Had a great first lap and then had to call it a day with some sharp back pain. He's working with the trainers and should be back at it next weekend.

Casey dodging dirty tracks in the upper field

Isaac working the lane change

Josh at the top of the climbs through the field

Kalle at the top of the field

Ian looking strong

Ian had a great race and would have finished even higher without a last second crash heading into the finish. Nice job Ian!!!

Ben looking very visible!

After a tough day of racing and waxing with klister there is nothing like a STOCKED lunch table put together by the amazing group of Williams parents that we have. It was incredible - THANK YOU PARENTS, you made everyone's day!

The lunch table

Women's team enjoying the lunch

The wax tent

THANK YOU PARENTS!

The wax clean up

The women's team minus Sarah

Kalle and his dad Bill

 With 16 people trying to run heat guns and irons on one circuit it's pretty finicky keeping the power going. Thank you Bill Jahn for the Generator hook up!!

THE MEYERSONS - A.K.A. The "Smileys"

The Purple Cow Table Cloth is a GREAT TOUCH

FEEDING FRENZY:)

Mountain Top Eastern Cup - Day 1

It was an early 6:30AM departure from Williamstown this morning for our sprint crew of Josh and Jenna. Ian, Christina and Laura volunteered to ride in the early vans and cheer on Josh and Jenna in the qualifying.

Josh getting ready to go with teammate support

Ian pointing out the stylish Purple Williams tent

Tractor towing vans (not ours) out of the lower lot

Josh on the final climb in the qualifying round.

Race course maps for the weekend

The cheering squad

Jenna in the Women's Quarterfinal
Jenna qualified in 17th and finished 26th overall on the day. Great Job!

 Then the sun came out!!

Josh racing to a 4th place finish in the J1/OJ A final.

Josh missed qualifying for the men's heats by 1.4 seconds, but had a great day in the J1/OJ heats!

Just before dinner Christina received news that she had been accepted to University of Michigan's Physics Graduate program. CONGRATULATIONS CHRISTINA!

We had an excellent dinner at Little Harry's in Rutland

More Little Harry's

We're looking forward to a great classic race in the morning at Mountain top. Women's 5k starts at 10AM and Men's 10k at 12PM!