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Race # 15 - Team Relay Race Results, Banquet and more...

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Thanks for picking up the flags.

Amazing conditions for our Team relay (Team of 3 with 3 laps each incl. 2 laps classic minimum).

Results:

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Well proven time acquisition technique ! Always works...

Pics of the race and banquet:

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Who won the ski prep at La Shop, Squamish ? LMK Lbagneres@shaw.ca

Thanks to:

Cypress mountain (Bill, Karen) for the amazing grooming before the race, assistnace + draw prices:
Cypress Hollyburn Lodge for the huge portion of Lasagna and apple crisp 
Bob Putnam Deep Cover Outdoor
Different Bikes,
Sigges and Salomon
MEC North Van
Vesa for the Webscorer; will use on occasional basis for the more formal races
Volunteers
All of us for coming !

I'll update the Website shortly with all season's results.

Any volunteers for next year ? Please drop me an email. We need 15 volunteers for 15 races: Taking the times during the races and sending results for posting.

Bruno 

Posted March 21, 2012
 

Banquet registration tonight !

Hello, 

Please let me know if you will attend possibly before tonight; need to let Hollyburn know numebrs by tomorrow. It's $13 and I think there will be Vegi option. Pay the lodge directly.

Race will be 1 lap classic, 2 laps skate (teams of 3 - 1 lap each)

See you Tuesday,

Bruno 

 

Posted March 18, 2012
 

Race #14 Results - Team Relay - One Lap Classic one Lap Skate 8.4 km (Standard Reverse)

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Race yesterday: Great classic conditions and excelent grooming (some teams had to "fight" to do the Classic lap !!!).

Results below "presentes sur un plateau" par David  who volunteered to time that race; Thanks David.

Banquet next Tuesday after some fun relay sprint along Lower Wellsgrey...Start above the lodge 3 short laps each Teams of 2 , free technique. Lot's of draw prices; the less we are the more price each of us will get !!! Sponsors to date are MEC, Deep Cove, Sigges, Different Bikes and more...

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Few more pics from yesterday's race:

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Posted March 14, 2012
 

Race # 13 Results - Classic Two Laps 8.4 km

Great classic conditions tonight; some where in Klister, Klister + hard wax, others in zero skis, few on skate.

Results below:

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Thanks to Sally (again) for timing with Bill Letham.

Next races: There will be two more races:

Next week March 13th: Relay Skate - Team of Two. 1 lap skate, 1 lap classic (your team decides who skates and who classics)

Following week March 20th + wrap up party: Skate relay of some sort tbd

Do not forget the race organized by UBC on Saturday March 10th !!!

Bruno

Posted March 6, 2012
 

Race #12 Results Elimination Sprints

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Reported from Reid and Amy who volunteered for this race:

Fun race with 29 racers and lots of Jackrabbits. The snow was fast, -4C and snowing lightly. The race was single knockout elimination sprints. Everybody did a timetrail to establish pairing and then we matched fasted with middle of the pack and worked through in paired sequences with the slower member of each pair getting a distance handicap to keep everyone close to the same finishing time. Lots of close finishes! In the end it came down to the teenage jackrabbit speedsters with Lucas Putnam having the fasted time only to be beaten out early by his handicapped pair. The four finalists were Fred Weaver, Adam Woods, Zane Heyes and Sergei Meshkov – with Zane Heyes taking the title.

Click here to download:
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Next race is a Classic race : Dave McKee will volunteers; surprise course, starts at 7:15

Banquet is Tuesday March 20th after our race (will confirm location)

Pics from Race # 11 (Relay) finally posted:

 

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Posted March 3, 2012
 

Race # 12 - Results (Teams of two, two laps each, approx. 7 km for each racer)

Results from last race

Place - Team - Time

1 - Ottowa - 34:57
2 - Highballers - 35:32
3 - The Frogs - 36:45
4 - Hollyburn Old Guys - 36:49
5 - International - 36:55
6 - Payak - 37:47
7 - Quinn - 39:28
8 - Smokin Aces - 41:50
9 - The Dogs - 44:05
10 - Raging Bulls - 44:47
11 - The Sheep - 47:19

Safety: I talked to Bill Cooper the morning after the race ref. to our "close call" at the start. Since a few of us stopped and appologized, I think it was all good...(no official complaints made). Lesson learned: We will not cross tracks in the future.

Next race: Individual elimination sprints organized by Reid and Amy(?). Skate, 7:15 start.

Banquet: If you want to help for the draw prices, that would be great. I am usually doing MEC. Any ideas ? It could be anything. Need also to set the date. Cypress is closing night skiing March 21st ich, so the Tuesday that week is likely (providing that we can find a spot at the Lodge). I will keep you posted. 

Photos of Race # 12 to come...

Bruno

 

PS: Payak was great today, thanks Jamie and Siggies for organizing.

Posted February 25, 2012
 

Race #11 - February 28th - Skate Race Sprints

 Bruno

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Guess which is this mountain !

 

Sorry, my mistake on the last post...no classic race until March 6th.

February 28th will be paired elimination sprints with very short sprints up probably on upper Wells Gray. Amy and Reid will volunteer for that one. Thanks to them !

(Feb 21st is still a skate race organized by UBC - Eric Carter - see last Post).

Bruno

Posted February 19, 2012
 

Race # 10 - Feb 21st - Team Relay - Skate

Next Tuesday night's race will be a 4 lap relay (using the shorter laps - map will be at registration). We will start/finish at the ski school flats. You can register in teams of 2,3,or 4 skiers and do whatever combination of laps you wish. Only the person skiing the anchor leg will get a bib. If you don't have a team, let us know at the registration table and we will find you one.

It will be fun !

Thanks to UBC for organizing another race 

Race on Feb 28th will be a Free Style Race relay (sorry Classic is March 6th). Ok for volunteers.

Bruno

Posted February 16, 2012
 

Race # 9 - Valentine's Day "Enduro" Skate

Course was:

  • 2 Laps was 8.6 km
  • 4 laps was 17.2 km

Great race and turn out and great grooming from Cypress as always...

Ranking Method: With no volunteers to time that race, I had to find some ways to at least rank the racers so I used the old "pin and paper" method; can'y screw up on the one (no electronics, no frozen pen issues).

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Results: Check the Raw results below to find your position for the 2 laps or 4 laps race (no time recorded):

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Bill, you pushed too hard on that last lap !
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Safety: Cypress mentioned to us that our races where safe ! Nice to hear.

Next race (Race # 10) will be a relay (Skate) organized by UBC.

Need to start thinking about draw prices

Volunteers: To save these races and keep them managed by our community, we need people to commit for next year, and if somebody wants to take over the all thing, please go ahead !!!

Valentine's day:

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Bruno

PS: Results from last race to be posted soon.

 

Posted February 14, 2012
 

Race # 8 Standard Variations - Skate 7 km

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That was our surprise route...

 

Hello, Skier.

Thanks for behaving well last Tuesday; No incident in this fast and technical course, bravo and brava !

Results may never come as timers had issued with frozen pen...But in return, you are getting nice photographs of the race; hey, you canot have it all !

See photo gallery by clicking on the pic below

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See one video of the Sitzmark Corner by clicking below

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Upcoming

Race # 9: Feb 14th (Valentine's day): Race is 2 laps (short course) or 4 laps skate (long course), free technique. Timing will stop after 1:20 minutes so pick up the right course for you when you register...

 

I am short of volunteers : Need at least one timer and an helper to call the bibs. Guys; it is time for different people to step in ! It is easy; just need to take the time by hand if you do not know how to use the Ipad & WebScorrer. 

Race Saturday Feb 25th - P'ayak http://www.payak.ca/ Free technique 30 km, 50 km and other distances - Do not miss the early bird registartion Feb 15th midnight.

Race March 10th - Race at Cypress (See poster appended, thanks to UBC and other sponsors).
Click here to download:
DB_NordicFondo.pdf (161 KB)
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Bruno

 

 

 

 

Posted February 11, 2012