Friday, January 22, 2021

Movin' on Down The Road

We finished up in Utah with a mass-start classic race.

Trond and Toomas, out testing kick waxes before sunrise at Soldier Hollow.

It was a klister day. Trond should have put some of that stuff on his shoes.  He slipped on the ice and landed flat on his back about three different times.

Astrid found her way onto the podium in the classic race.

Sigurd and JC in the skate race.
The boys wanted a group photo before WorldCupSchoon goes back to Europe.

And just like that, JC's off to Europe and the rest of us are off to Colorado.


On the road across the high desert. You might be surprised at all the different kinds of things you can buy in a Kum & Go.

Beaver Creek, Colorado. Gondola-riding with Tuva G, Astrid and Pascale.

Karly, Helen and Tuva B

The boys are living in comfort and eating well in their bubble.

Espen, Astrid, Magnus and Tuva B

The Tuvas and Karly

Meanwhile, the coaches were getting some interval training done.

Espen

Magnus is starting to figure out high-altitude ski racing.

Siggi had kind of a rough outing, but finished aggressively to score as many team points as possible.

He crashed into the bushes on one of the downhills and had to go back afterward to find his wristwatch in the snow.

The face-glitter-shopping options are limited here in Vail. The Elmer's glitter glue was the best we could come up with.

Thirty minutes to race time and the vibe is relaxed and ready.

The staff.

Tuva G on course.

Astrid finished second today.

Tuva B had a breakthrough race and finished third today.

Helen

Karly

Tomorrow's our last race of this road trip. Then we drive down out of the mountains to the Denver airport and fly back to Alaska. I think tomorrow will be a good one.  I'm pretty fired up to see what we can do.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

It's Official

 Our first day of RMISA racing is in the books. We're off to a solid start.

Tuva G

Astrid

Tuva B

Helen

Pascale

Karly

Maggi

Jay-Z

Siggi

Espen
One item in this picture does not belong. Can you identify the item?

Talking things over.


Saturday, January 16, 2021

Here We Go...

It's looking like we're not going to get too many chances to see WorldCupSchoon race this year, since he's already got a plane ticket back to Europe next week. But today, we did. Today it was all about the sprint racing at Soldier Hollow. All but one of us skipped it.

Toomas & Trond. Prepping skis. And talking about prepping skis.

WorldCupSchoon doing his thing.

Toomas doing his thing.

Like a Labrador puppy, he's not going to stop until you tie him to a tree.



For the most part, we wax our own skis on this team.

Even on the road together, we Zoom our team meetings. I hope this will end with the pandemic.

The girls are ready to race.

Siggi is ready to race.

The 2021 RMISA and NCAA ski racing seasons begin bright and early tomorrow at 9am.


Friday, January 15, 2021

Seawolves on the Airwaves

Former Seawolf Sadie Maubet Bjornsen (2009) and current Seawolf JC Schoonmaker were on Alaska Public Radio yesterday, talking about ski racing for an hour.  If you want to listen to the show, you can do so by clicking on the photo of this cat (below) who is also a DJ.




Thursday, January 14, 2021

To Utah for Our First RMISA Races

 Everywhere we've gone, it's been good skiing.

It's been good ski touring in the hills above Anchorage.

It's been good ski touring in Girdwood.

It's been good training at the Hillside trails.

We flew to Salt Lake City a couple days ago for our first college races of the new year.

Karly, Pascale & one of the Tuvas.

During the warmup for intervals this morning at Soldier Hollow.

Workout instructions from Trond

Tuva G & Trond

Pascale, Karly, Tuva B & Helen

The final interval of the day.

All is good so far.  And according to our second test this week, we're still Covid-free.

Stay tuned.