Hey group! Enjoy your outings this week – 45 min easy run/pole hike or 70 min roller ski on Tuesday, 55 min easy run/pole hike or 80 min roller ski on Thursday. Head out when you’ve got a group to go with. Leave no man(skier) behind. Core body will start in earnest next week, are you ready? We’ve got some new moves for you!
Thank you to all the parents that helped to put things together for last night! A special thank you to the captain’s parents that organized everything including decorations, pictures and food! It wouldn’t have happened without your help, hard work and time, thank you!
DVD’s for those that wanted one but didn’t get one are ready and can be picked up from Ms. Anderson in room 234. If you would still like one – she can burn one quickly in the next couple days but after that, the offer is gone. $1.
Yes, tonight is the night! Vandenberge – Door N. Head to the cafeteria and we’ll have dinner and then present the season awards and recognize all of our wonderful athletes!
5:30pm we’ll set up dinner, start eating by 6:00pm. We’ll see you there!!
Directions to Vandenberge – it is just past the high school as you are going down school street. Door N is the door on the side of the school that shares the lots between the high school and Vandenberge.
Yes, the banquet is next Monday, March 8th. The location has changed though – VandenBerge Cafeteria. Set-up at 5:30, dinner at 6:00pm. If you have questions, contact a coach or a captain!
Yes folks – tomorrow is the day you have all been waiting for, the 3rd Annual Olympic Nordic Decathlon. What is it you ask? You will need to be there to believe it. You will be filled with shock and awe at the epicness of the event. (Ahh, we need a ruling here – “epicness” – is that even a word? – In fact, epicness is only a word when used to describe the 3rd Annual Olympic Nordic Decathlon and how much awesomeness it entails…) Right – getting back to it…
Who: All of you wonderful/crazy/exciting/beautiful ski people
What: An afternoon of awesome and epic experiences (dress for outside weather)
When: 3:00 (or when ever you make it over middle school skiers)
Where: Start by the ski room, we’ll be heading out from there.
Why: Because you are cool and so are we. (And you are training for the Olympics – yep, that’s right. We went there.)
How: In good time my dear friends, all will be shared in good time…
If you still have uniforms to turn in (we know who you are) or ski equipment that you want to return sooner rather than later (you know who you are) bring it with tomorrow and we’ll take care of it. If you are still skiing on your skis, keep skiing!
Banquet: Monday, March 8th: Set-up/mingle around 5:30, dinner at 6:00pm. Details will be coming. It is a pot luck so you will be assigned something to bring and share.
Nordic racing on TV? In the United States? You have to love the Olympics! Continuous Pursuit… Sprints… Classic… Freestyle… Relays… Team Sprints… Broken Ribs… Crashes… Awesome Course… Driving Rain… Classic at 52 Degrees for a chance at an Olympic Gold Medal… and it continues…
Who thinks we should take a “little” trip next winter to check out a new course? Can you imagine skiing there? Racing there?
Don’t forget that we have our own “Olympic” event on Wednesday – The Third Annual Olympic Nordic Decathlon. Dress for outside, we’ll get started around 3:00 and be done around 4:00. Be ready for anything…
Okay – Photos have been uploaded and are linked from the photos tab above. Feel free to copy and print any of them. We’ll have a few more coming in from parents and skiers but for now, this is what there is time for. Now you can spend your time looking through them, there are only a few… 
A huge thank you to Mama Bates for all the photos she added through the season!! Please thank her!
As a reminder, we are looking for other pictures and video that might make it’s way to the end of year video. If you have any to share, put it on a jump drive or disk and get it to Coach K. Also, the music she listens to is pretty lame so if you’d like some of your own selections – put a disk together as a team and get that to her as well. See you Wednesday!
Okay – can you believe it? The season is over – but – there is still snow on the ground so go ski!!
Team meeting will be next Wednesday (the 17th) to turn in uniforms and put a storage coat of wax on any skis you will be returning. If you want to continue to ski for a few weeks, (please do so!) you may return skis at the banquet.
The 3rd Annual Olympic Nordic Decathlon will be held the following Wednesday (the 24th) in the midst of the 2010 Olympics. Rumors are that this event will be added to the 2014 Winter Olympics schedule so show up on the 24th to start practicing!
Banquet – more info to come on Wednesday but plan on the banquet being the second week in March right now.
The captains have asked to have the following message posted regarding the end of year festivities: “At the banquet, we as a team like to present the coaches and seniors with gifts. In order to make that happen, we collect money from each skier to purchase the gifts. We are asking for $10 per skier. Please make sure your name is attached to the money and turn it into Mitch at practice next week.”
Congratulations to the 4 state skiers, to the 3 relay teams and to the entire team on a great season! Thank you for being you! Pictures will be uploaded this weekend so check back on Monday for new ones!
Beautiful day, great skiing, tough courses, excellent racing! Morgan -71st, Emma -38th, Jane -99th, Mitch -86th (DQ).
Great Day! We are on our way home.
The season has flown by!! Monday is the JV Conference Championships. Anyone that was not on the section team can race. We will be following the schedule of the past home meets for dismissal times except for Rogers.
- ERHS- 2:05
- Salk – 2:00 – bus will pick up at 2:05
- Vandenberg – 2:00, walk to high school
- Rogers – 2:20, bus pick-up at 2:35 (high school can get out 5 mins early to release middle school from class)
Start times are tentative but this is what is listed so far:
- 4:00 Skate Boys
- 4:05 Skate Girls
- 4:15 Classic Boys
- 4:20 Classic Girls
It should be some great racing and we are looking forward to it! Immediately following the race, the Lyrenmann’s are hosting our final spaghetti dinner of the season – head on over and get refueled following the race and also send our State and Relay skiers off in style as they leave after school on Tuesday.
