January 11, 2026
Good morning!
We have now gotten into our race season with the HS skiers having competed on Wednesday at Oak Hill with a large group of strong teams and we ended up doing quite well. On the boys' side, Ned led the way with his 21st place showing followed closely by Kelby eleven seconds later in 25th out of 101 racers. Then, there was quite a group as Zach, Joey, and Adam finished 35, 36, and 37 only five seconds apart. Quinn finished with a respectable 9:05 time in 69th place and Grayson, even after suffering a pretty serious crash finished the race. Well done boys! That was good enough for 5th place as a team (second among Division 2 teams).
On the girls side, Kat had a very good race finishing in 8th place and making the sprint final. She was followed by Ainsley in 25th place thirty-two seconds out of the top 10. Haley had a wonderful race working hard up that final climb into the stadium and finishing with a time of 10:29 in sixty-second place out of 107 racers.
We also had many parents on hand to help out and cheer on the kids. It was a really good day. Thank you.
This week will begin a very busy stretch for the team with racing for everyone on Tuesday at the Gunstock paintball biathlon and several skiers heading up to Waterville, ME for the second Eastern Cup weekend. For Wednesday, we need a couple of parent volunteers to assist with the Paintball biathlon, please let me know if you can help out.
Looking ahead, we are hosting a race on January 21 and will need a good number of parent volunteers to help out. I'll send out an email regarding this later this week. Also, Saturday, January 24th is the NH Coaches Association Series race #1 at White Mountains Regional HS in Whitefield, NH. I sent out a volunteer sign-up email last week and hope that we can get a few volunteers for that race. More on this will be coming out next week. It's a full day of racing and skiers should expect to be there the whole day.
This week:
Monday, Jan. 12- Practice @ Proctor 4:00-5:30 Freestyle technique and race prep for MS
Tuesday, Jan. 13- Paintball biathlon @ Gunstock, HSB 2:30, HSG 3:10, MS to follow.
Wednesday, Jan. 13 Practice @ Proctor 4:00-5:30 Freestyle recovery ski
Thursday, Jan. 14- Practice @ Proctor 4:00-5:30 Freestyle technique- V4, V1 hop step, V1 switching sides
Friday, Jan. 15- practice on your own for those not at Quarry Road, Intervals.
We will be practicing Monday, January 18 regular time.
That's all for now folks.