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Monday, October 20, 2008  

2008 Nordic Season news round-up

We had the juniors prize giving for end of season today, and a BYO /BBQ lunch at the Snow Park Wool shed all combined with a NZNSDA committee meeting, followed by Wanaka Nordic Ski Club meeting, then a meeting of Masters biathletes and any other interested persons to
progress discussions to date for summer plans , range development etc.

All-in-all, a busy day and a positive and fitting end to the 2008 season, in which so much was accomplished.

The Hoppet

Here is some news republished from Jan Wood of the Wanaka Nordic Ski Club. Firstly a photo of Emily and Kathy Deacon and Briar Alexander at the Australian Hoppet...


This is what Emily Deacon had to say:

"The Australian Loppet was a great week. Briar, Mum and I arrived on Thursday in time for the night sprints and show, and spent Friday getting to know the course. I was doing the Joey Hoppet - 7 km sprint race.

We had a hot day both Friday and Saturday, great for wearing our lycra. The race went pretty well, though unfortunately we had registered late so I got put at the back for the start, and I had to fight my way through the crowds! It was still a good race and interesting skiing by trees and the huge dam.

I ended up getting 9th in my age group (under 14‚s). We did find we were almost famous in Aussie though, with heaps of people coming to talk to us and we got our photo‚s taken. It was a great experience but will be nice to get back to our quiet ski field."

The Adams family, who are still members of our Ski Club, also raced in the Hoppet, after dashing back from the Merino Muster. Their results and Briars, are as follows ˆ

Briar was 10th in W12, Tori Adams was 6th in W10 with
same time as Emily for finish.   Hayley W8, Mary Adams 3rd in
W40. Oli 7th in M8. All did Joey Hoppet of 7 kms.
Ric did 42 kms = 26 for M40.  

Mini Merinos                                                           
                                                            
Meanwhile much praise has to go to Ray and the Mini Merino group back at the Snow Farm, for their achievements, typified by the size of the group which has come about simply because it's so much fun...


Two groups, each with 10-12 children, have gone thru this season, so that's a good number of youngsters who can be filtered up into the NZNSDA when they are ready. One of the Dads, Ray O‚Brien, with a little help from Ella Maluschnig and parents, has done a great job with the wee ones and is thinking next winter of starting a Middi Merinos‚ group as well.

Nordic Race Series

Peter Soundy and John Alexander [on the right below] have done a great job in putting on these races each weekend over the winter to give Club skiers and others opportunity to compete and improve their rankings...


The series has been very successful and all thanks go to Peter and John for putting in the work of setting the courses, collating the results, and generally running these events. The series has enabled younger skiers and older skiers to all race together - fathers and mothers against sons and daughters!

NZNSDA Coaching

Our new coach Alexi did a stellar job. Here we see him discussing strategies with Team Manager Liz...


Liz has had about 20 in this group under the expert tuition of Alexei and latterly Andrea Fancy. After their big trip away to Canada last January, they are having a summer at home to consolidate and build, with summer training, on the amazing tuition passed on by Alexi.

Biathlon

Strong growth here - Liz and some others went to Aust. and trained with the Aust. army, a range has been built, and rifles are being accumulated. Much has been achieved in a relatively short amount of time

Have a good summer!

posted by Nordic NZ  # 2:59 PM

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