Training & Stuff

Tuesday - intervals - warm-up at 7:00 and we start the intervals at 7:20 on the first fairway.

A few things to note on interval training:
It is very important to get a good warm-up before the intervals start.  This is your mother speaking.

I'm going to start ramping up the level of the intensity training next week.  This will be your last "easy" week.


Thursday - double-poling technique - start at 7:00 at the training grid


Racing
The Birch Open is this Sunday.  Registration closes on Thursday at midnight.
 http://ccsam.ca/birch-open-mb-cup-2-race-notice-posted/


Race Suits
I will have the race suits to hand out after the Tuesday training.

Roller Skiing

Here's a video of Downtown Nordic's summer roller-skiing program.  You can even see that we do some of the same downhill drills as we do in the winter.

Racing in Minneapolis on Sunday

Notice the snow-making in the background. (photo courtesy of skinnyski.com)

Training this week -- THURSDAY NOW AT 7PM!

Thursday training is now at 7PM (it used to be 7:30PM).

This Thursday (10th) we'll be doing more downhill cornering drills and some "fun" stuff to challenge your downhill abilities.

Next Thursday (17th), weather permitting, we'll be doing some double-pole technique work ... recapping what we went through a few weeks ago and adding "the fourth point"!

Skier of the Week

It was a tough call this week with three very deserving candidates.  After several gruelling hours of deliberations, the Downtown Nordic Skier-of-the-Week is Levi Nadlersmith! 



After taking the bronze medal in the classic race on Thursday in Thunder Bay, he topped that by taking the gold medal today in the skating race.  Outstanding accomplishments Levi!   Levi is a very important part of the Downtown Nordic junior team ... partly because he is the only member of our junior team.

Andy Dwilow was first runner-up.  Andy Dwilow played a critical role in figuring out how to regain access to the damaged Downtown Nordic locker that had all of our new toques in it.  If you have ever wondered how many Downtown Nordic club members it takes to open a locker ... it is exactly 5!

The second runner-up was Paul Lapointe for winning the inaugural Windsor Park Grand Prix.  Paul is making a comeback to ski racing this year and took his first win in 10 years!  Here is Paul (on the right) next to Brad Pitt:



Important note: the roles of runner-up are critical as they may have to step in if the winner is not able to fulfill their role as Downtown Nordic Skier-of-the-Week.

WindChill Windsor Park Grand Prix

Toques off to the WindChill club for putting on a very challenging course at the Windsor Park Grand Prix on Saturday.  Downtown Nordic had some spetacular results ... particularly by those who are regular attendees of our Tuesday night intensity sessions (hint hint).

results here: http://ccsam.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/results_2013_WindsorParkGrandPrix.pdf

Tim Tribute

Our Head Coach and President Tim Wintoniw is now in Saskatchewan, where he'll be for a few months.  As a tribute to Tim, here are a random listing of photos with descriptions that may or may not be true

2010 Vancouver Olympics:

 

 

Tim coming up with the idea of starting a club called Downtown Nordic:

  

2004 Athens Olympics: 

 


Tim in his early rapper days (Ice-Ski)

 

   

Tim's publicity photo from his days starring on Young and the Restless:


Tim on the dive to locate the Titanic:

 

 

... andTim hearing that we were going for beer and wings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team Photo

Incredible training session last night!  Everyone was pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone on the downhill cornering drills.

Here is just half of the Downtown Nordic club:

Levi Takes Bronze!

Levi Nadlersmith, part of Downtown Nordic's junior team, took home a bronze medal in the Haywood Noram Cup on Thursday in the 7.7km classic race!

Levi at Lappe Nordic in Thunder Bay wearing the Downtown Nordic race suit (pictured beside co-coach Cory Kolbuck):




Levi receiving his bronze medal:



Apparently there was lots of interest in this "Downtown Nordic" club!

Well done Levi!  This MAY be enough to make him DN Skier-of-the-Week :)

Levi also races Friday in a classic sprint and Sunday in a skate race.

The Conversation

A cartoon rendition of the conversation Tim and I had after the practice two weeks ago:





Comments welcome!

The Fourth Point continued ...

Here is a great photo of a recent world cup classic race in Germany (Photo courtesy of FasterSkier.com).

The two Russian skiers are leading the race and demonstrating the new double-pole technique.  In a way, this is as good as classic double-poling gets!



Skier 5 is midway through the double-pole technique. Now look at Skier 8. Skier 8 is just finsihing THE FOURTH POINT and is soon about to start the first point.

What do you think the fourth point is?   Let's see your answers in the comments section ...