Monday, December 30, 2013

Holiday Camp Time Trial Results

Here are the results from our time trial on Saturday, 12/28

1.  Eli McCurdy 19:56
2. Lizzy Martin 20:16
3. Bennett Hight 21:04
4. Lily Johnston 22:49
5. Yacob Olins 23:03
6. Kyle Dorsey 23:50
7. Jasmine Olins 25:07
8. Lily LaMarre 25:58
9. Emma Egan 26:40
10. Thomas Kolle 26:56
11. Perrin Davidson 27:41
12. John Smail 32:41
13. Logan Parker 38:31


Monday, December 23, 2013

Practice Schedule For Vacation (2 weeks)

Monday, 12/23 - off
Tuesday, 12/24 - On Your Own: 1.5 hour easy ski and strength (1 strength circuit and core)
Wednesday, 12/25 - On Your Own: 1 hour easy exercise (ski or jog)
Thursday, 12/26 - Camp/On Your Own: intervals 10 X 1 minute maximum speed uphill CLASSIC (2 hours total) and strength (1 strength circuit and core)
Friday, 12/27 - Camp/On Your Own: 2 hour CLASSIC ski (a.m.) and 1 hour SKATE ski (p.m.)
Saturday, 12/28 - Camp/On Your Own: Time trial 5km SKATE (2 hours total)
Sunday, 12/29 - On Your Own: 2 hour easy ski
Monday, 12/30 - On Your Own: 1 hour easy ski
Tuesday, 12/31 - On Your Own: 1 hour easy CLASSIC ski
Wednesday, 1/1 - Team Practice* @ 10 a.m.: 1.5 hour CLASSIC ski - intervals 4 X 4 minutes (race pace)
Thursday, 1/2 - off
Friday, 1/3 - Team Practice* @ 2:30 p.m.: 1.5 hour SKATE ski
Saturday, 1/4 - FIRST RACE: Telstar Relays, depart from FHS at 8 a.m. (approximate return time 5 or 6 p.m.)

*1/1 and 1/3 Team practices are mandatory for all skiers who not away. Skiers must be at practice on Friday (1/3) to race the next day (Saturday, 1/4). 

Feel free to get in touch with the coaches about any questions.

Have a great vacation!

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Reminders!

All skiers need to remember to bring a change of clothes (especially a warm, dry top), a snack, and water for after practice. The bus (or car) ride back from Pineland can be long and cold. Changing out of wet clothes and refueling is the best way to make sure that you do not get sick!!!

All skiers attending the holiday camp should get their checks in ASAP! Checks can be given to any of the coaches. 

Monday, December 16, 2013

Week 4 Practices 12/16 - 12/22

REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR SIGNED PINELAND PASS FORM TO PRACTICE TOMORROW! This is very important, as skiers without this form will not be able to ski (they will run instead).

We will be traveling to Pineland all week for practices! Here is our schedule (please pay attention to which technique we will be doing for each day):

Monday, 12/16 - Off
Tuesday, 12/17 - Team Practice, SKATE
Wednesday, 12/18 - Team Practice, SKATE
Thursday, 12/19 - On Your Own, 1.5 hour easy distance
Friday, 12/20 - Team Practice, CLASSIC
Saturday, 12/21 - Team Practice, CLASSIC
Sunday, 12/22 - On Your Own, 2 to 2.5 hour easy over distance

See you tomorrow afternoon!

Friday, December 13, 2013

Practice today (Friday, 12/13) and tomorrow (Saturday, 12/14)

Friday's practice will be at the school. We will plan on skiing on the fields, but everyone should have sneakers with them as well!

Saturday's practice will be in Freeport from 9am -12pm. We will announce at practice where we will be meeting.


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Practice Tomorrow (Wednesday, Dec 11)

We will be going to Pineland for practice tomorrow. Please be on time, the bus will depart promptly at 2:45pm!

What we do for practice will depend on the conditions, so please bring ALL equipment to school:


  • Classic skis, classic poles, classic boots
  • Skate skis, skate poles, skate boots
  • Sneakers
  • Warm clothes
  • Change of clothes for after practice
See you tomorrow!

Monday, December 9, 2013

"Hands on" wax clinic at LL Bean

Wednesday December 11 at 7 pm LL Bean is hosting a hands-on waxing clinic. Bring your skis and learn how to wax as you work on your own skis.
Located at the L.L. Bean Bike/Boat/Ski store on Main St.

Skiing this Week??!!

Winter is here! :)
All skiers should be prepared to ski at any of the practices from now on.
Possibility of skiing Wednesday.

Wax your skis and start leaving them at the school wax room just in case we get a bus and there is skiing somewhere, may not be Pineland.
Have your classic skis ready as it may be enough to glide over the snow classic style but not enough to skate.

If you have "rock skis" please use those for the first few ski practices till we see how well conditions are.

You do not want to miss a practice just because your skis are not ready.

Week 3 Practice dec 9 - 15


9 Mon
Day Off
10 Tue
2:45 Practice HS
 
11 Wed
2:45 Practice HS
Intervals
12 Thu
1 hour cardio
w/core strength
 
13 Fri
2:45 Practice HS
Intervals
14 Sat
9 – 12 Practice  PL
Possibility of  traveling to Sugarloaf if snow

15 Sun

2  1/2 hour cardio

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Week 2 Dec 3 - 7 practice schedule


1
Moderate
2 Hour Cardio
 
2
 
3
2:45 Practice HS
Review Goals
4
2:45 Practice HS
Intervals
Review Goals
5
1 hour cardio
w/ core strength
6
2:45 Practice HS
Review Goals
Vote for Capts
7
9 – 12 Practice  PL
Intervals
Announce Capts

Waxing clinic/Pot Luck Dinner

Just a reminder for everyone that this Thursday @ 6 PM with be a waxing clinic put on by Roger Knight of BNS.

This is a combination waxing clinic and pot luck diner. The Potluck assignments are: 
Seniors: Drinks
Juniors: Paper goods
Sophomores: Desserts
Freshmen: Main Dishes
Middle School: Side Dishes

Roger Knight from Boulder Nordic Sport East will be performing a Waxing 101 clinic for the Freeport ski team. Roger is a native Mainer who grew up in Farmington, raced at UNH collegiately, and later went on to be a wax technician with Swix and the US Ski Team at various times. He also was the head of Racing Service for Swix in the US and Product Manager for five years. He has waxed at World Championships and the Olympics multiple times. Currently Roger operates BNS East in Portland, which is the largest Nordic only shop in the US when combined with its partner store in Colorado. BNS is the US importer for SkiGo, Holmenkol, Guru, Magnar, Innovax, and Gallium waxes and provides year round team pricing to all local schools.

Also your team dues need to be paid, and please bring a check made out to The Freeport Ski Boosters. The High School Fee is $100.00, plus $25 for the team hat.

We will also be signing up for the Holiday Camp (skiers and chaperons) will be in the Jackson, NH area. We will be staying at the Isaac Merrill House in North Conway, and skiing at the Jackson Touring Center. We will be leaving at 10 am from the High School on December 26th, and returning on December 28th arriving back in Freeport by 6 pm. Total cost for each skier will be $120, which will include all costs.

See you all Thursday!

Saturday Feb 1 Practice at Pineland

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