This season the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club bought a new Pisten Bully (a big machine used to groom ski trails, click
here for picture), but they are still having a bit of trouble coming up with all the money to pay for it. Myself and the rest of the Yukon Elite Squad decided to help the Club out by doing a fundraiser. Local wax/ski connoisseur Gerard Frostad put on a waxing clinic while the YES volunteered to clean up/hot wax skis for donations to help pay for the Pisten Bully.
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| The YES (in red) hard at work waxing skis. (l-r) Knute, Colin, John, David |
This past week we also played hosts to the Callaghan Valley Training Centre. The CVTC was looking to get some on-snow training before the racing season starts, and as Whitehorse is currently the only place in Canada to be skiing on real snow, it was a good fit for them to come up here. It's always nice to have some new training partners to make things a little more exciting. The Yukon News did a story on this subject, click
here to check it out. During their time here we joined up to do a couple intensity sessions, including a sprint race simulation, click
here for the Whitehorse Star's coverage of the "race".
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| Me during some sprinting action. Photo ©WhitehorseStar/Vince Fedoroff |
There is exactly two weeks before I leave Whitehorse to officially start the racing season. Training is going good and I'm starting to get excited!
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