LHS Nordic Ski Team Blog!!

Please go to http://mbna.pbworks.com/Results_12_30_Free for results! Awesome job!

To register for tomorrow go to: http://mbna.pbworks.com/Racing+Information

Pictures from the Casper race are here. Remember: type ' lhsnordic ' in the box marked 'email'. Password is the exit we take. Click 'My Photos' when you are in. I snapped photos of almost everyone. Sorry if I missed you. I sent a couple of these to the Boomerang. Hopefully they will appear with our articles at some future date.

Everyone who is properly prepared for the Casper night relay, raise your hand.

We will not be having organized practice on Monday. Make sure you still get out an do some skiing! See you Tuesday.

Hi All, Hope that everyone had a fantastic Christmas! Here is the plan for next week. Monday - Wednesday we will meet at Happy Jack at 9:00 am. Monday: Skate skiing / Warm Up 15 min. / Drills 40 min. / Cool Down 10 min. Tuesday: Classic Skiing / Warm Up 15 min. / General Strength / Cool Down 10 min. Wednesday: Skate Skiing / 30 min. Warm Up /5 at 5 / 10 min. Cool Down Thursday: No Practice / 2:00 hour LSD / Technique of your choice Friday: No Practice / Rest Day / Happy New Year! Saturday: No Practice / 2:00 hour LSD / Technique of your choice

If you have not gotten to see results from Casper you can find them at: http://nordicski.org/pages/results.html

You can find results for the 5 @ 5 at: http://mbna.pbworks.com/Racing+Information

It's going to be an intense, fun week! Make sure you are getting enough rest, water and food to keep your body ready to go! Monday: Warm-up 20 min/ Game! / Cool Down 15 min. Tuesday: Warm-up 20 min./ General Strength/ 15 min. Cool down at 4:30 Wednesday: Classic Ski 5 at 5. Because of last weeks cold weather we have moved our race to this week. Thursday: Team Picture / Waxing / Team dinner Ellen's house! Friday: Leave for Casper! 11:30 dismissal and leave the parking lot at 12:00 Race: Night relay 3x1 k Start time: 5:00pm Saturday: Race: Classic 5k for Varsity 3k JV Start Time: 9:00 am

Great job this weekend! Pictures from the Laramie race are posted here. The pictures are passworded, for internet safety purposes. The account name you need to view the pictures is ' lhsnordic ' (without the quotes, enter it in the 'email' box, no @ sign). The password is the name of the exit that we take to get to our skiing area . Once you are in, click on 'My Photos', then the picture of Ethan charging up Campground hill. If you want to download and post some pictures to your Face Book page, that is okay. Please ask permission of any others in the photo before doing so. A note about the photos. There are many good photos here. To save space they have been reduced to lower resolution. If you or your parents want a full resolution copy of one or more photos, send an email to tlm82070@gmail.com, let me know which one(s), and I will send you a copy via email or jump drive. While there are many good photos here, there are also some bad ones. I continue to ...

Here is a link to all of the results for this weekend. http://www.uwyo.edu/ski/highschool/results.htm

Monday: Skate Skiing: Warm-up 20 min/ Drills/ Cool Down 15 min. Tuesday: Warm-up 20 min./ General Strength/ 15 min. Cool down Wednesday: 5 at 5! We will be participating in the 5 at 5 race. The UW team and us will be using these races to fundraise for a new timing system! Bring worm cloths and a head lamp if you have it. Thursday: Classic Ski: Warm-up 20 min./ 30 min. double pole & 16 min. single stick/ Cool down 15 min. Friday: LSD Classic ski 1:15

I took this picture of the Atomic vendor's ski rack in "tent city" at the West Yellowstone Nordic Festival over Thanksgiving. Atomic and other vendors were allowing people to demo ski their top-of-the-line skis for free. I demo-ed Fisher and Atomics. Most of these vendors will be present at nationals. Yet another reason to ski hard and try for the national's team.

Great job, again, on tonight's skate time trial. Your times are posted here.