March 13th, 2010
Congratulations to our 1 J1 National Champion Michaela Frias. Quite an accomplishment; especially for a first year J1! Michaela’s performance today was the culmination of many years of consistent and focused training.
Between May 4 and today, Michaela has put in over 435 hours of training.
Here is a breakdown of what her training volume looked like through the first 10 training periods:
Period 1 35:20
Period 2 47:49
Period 3 49:29
Period 4 46:55
Period 5: 36:06
Period 6: 38:01
Period 7: 38:03
Period 8: 35:15
Period 9: 32:15
Period 10:31:38
Pre Race Dinner: Lasagna and Caesar Salad
Pre Race breakfast: yogurt with cereal and toast
2 commentsMarch 4th, 2010
16.5 hours of travel if all goes smoothly!
Itinerary:
3.5 hour drive Steamboat to Denver
Depart Denver 9:00am
ETA Midnight in Presque Isle
March 2nd, 2010
RMISA NCAA Regionals and Final Rocky Mountain JNQ RECAP:
We are coming off a very successful race weekend on our home course here in Steamboat Springs. The SSWSC took home the Colorado Cup (awarded to the top performing RMN club) for the second consecutive year! In addition to this award, the SSWSC qualified 13 athletes for Junior Nationals in Maine.
Friday Individual Start 5/10km classic:
On Friday, our J1/OJ athletes were given the opportunity to race with the college skiers. The SSWSC result of the day belonged to first year J1 Michaela Frias who placed 12th in the collegiate field
J2 Girls
1 Rachel Hampton
2 Kelsey Phinney
3 Lucy Newman SSWSC
J2 Boys
1 Gino Pastore
2 Max Scrimgeour SSWSC
3 Garrett Geer
J1/OJ Girls
1 Joanne Reid
2 Kate Dolan
3 Michaela Frias
J1/OJ Boys
1 Andrew Dougherty
2 Tyler Reinking
3 Hans Nygren
Saturday Mass start skate 5/10km
The story of the day for us was the SSWSC sweep of the J2 girls field
J2 Girls
1 Mary O’connell SSWSC
2 Emily Hannah SSWSC
3 Madison Keefe SSWSC
J2 Boys
1 Max Scrimgeour SSWSC
2 Gino Pastore
3 Garrett Geet
J1/OJ Girls
1 Michaela Frias SSWSC
2 Haley Piske SSWSC
3 Alicia Rose Pastore
J1/OJ Boys
1 Max Burnell
2 Michael Ward SSWSC
3 Sean Woods
Full Results are available at www.summittiming.com
We leave on our long journey to Maine on Thursday!
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February 11th, 2010
The events of steamboat’s epic Winter Carnival celebration are now behind us and we are approaching the final 3 weeks of preparation for Junior Nationals. Congratulations to our very own Molly Newman who was named the 2010 Winter Carnival Queen. If you have never heard of, seen or been to Steamboat’s Winter Carnival, this is the weekend to come to Steamboat to see parades, downtown Nordic sprints, ski-joring behind horses and watch the night show which includes ski jumpers jumping through a ring of fire, an amazing fireworks display, and this year the send off of our 17 local Olympic athletes.
This weekend, we will take several of our top athletes to Aspen to compete in the Super Tour races. The goal here, other than going to get in some quality racing is to get some good points to improve ranking and start positioning for the athletes when they go to Maine to race.
Next week our public school athletes have a full week off from school. We plan to use this time to put in a solid week of training in terms of both volume and intensity. The private school athletes who have school, and those who are on the borderline to qualify for JN’s will put in a mini intensity block sans volume.
After that, we will drop volume to prepare to peak for JN’s. In these next few weeks the intensity sessions get shorter and hopefully faster so the athlete become accustomed to the pace they will need to maintain at sea level in Presque Isle. Stay tuned for a report from Aspen!
No commentsFebruary 3rd, 2010
Read the article here:
http://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/2010/…
January 31st, 2010
The west coast junior ski world gathered at the 2002 Olympic Venue this weekend for the “Super Junior National Qualifier.” Both days began with the usual morning fog, and like clockwork, at 11:00, the sun burst through and provided 2 spectacular days of ski racing.
Results are available at www.summittiming.com
Freestyle Sprint Friday-
1st J2 Men: Max Scrimgeour won the qualifier and put on a show winning each heat and then put the smack down on the final hill going in to the finish to claim a convincing victory
3rd J2 Woman Emily Hannah- she qualified second (the first two J2 girls qualified 1st and 4th among all junior girls) and hung on for 3rd overall
The highlight of the day for us was placing 5 of top 11 in the J2 girls division. These girls push each other to improve everyday in training.
Classic distance race:
Michaela Frias, Haley Piske, and Betsy Neal (all 16 years old) finished 2,3,5 respectively in the Junior division (19 and under).
In J2 Girls, lucy newman lead the SSWSC with a 4th place finish.


Emily Hannah: A-Final Start
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January 26th, 2010
January 26th, 2010
With 4 of 8 races completed, the current standings for RMN are available at: www.rmnordic.org
An athletes best 4 races are scored
Next JNQ is the Super Qualifier at Soldier Hollow this weekend!
No commentsJanuary 18th, 2010
Full Results available at: http://www.durangonordic.org/Results/res…
Classic Sprint:
Recently Colorado has been experiencing spring like ski conditions and Saturdays classic sprint race in Durango was no exception. Conditions were fast and bluebird and most teams raced on klister (a rarity in CO). The course was mostly double pole for the first half, then after a short downhill with a sharp turn, athletes strided a gradual uphill to the finish. The day was very successful for the SSWSC. The most improved athletes from our club from the first JNQ were Dori Mcneil’s 2nd place and Evan Weinman’s 6th. It was fun to watch these two athletes step up their skiing to a new level and drastically improve their chances of making our JN team.
SSWSC had 4 of 6 girls in both the J2 and J1/OJ A finals
Classic Sprint Podiums
J2 Girls:
1Lucy Newman
2Dori Mcneil
J2 Boys:
2 Max Scrimgeour
J1 Girls
2 Michaela Frias
3) Haley Piske
OJ Boys:
1 Eliot Neal
OJ Girls
1 Molly Newman

J2 female final
Skate Distance Races Individual Start
Sundays Skate Race took place at 8,800ft Purgatory Mountain Resort (a significantly higher elevation than Saturdays races). The highlight for the SSWSC was Emily Hannah’s 30 second victory in the J2 division.
Skate Distance Podiums
J2 girls:
Emily Hannah
J1 Girls
2) Michaela Frias
3) Haley Piske
Thanks to DNSC for putting on a great race weekend. JNQ qualification standings should be available soon at www.rmnordic.org
Now we will try to put in a solid 9 days of training before the big Western Showdown-The SUPER JNQ at SOHO-

Emily Hannah-Excellent Racing













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