Racers on Kearsarge

Mt. Kearsarge racers gather for a post-race summit photo on a magnificent day! 

Kearsarge Race #1 - Skate

Place	Name	Time	Div	Div Rank	Club
1	Sam Evans-Brown	28m 59s	O18M	1	Concord Nordic
2	James Kitch	29m 9s	U18M	1	CSU
3	Oliver Snow	29m 32s	U18M	2	CSU
4	Jacob Jampel	29m 45s	U18M	3	CSU
5	Matt Moreau	31m 1s	U16M	1	CSU
6	Josh Valentine	32m 18s	U16M	2	GNA
7	Henry Johnstone	32m 41s	U16M	3	CSU
8	Jackson Hardin	33m 29s	U18M	4	CSU
9	Laura Appleby	33m 50s	U16F	1	CSU
10	Rob Bradlee	36m 9s	O18M	2	CSU
11	Heiner Baumann	37m 14s	O18M	3	CSU
12	Gabby Vandendries	38m 8s	U18F	1	CSU
13	Madeline Kitch	38m 50s	U16F	2	CSU
14	Alex Burt	40m 29s	U16M	4	CSU
15	Barry Kitch	43m 39s	O18M	4	CSU
16	Emily Nottonson	43m 39s	U18F	2	CSU
17	Eva Baumannn	43m 40s	U16F	3	CSU
18	Mary Kretchmer	44m 10s	U18F	4	GNA
19	Heather Deacon	49m 2s	U16F	3	GNA
20	Lydia Yoder	51m 1s	U18F	5	CSU

Kearsarge Race #2 - Classic

Place	Name	Time	Div	Div Rank	Club
1	Adam Glueck	26m 33s	U18M	1	Ford Sayre
2	James Kitch	27m 8s	U18M	2	CSU
3	Tim Cunningham	27m 30s	U18M	3	Ford Sayre
4	Josh Valentine	27m 41s	U16M	1	GNA
5	Matt Moreau	28m 12s	U16M	2	CSU
6	Henry Johnstone	28m 14s	U16M	3	CSU
7	Tyler Lee	29m 29s	U18M	4	CSU
8	Jackson Hardin	30m 50s	U18M	5	CSU
9	Kevin Telfor	31m 26s	U16M	4	CSU
10	Ben Buchheit	31m 35s	U16M	5	CSU
11	Rob Bradlee	31m 52s	O18M	1	CSU
12	Linden Niedeck	32m 1s	U16M	6	CSU
13	Kathy Maddock	32m 21s	O18F	1	DXC
14	Gabby Vandendries	33m 58s	U18F	1	CSU
15	Madeline Kitch	34m 42s	U16F	1	CSU
16	John Cunningham	34m 43s	U18M	6	Ford Sayre
17	Jim Burnham	34m 58s	O18M	2	CSU
18	Heiner Baumann	36m 42s	O18M	3	CSU
19	Alex Burt	36m 48s	U16M	7	CSU
20	Jamie Doucett	37m 37s	O18M	4	CSU
21	Mary Kretchmer	34m 54s	U18F	2	GNA
23	Bob Burnham	38m 11s	O18M	5	CSU
24	Barry Kitch	38m 31s	O18M	6	CSU
25	Eva Baumannn	39m 23s	U16F	2	CSU
26	Heather Deacon	40m	U16F	3	GNA
27	Emily Nottonson	43m 49s	U18F	3	CSU
28	Lorelei Poch	46m 47s	U18F	4	CSU

CSU Fall Classic Rollerski Race

A Typical New England Fall Day

I woke up at 4 am this morning to the sound of hard rain, grabbed the iPad and checked the radar and it looked like it was almost done, so back to sleep.  The weather by race time had considerably improved, although we were left with soaking wet roads, slippery leaves and even slipperier crack sealer in places.  32 skiers suddenly appeared giving me the largest turnout in many years!  It always helps that Chris City brings the Harvard team up and this year with 12 athletes that helped boost the numbers.  12 CSU juniors also raced so it got crowded out there on the first lap.  By the time the race started the sun started peeking in and out of the clouds.

My view from well back in the fray was of a lot of younger skiers going away up the road in front of me on the first hill as usual.  I never get much warmup so thats to be expected and on the long downhill I was able to get in a nice group with Robert, Clara, Hannah H and we were chasing Charlotte, but without much success as she quickly left us behind.  Up front a big group formed in a nice train and went down the road very quickly. The lead in our group went back and forth a bit with Clara and/or Robert cruising past on longer downhills or Hannah going by on uphills and then I'd play catch up. On Lap 2 Hannah fell off the pace and I tried hard on the long downhill to drop them both but that wasn't happening and on the 1st downhill on the back half of the course Clara went by and gapped Robert and I enough that we couldn't close it down and catch up. Clara is making a habit of this having done the same move last year.  The new pavement on the finish street did make for a nice DP sprint amongst the 3 of us.

Meanwhile, up front Connor and Will were going at it lapping through together with Ian a bit further back.  Will faded on Lap 2 and Ian got by, but Conner pulled out to win by 1 minute.  On the women's side Rachel led the whole way (sorry, no Lap 1 splits) with Charlotte close behind in 2nd and Nina coming in 3rd a ways further back.  Andy and Marc had an epic finish sprint duel with Marc besting Andy by a smudge as they shot their feet at the line.

In the junior race James and Oliver took the top two spots and were mixing it up with the Harvard boys.   Laura had an excellent race out in the front with Lorelei and Lydia having a good race together finishing 2 sec. apart.

By the time of the awards the clouds had returned and some frozen stuff fell for a couple minutes.  Yup, a typical November day with a little bit of everything.

Prizes were pies, cider donuts and ski flex certificates and several pairs of glasses provided by Chris Li at Bikeway Source.

Thanks to Chris City for the race photos and Dmitry for the post race photos.

Thanks to my assistants, Paul and Sarah Gerver, Evan Doucett, John Adams and Brian Telfer for doing the registration, timing and corner marshaling.

Place	Name	Lap 1	Finish
	MEN
1	Connor Green	0:19:18	0:38:46
2	Ian Meyer	0:19:36	0:39:43
3	Will Rhatigan	0:19:18	0:40:03
4	Jacob Meyerson	0:22:18	0:44:32
5	Marc Roy	0:23:02	0:45:35
6	Andy Milne	0:22:47	0:45:36
7	Jamie Doucett	0:23:47	0:46:58
8	Robert Faltus	0:23:48	0:46:59
9	Bob Burnham	0:24:42	0:49:27
10	Dmitriy Leyfer	0:24:49	0:50:50
11	Haaken Sigurslid	0:20:47	0:51:46
1	WOMEN
2	Rachel Hampton		0:44:23
3	Charlotte Cole		0:44:37
4	Nina Armstrong	0:22:47	0:46:07
5	Clara Cousins	0:23:46	0:46:56
6	Hannah Hardenbergh	0:23:48	0:48:26
7	Lily Koffman	0:24:47	0:49:21
8	Hannah Smith	0:26:01	0:51:57
9	Jody Newton	0:34:08	1:08:51
	JUNIORS	Finish
	Women
1	Laura Appleby	0:23:00
2	Lorelei Poch	0:28:31
3	Lydia Yoder	0:28:33
	Men
1	James Kitch	0:19:17
2	Oliver Snow	0:19:46
3	Jacob Jampel	0:20:44
4	Henry Johnstone	0:22:19
5	Tyler Lee	0:22:24
6	Kevin Telfer	0:22:48
7	Ben Buchheit	0:23:11
8	Linden Niedeck	0:24:05
9	Alex Burt	0:24:33
10	Barry Kitch	0:28:08
11	Bjorn Zetterland	0:33:58