Done with the first real race of the season and it went extremely well!
We had 20 people racing today, 18 in the USCSA Qualifier, 7.5km classic, and 2 in the 15km classic (Grigory and Rachel). We had an awesome coaching crew of Ashley, Brian, Kelly and Christi and it was a good thing. Getting 20 pairs or skis waxed for a mass start race is always interesting but when the clamps for the benches are sitting happily in Laramie it is even more interesting. We managed to work out a system that allowed three of us to wax at once but it required Brian to hold skis while Kelly actually waxed the ski. Despite the difficulty we actually got everyone waxed in great time and the skis rocked!
It was -15˚C when we got there but by race time it warmed up to -6˚C with moderate humidity (50ish%). We had based waxed with Fast Wax Blue HS-20 and put Fast Wax Tan HSF-20 on top the skis were rocking fast. For more information about Fast Wax go to http://www.skifastwax.com/ For the kick we went with 3 layers of Rode Green for base wax covered with 3 layers of Star Top Blue. The kick was amazing and everyone was amazed with their skis.
We didn't get a copy of the results to so I can't report for sure on those but Eliah won the 7.5km and Dan was 3rd in the race and Gwynn was 2nd in the women's followed closely by Gracey. Everyone skied well and we're extremely proud. We'll link the results, once we get them, to the webpage.
Tomorrow is the Devil's Thumb Skate race. We'll be racing on the course that will be used at USCSA Nationals so that will be great experience. It will be an extremely small field with only UW, WSC and USAFA but it will be fun!
More tomorrow!
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