RACES ARE BACK!
Thank you to everyone for your patience this past weekend. The weather did not cooperate with us and the GDHL committee had to make live-time decisions with the health and safety of everyone in mind. Now we’ve got lots of great news to share! We have been rescheduled for a double header this weekend! To find out more about our rescheduling, read below, and click through to the updated schedule page on the GDHL website.
Even though most of us were not skiing last weekend, there we still some who found some snow. There were some strong Canadian results on the World Cup Circuit last weekend, as well a solid Interclub race held at Alpine on Saturday. At Craigleith, a group of die-hard ladies followed their fearless leader and coach, Shelley, through the rain. All this while a large contingent of Craigleith gentlemen enjoyed catskiing through BC outback. All this and more can be found in the newsletter below.
Finally, a Race Notice to Smile About 😊
After two cancellation notices last weekend, we are ecstatic to bring to you a race notice, announcing our rescheduled races! This weekend was supposed to be open on the schedule, but with the help of the race office, we’ve been provided two races this weekend. DOUBLE HEADER WEEKEND IS BACK!
Race 1: Saturday January 18 – GDHL GS on BIG JOHN – PM
Race 2: Sunday January 19 – GDHL GS on LANDSLIDE – PM
Saturday’s race is a traditional GS down Big John; inspection at 12:15, race start at 1 pm. Sunday’s race is a “MODIFIED GS” down Landslide. This is our annual speed event and is very exciting! With every year’s speed event, come specific rules to run the race, including but not limited to: mandatory inspection check in, hard eared helmets and functional pole baskets on each pole. You will receive a special email regarding all the rules before the weekend starts, to ensure you can abide by all of them. For those of you who would like to do you due diligence now, they are also available here.
Thank you to Keith Farnand, Dave Campbell, Kylie Deacon in the race office, Jen Gillard and the rest of the Coyotes for their work to get us re-scheduled, and for keeping us safe last weekend!
World Cup Update:
It has been a tough year for the Canadian Alpine Skiers. They’ve continued to put competitive runs through courses but haven’t been able to match two solid runs in a day to find the podium. Last weekend was no different, with some great results, but no one was in the hardware. In the lady’s race weekend in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria (if you think it’s hard to pronounce, try spelling it!), Roni Remme skied to a 12th place finish in the Super Combined (1 Super G Run, 1 Slalom Run), while Fredrica Brignone took home her 3rd win of the season. The men were skiing in Aldeboden, Switzerland, and Erik Read (son of Ken), put down a blistering second run time to finish 0.66 seconds off the lead and in 11th place.
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Who else was skiing last weekend?
As mentioned above, even though most of us didn’t even think to put their ski boots on (your newsletter editor is guilty of this), some did get some runs in! Shelley Johnston took her team of fearless ladies for some laps in the torrential rain and posted on Facebook to prove it.
While we were getting rained on, a group of GDHLers were enjoying backcountry champagne powder out west. I am sure Greg, Jeff, Scott, and multiple other GDHL alum will be happy to share with you their stories of the beautiful back country they enjoyed!
Now a note from Dave Campbell:
NZ Thursday Night ‘Get in the Gates’ Training will begin on Thursday January 16th. New this year people must sign up and register on the NZF website - direct link you can use this so it takes people right to the registration: http://nzfoundation.crowdchange.co/craigleiththursdays
We are also looking to utilize these nights to help prepare and train coaches on the CSC PL pathway with exposure to the SOD athletes and a number of the AOA/CSC PL facilitators will be on site these nights.
The Crowdchange site is now live and also we have noted on the NZF homepage - www.nzfoundation.ca
See you on the slopes this weekend! It is going to be great!
-Doug Jarvis