Hopefully You Did Not Forget About Us

Good Morning GDHL’ers and happy back to school week! Summer is pretty well over, and that means many things, most important of which is planning your skiing for the upcoming winter. With luck, the GDHL, just like Craigleith will be back to full capacity this season. In an effort to get you thinking about snowy hills and carving tight turns, you will find some great distractions below, as well as our call for volunteers. Beyond this newsletter, there will be  communications from the GDHL before Christmas, as we launch registration, and keep you focused on your off season training.

Call for Committee Members:

The GDHL Committee is looking for new committee members! Yes, our dynamic, charismatic leader Marlene Jackson, has stepped down as the Chair. We thank her for her exceptional, dedicated service over many years! With this change, there will be some shuffling of roles this season, and there will be some other roles available. If you want to make a difference in our ski league, please send an email to gdhl@gdhl.org . Don’t make us come looking for you!

Distractions:

The GDHL newsletter would be disappointing if there were not a few distractions to keep you from working too hard at your day job. Here are a couple items worth your attention:

The World Pro Ski Tour (WPST) was re-ignited in 2017 with the goal to create fun, engaging, large scale carnival style races. With some of the best FIS skiers joining the WPST, the races (which are all dual slalom) are fun to watch. Here is a video documenting what the WPST is all about with some great coverage that includes Craigleith’s Phil Brown.

And here is a video documenting the entire race weekend, with interviews and more.

Are you getting bored with your offseason workout? Well, let Ragnhild Mowinckel introduce some new training tactics for you. Click through to the Ski Racing Media story on the Norwegian World Cup Skier’s newest routines:

That is all for now. The Committee is excited to have you all back in gates this year and we look forward to seeing you at the Club.

-Doug Jarvis