Huntly Nordic Ski Club in collaboration with Snowsport Scotland will be hosting a Cross Country Ski Officials Training course on May 2-3 2009. The course take place at Huntly Nordic Ski Centre and the Clashindarroch forest and will be run by one of the two UK FIS accredited race officials, Jim Davidson.
For More Information please download the SNSC Nordic Ski Officials Course document.
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Ski Centre and Squad Appear on Countryfile
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In case you missed it, there was an article on nordic skiiing on the BBC magazine programme Countryfile this weekend. It featured a presenter learning how to cross county ski with Sandy Thorn and interviews with club members, Roy Young, Callum Smith and Andrew Young. The article was filmed last weekend at Huntly Nordic and Outdoor Centre.
We’re going to get a copy of the item to view from here. Here’s the link to the episode on the Countryfile website.
BBC Countryfile logo
Andrews Compete in Dusseldorf
Club members Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young are continued their world cup campaigns this weekend in the sprint races at Dusseldorf.
They both competed in the Sprint qualification races on 20th December. Andrew Newell qualified first with covering the 1.5km route in 3:03.77. Andrew Musgrave took 68th place 19.99 seconds slower and Andrew Young took 70th place 20.63 seconds slower. This leaves them both just over 10% off the fastest qualifier. Continue reading
June 2006 Rollerski Sprints
Time Trials
The races started with time trial sprints over a “flat” 655m & 1135m “Hill” courses. These time were added together to decide the GB Series race.
2 Racers speed by
Remarkably, the first three places were taken by under 18 skiers (Andrew Young (HNSC), Andrew Musgrave (HNSC) and Alistair Duncan (CBNSC)) who just beat former Olympian Mike Dixon (CBNSC) into fourth place. Although a veteran, retired from competitive skiing and not in full training, it was a tremendous achievement for these young skiers to beat Mike and a healthy sign that we have some talented juniors coming up through the ranks. Skiers like Mike are always a target for these young skiers. The first lady home Sarah Young (HNSC) is also under 18. In second place was another Huntly skier Posy Musgrave, who has just moved up into the senior ranks. Fiona Crossley travelled up from Yorkshire to take third place and first female veteran despite a nasty tumble on the hill. Cairngorm brought a large contingent of young skiers who have greatly improved since their last visit to the Huntly races.
Knock Outs
After the time trial races there were open knock-out races over the same sprint courses. With three skiers competing head to head some of the reaces were extremely competitive.
The semi-final with Alistair Duncan just holding off the last gasp challenge from Andrew Musgrave got the spectators excited for the final. In the final Mike Dixon took and held a lead of 5m from Andrew Young with Alistair Duncan struggling to keep with the early pace. However, on the final uphill with 250m to go, Duncan in a fantastic overtaking manoeuvre burst through a small gap while Dixon and Young tangled with each other. Duncan built a few metres lead which he held to win a hugely exciting final from the two pre-race favourites. The Novice knock-out final was won by Stuart Hamna (RAF) who has only been rollerskiing for a few weeks from Huntly new comer Megan Heathershaw. The day finished with a series of age group finals.
Thanks to the Huntly Nordic And Outdoor Centre (Aberdeenshire Council) for using their facility for the races.
Al Dargie’s video of 2006 sprints
Results
HNSC Sprints Results 3rd June 2006
HNSC Rollerski Sprint Knock Out Races 3rd June 2006
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2006 Open Championships (Winter)
Despite being postponed twice this year, once due to no snow and once due to too much snow the club open championships were finally held on 19th March.
Andrew Musgrave pipped Andrew Young for the 8.2km classic title, but Andrew Young took skate title.
Thanks to all the time keepers, marshals and the people who set up the course.
Unfortunately no pictures are available for the event.
2005 Scottish Rollerski Championships
Racers Goofing Around Afterwards
With more than 60 entries Huntly has had more people than any single event this year. The dedicated track provided a superb venue for great racing with visitors from Australia & Russia mixing with 2 ex – Olympic skiers. It is hoped that we can develop further on this with discussions taking place to have the Olympians deliver adult training weekends at the centre.
A cracking weekend of roller skiing with over 50 people at Huntly Nordic and Outdoor Centre! We’ll get a full report in the event pages but just to keep the interest here are the results and some pics.
2005 Club Rollerski Championships
Andrew Young
Our Short Course Rollerski races were the inaugural event on the new Ski Centre track. We were joined by members of the GB Biathlon Development Squad.
Time trials were run over 601m & 409m courses along with head-to-head races over the 601m course. The races were very competitive & our juniors made the GB biathletes work very hard for their medals.
The day was rounded off with what is now becoming a traditional part of our events – the barbecue. Even if you didn’t take part in the races fun was be had helping out, spectating & generally socialising.