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Tour de Ski Round Up

congratulations to Andrew Musgrave who finished his second Tour de Ski by finishing 52nd after the final 9km hill climb stage yesterday. This is the same place as he finished last year but I suspect in percentage terms he has improved a lot, especially after his 11th place in the Sprints. There were 7 stages this year compared to 9 last year.

Also congratulations to Andrew Young for taking part in his first Tour. He only planned to complete the first two stages in preparation for the World Juniors later this month. He looks on form.

And finally congratulations to Roy Young for masterminding another successful foray into international competition for British skiers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryo-mIDbPs0

Muzzy Takes 11th in Tour Sprint

Andrew Musgrave took 11th place in the Tour de Ski sprint final today, an outstanding achievement. Huntly skier Andrew Young did not such a good day after taking a fall earlier in the day. Fiona Hughes is also skiing for the UK in this year’s tour. The event was won by Norway’s Finn Haagen Krogh, with Kikkan Randall from the USA taking the women’s title.

Best wishes to all our guys for the rest of the event.

Muzzy Takes 12th Place on First Day of Beitostolen

It is a busy opening weekend for Nordic Ski season with events at Bruksvallarna and Beitostolen.

Andrew Musgrave took 12th place on Friday in the 15km Freestyle race. Andrew Young came in 47th place from a field of 120.

Meanwhile at Bruksvallarna Posy Musgrave took 60th place in in the 10km Ladies Classic and Sarah Young came in just behind in 65th place. Stuart Gray, Gregor Young and Alex Standen are also out in in Bruckvallarna.

Live timings from races at Bruksvallarna are available from

http://www.emit.nu/resultat/live/121117/

http://www.emit.nu/resultat/live/121116/

On another note, there is a beautiful film on the NRK website about Anders Fortun, the man who  pistes the Norwegian traing area in Sognefell in June. If you don’t know any Norwegian just sit back and enjoy the delightful snowy scenes in the mountains

http://tv.nrk.no/serie/glimt-av-norge/dksf45000112/15-11-2012

Huntly Championships 2012

This year’s Huntly Championships were blessed with some of the best weather we have seen in the last 5 years. From the start of the races we had wall to wall sunshine and not a drop of rain fell on the track all day.

There was an impressive turn out in the Novice class with 11 entrants highest number in any group for the day, it was great to see so many younger skiers racing. Caringorm put in a good showing in this class with club members Connor Sinclair and Stephanie Dare picking up the first boy and girl titles respectively. Huntly skier Laura Patterson picked up the fastest U10 title, beating her mother Zosia by 34 seconds.

Huntly also did well in the U12/U14 3.7km race, Oliver Newman managed to beat his brother Fergust to 1st U14, while Lynne Gray stole a 5 second lead over Beth Maclean in the U14 F classification.

In the older age groups Cairngorn dominance reasserted itself, with Robers Sircus and Hector Cowie taking off the Senior and U18 titles. Second and Third place in the Senior race was a close run thing with Carl Carrier seeing off Carl Pointer  by a  narrow 10 seconds. Watch out  next year Mr Carrier! Huntly Skier Duncan Gibb took faster U16 M while David Horsley was the fastest Vet M. Fiona Crossley had a lonely race taking first place Vet F.

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Huntly Championship Entry Forms

The Huntly Championships are coming up soon on 8th September.

Please get as many entry forms to Peter Thorn in advance as possible. This work and organizations on the day, which can be stressful.

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Any volunteers for marshalling will be very welcome this year, expecially some helpers for Peter Thorn who will be doing the lap counting.

Scottish Rollerski Championships 2012

Sunday saw the Scottish rollerski championship race, held on the Cairngorm ski road over various distances and run by CBNSC. Yet again the weather was kind to all who competed with clear skies and sunny conditions prevailing, creating good if perhaps a little hot, racing conditions.

By the end of the day, Huntly skiers had achieved considerable success and all those who took part skied with a determination and effort that they should be proud of!

The club now has the following Scottish rollerski champions amongst its ranks:

  • Scottish under 16 Boys Champion; Duncan Gibb
  • Scottish under 14 Boys Champion; Fergus Newman
  • Scottish under 14 Girls Champion; Lynne Gray
  • Scottish under 12 Boys Champion; Callum Cooper

Sorry about the photo Duncan, we didn’t have anything newer.

British Championships Entry Forms

The British Championships this year are being run by Highland Nordic, the day after the Huntly Races to make a fun packed weekend of rollerski racing

The British Championships are being held at Aviemore in the Classic Style on 9th September. Entries must be received by Friday 7th September byRoger Homyer (roger.homyer@hotmail.co.uk).

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Huntly Sprints 2012

The rain mostly held off for this year’s sprints and there was a good turn out with 60 entrants from as far afield as Cornwall.

 

 Click on the picture below for some pictures of the event. Further pictures will be put up over the week as they come back from the lab.

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