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Noque results...
post them here PLEASE ASAP, I'm dying to hear 'em.
Great conditions, 21 deg F @ start, solid track from what it looks like. They won't have official results on website till LATE today. JK |
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Did you find the results page yet? It's at:
http://www.noquemanon.com/results_2002.php It was a FAST Nokie this year! ---Half hour faster than last year. What happened? Was it icy? A DP fest? I see that some of our regulars did very well, too! And Downstaters were nicely represented. Ivan was smokin'. What's his story anyway? I don't recall his name before this year. A recent immigre? Great there's such a hot classic race out there. Did they have that funk band from Chicago again at the bar after the race? Wish I coulda been there... JP |
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Noque Report:
Results are available at www.noquemanon.com The conditions were pretty good for classic skiing, although a fine layer of new snow made the classic tracks very slow, so we ended up having to ski mostly out of the track all day. As usual, aside from the few short hills, it was a double-pole fest. In the men's race, three of us on the Subaru team broke away early with a short effort and then cruised until 8km to go when it was every man for himself. Babikov killed us on one of the last little hills and did not look back. Once I realized that Babikov was gone and I had enough of a lead over Eric Meyer, I cruised in, hoping to save some energy for the upcoming weeks of marathons. We had incredibly good skis, judging by the fact that we dropped everyone pretty easily and managed to pile up a six-minute gap even though we were just cruising. For glide we had Swix LF6 with Cera FC7 powder ironed in, then corked. Kick wax was pretty simple - VR30 binder layer ironed in, 2 layers of VR40, 3-4 layers of VR45. The same thing happened in the women's race - Subaru skiers Abi Larson and Kristina Strandberg skied off the front, although I think they skied most of the race alone. Abi had quite a gap by the finish. Babikov is a Russian who is trying to immigrate to Canada. He did not come on the scene until this year because he spent last year in Canada and previous years in Russia. He raced the following day in Telemark, WI at the Supertour, winning the 15km Skate race there. -Nathan www.nsavage.com "32 degrees" wrote in message ... post them here PLEASE ASAP, I'm dying to hear 'em. Great conditions, 21 deg F @ start, solid track from what it looks like. They won't have official results on website till LATE today. JK |
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Interesting..... I know a guy in the pack behind you and he said they were
"in track" most of the race. I wonder if they coulda been closer if they had skied out of track like you.... just wondering. JK Missed the Noque and still depressed. "Nathan Schultz" wrote in message ... Noque Report: Results are available at www.noquemanon.com The conditions were pretty good for classic skiing, although a fine layer of new snow made the classic tracks very slow, so we ended up having to ski mostly out of the track all day. As usual, aside from the few short hills, it was a double-pole fest. In the men's race, three of us on the Subaru team broke away early with a short effort and then cruised until 8km to go when it was every man for himself. Babikov killed us on one of the last little hills and did not look back. Once I realized that Babikov was gone and I had enough of a lead over Eric Meyer, I cruised in, hoping to save some energy for the upcoming weeks of marathons. We had incredibly good skis, judging by the fact that we dropped everyone pretty easily and managed to pile up a six-minute gap even though we were just cruising. For glide we had Swix LF6 with Cera FC7 powder ironed in, then corked. Kick wax was pretty simple - VR30 binder layer ironed in, 2 layers of VR40, 3-4 layers of VR45. The same thing happened in the women's race - Subaru skiers Abi Larson and Kristina Strandberg skied off the front, although I think they skied most of the race alone. Abi had quite a gap by the finish. Babikov is a Russian who is trying to immigrate to Canada. He did not come on the scene until this year because he spent last year in Canada and previous years in Russia. He raced the following day in Telemark, WI at the Supertour, winning the 15km Skate race there. -Nathan www.nsavage.com "32 degrees" wrote in message ... post them here PLEASE ASAP, I'm dying to hear 'em. Great conditions, 21 deg F @ start, solid track from what it looks like. They won't have official results on website till LATE today. JK |
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Nathan Schultz wrote: Results are available at www.noquemanon.com Now this is impressive... they included 1k and 3k races for kids! Why don't more races do this? Sunday when we were heading out to a local race here my not-quite-4-year-old daughter asked me if she could race, too? A 1k race would have been a bit of a stretch for her but she could probably pull it off if on reasonably flat ground. Yeah, hook-em young! We had incredibly good skis, judging by the fact that we dropped everyone pretty easily and managed to pile up a six-minute gap even though we were just cruising. For glide we had Swix LF6 with Cera FC7 powder ironed in, then corked. Kick wax was pretty simple - VR30 binder layer ironed in, 2 layers of VR40, 3-4 layers of VR45. Ok I gotta ask about the FC7 ironed in, then corked. Is this iron, brush, cork? Or really just iron, cork? Has corking replaced brushing in the fluoro powders now? [Sorry, I've been out of the competition loop for several years but am starting to dabble again and may have the opportunity to use a powder this coming weekend.] -Mitch |
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Jeff:
It depends a lot on how many people skied in the track between when we went by and when your buddy skied through. For us, there was no question. Every few kilometers, one of us would test out the track hoping that conditions had changed and that we could hop in, but it was very obviously much slower in the track, even where there was no fresh snow in the track itself. But, if 5-10 people had skied on the track, it could have changed the conditions completely and the track probably would have ended up faster. -Nathan www.nsavage.com "32 degrees" wrote in message ... Interesting..... I know a guy in the pack behind you and he said they were "in track" most of the race. I wonder if they coulda been closer if they had skied out of track like you.... just wondering. JK Missed the Noque and still depressed. "Nathan Schultz" wrote in message ... Noque Report: Results are available at www.noquemanon.com The conditions were pretty good for classic skiing, although a fine layer of new snow made the classic tracks very slow, so we ended up having to ski mostly out of the track all day. As usual, aside from the few short hills, it was a double-pole fest. In the men's race, three of us on the Subaru team broke away early with a short effort and then cruised until 8km to go when it was every man for himself. Babikov killed us on one of the last little hills and did not look back. Once I realized that Babikov was gone and I had enough of a lead over Eric Meyer, I cruised in, hoping to save some energy for the upcoming weeks of marathons. We had incredibly good skis, judging by the fact that we dropped everyone pretty easily and managed to pile up a six-minute gap even though we were just cruising. For glide we had Swix LF6 with Cera FC7 powder ironed in, then corked. Kick wax was pretty simple - VR30 binder layer ironed in, 2 layers of VR40, 3-4 layers of VR45. The same thing happened in the women's race - Subaru skiers Abi Larson and Kristina Strandberg skied off the front, although I think they skied most of the race alone. Abi had quite a gap by the finish. Babikov is a Russian who is trying to immigrate to Canada. He did not come on the scene until this year because he spent last year in Canada and previous years in Russia. He raced the following day in Telemark, WI at the Supertour, winning the 15km Skate race there. -Nathan www.nsavage.com "32 degrees" wrote in message ... post them here PLEASE ASAP, I'm dying to hear 'em. Great conditions, 21 deg F @ start, solid track from what it looks like. They won't have official results on website till LATE today. JK |
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Iron in the FC7, let it cool, cork it, polish it with the felt thingie,
then brush like hell with a stiff horsehair. We've found that this method offers the best combination of durability and speed. The ironing gives durability, and the corking seems to speed it up quite a bit off the start. -Nathan www.nsavage.com "Mitch Collinsworth" wrote in message ornell.edu... On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Nathan Schultz wrote: Results are available at www.noquemanon.com Now this is impressive... they included 1k and 3k races for kids! Why don't more races do this? Sunday when we were heading out to a local race here my not-quite-4-year-old daughter asked me if she could race, too? A 1k race would have been a bit of a stretch for her but she could probably pull it off if on reasonably flat ground. Yeah, hook-em young! We had incredibly good skis, judging by the fact that we dropped everyone pretty easily and managed to pile up a six-minute gap even though we were just cruising. For glide we had Swix LF6 with Cera FC7 powder ironed in, then corked. Kick wax was pretty simple - VR30 binder layer ironed in, 2 layers of VR40, 3-4 layers of VR45. Ok I gotta ask about the FC7 ironed in, then corked. Is this iron, brush, cork? Or really just iron, cork? Has corking replaced brushing in the fluoro powders now? [Sorry, I've been out of the competition loop for several years but am starting to dabble again and may have the opportunity to use a powder this coming weekend.] -Mitch |
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Yeah, conditions for the leaders are so much different than for the
pack. It's a surprise that awaits those who finally get good enough to get out front. There's no one to follow, for one thing, but then the snow is very different. It's untracked! : ) --JP |
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