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Mich racers do great at World Masters!
I'm no statistician, but from the looks of it, the Lower Peninsula of
Michigan sent a nice group of skiers over to the World Masters in Lillehammer this year and did really well. I have a fast hookup but darn all those PDF files and all those age groups ARE CONFUSING. So I'm just going by guesswork and vague recall here. I didn't write down anything as I wandered thru the JILLION results files. And I only looked at the guys. Offhand, it looks like ours was the biggest US contingent, with 3 or 4 from one region. Also, I'd say that all our skiers were true citizen racers, non-team, maybe even non-college types. Regular guys with jobs and kids. In addition to the Michigan Force there seems to have been a couple former US Olympians and then another 3-4 from the rest of the US. Our Michiganders appeared to generally have finished 10th-20th in basically all the events they entered. Once at least they were the best US finishers. Maybe Milan once got 6th or 8th or something very good. It seems in general that our local gang held down 15th and a couple other places in that vicinity in every event. That was my impression. Also, our local guys seemed equally strong across the board: each guy seemed to have nailed about 15th at least once: Milan, Denny, Tim, Randy, sorry if I forget other locals. From various reports it seems like the racing set-up was a little unusual, something about selecting alternating techniques every day and not knowing who you'd ski against. Hard to follow for soft heads. It was great to see Todd Boonstra GET A GOLD! And maybe Jon Engen, too? Yikes. I'm lousy at this. Well, those guys DID GREAT anyway. And so did our local heroes! And all of them look like they raced a VERY FULL WEEK. No sandbagging or selective cherrypicking. I saw all their names in almost all the events. I hope they all had a great time. It looks like they did. The USA looks to have had great results. It must've been AMAZING to race in the SKIER'S HEAVEN! I hope there were BIG CROWDS for them all. -- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publisher of do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more! ... ... offering Vordenberg's XC ski tales in "Momentum"! ... ... "The Recumbent Bicycle": the only book about these bikes! ... ... Rudloe's "Potluck": true-life story of workingclass smuggling! ... ... with radical novels coming up via LiteraryRevolution.com! ... ... music! ... articles! ... travel forums! ... WOW! 800-763-6923 |
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Mich racers do great at World Masters!
Jeff Potter wrote in message ...
I'm no statistician, but from the looks of it, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan sent a nice group of skiers over to the World Masters in Lillehammer this year and did really well. .... Also, I'd say that all our skiers were true citizen racers, non-team, maybe even non-college types. Regular guys with jobs and kids. .... In addition to the Michigan Force there seems to have been a couple former US Olympians and then another 3-4 from the rest of the US. Our Michiganders appeared to generally have finished 10th-20th in basically all the events they entered. Once at least they were the best US finishers. Maybe Milan once got 6th or 8th or something very good. It seems in general that our local gang held down 15th and a couple other places in that vicinity in every event. That was my impression. Also, our local guys seemed equally strong across the board: each guy seemed to have nailed about 15th at least once: Milan, Denny, Tim, Randy, sorry if I forget other locals. It was great to see Todd Boonstra GET A GOLD! And maybe Jon Engen, too? Yikes. I'm lousy at this. Well, those guys DID GREAT anyway. And so did our local heroes! And all of them look like they raced a VERY FULL WEEK. No sandbagging or selective cherrypicking. I saw all their names in almost all the events. I hope they all had a great time. It looks like they did. The USA looks to have had great results. It must've been AMAZING to race in the SKIER'S HEAVEN! I hope there were BIG CROWDS for them all. -- Jeff Potter Jeffy ! You gotta get out to the Michigan Cup races in your backyard more ! It's awesome. The hot mover of the year was Ludington & GRNST's own David MacClean ! He got in front of Milan a couple times in Lillehammer (!), thus qualified for the Silver Medal Relay squad with Engen, Boonstra & Aalberg ! How's that for exciting Masters Racing ! He missed yesterdays Michigan Cup Classic 15k @ Boyne Saturday, but he was there today for the 15k FS race. (BOY ! What a weekend ! Probably the best race weekend of the year. What snow. What trails. What competition) It was really something to see David MacClean ski away from the lead pack in the middle of the first lap and hang on for the win. He's had a great year, and yep, he meets the regular working Joe-skier standard (contractor). The Michigan Cup Rocks. Oh, & the "skating in classic races" issue has been taken care of. See Muha's site (www.NordicSkiRacer.com) for details on the repair. It was business better than usual on Saturday with nobody grumbling about skaters in the classic race, and plenty of ski racers very pleased that the matter has been brought out into the open and evidently corrected. Much more fun. |
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Mich racers do great at World Masters!
David McClean is a Michigander? Cool! I saw the name but didn't check the locale. Man, we even keep on getting more
great skiers around here. Good to hear about the fine skiing, Dell. I'll keep an eye out for the results. I sure wouldn't mind a longer spring ski season. I only got one day of crust skiing in. -- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publisher of do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more! ... ... offering Vordenberg's XC ski tales in "Momentum"! ... ... "The Recumbent Bicycle": the only book about these bikes! ... ... Rudloe's "Potluck": true-life story of workingclass smuggling! ... ... with radical novels coming up via LiteraryRevolution.com! ... ... music! ... articles! ... travel forums! ... WOW! 800-763-6923 |
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