Huntly Nordic Ski Club

Huntly Nordic Ski Centre is hosting the following courses for the holidays.

Age 8-16 (allowance will be made for slightly younger if you have been using rollerskis at JDS) 1hr per day Monday to Friday £25 per child per block

Improvers

Suitable for those who have done the primary school sessions on Tuesdays or have their Orange JDS award
26th to 30th July inc. or 9th to 13th August inc. 11am to 12pm.

Advanced

Suitable for those with their Red, Blue or Purple JDS awards
19th to 23rd July inc. or 2nd to 6th August inc. 11am to 12pm.

Please Book in advance

http://www.nordicski.co.uk/hnoc/

The sprints were held today. The despite the damage to the track last Autumn a full program of racing was completed with Novice and Elite Courses and a knock-out. Attendance appeared to be a bit down on last year, but a strong team  from Cairngorm Biathlon And Nordic Ski Club meant there was tough competition. In addition the RAF team was in attendance lead by Steve Perry. The

Club member Andrew Young took first place in the Men’s Elite competition, follwed closely by Alex Standen. Hopefully this is a good sign for Alex’s upcoming Winter season. Cairngorm U16 member Calumn Irvine took third place, marking him as someone to keep an eye on in future.

With Sarah Young competing in the men’s competition, Highland Nordic’s Katy Homyer took the laurels in the Women’s competition. Unfortunately Catriona Dudgeon took a nasty fall in the 500m time trial which knocked her out of the day’s competition. Full results below

Thanks to the Lovely Timing Ladies	Thanks To Frank Musgrave for being Our Race Director
		I'm thinking Top Gear Presenters
	Sarah Young	Thanks to Rick for another year's barbeque

Here’s Pete’s latest newsletter. Thanks to all those who contributed

At the 5km F FIS race at Ylitornio in Finland at the weekend Posy Musgrave broke the magic 120 FIS pts barrier (119.47 pts) to earn herself World Cup qualifier. In the same race just 3secs behind Posy was Sarah Young which was a tantalising 2 secs outside a World Cup qualification standard (122.65 pts). Better luck next time Sarah! It’s great to see our first Women’s world cup start.

Rick has contacted me to highlight the Ming Endurance event which will be held on May 15. It has been very well attended in the last few years . There are two courses to choose from and there is also the Ceilidh in the evening.  The endurance event is free with donations to British Nordic Development Squad. The Ceilidh is also in aid of BNDS, tickets from Rick.

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We will have made it to 100 snow cover days in the current season! Peter Thorn was wondering if we should do something to celebrate…

Here’s Colin Millers Snow report from March 20th

For the past few years I have wanted to do some mountain touring, I even bought myself some posh skis and boots, but never quite got out to actually use them until last week. Pete was good enough to organise a trip, there was snow and I had a pass out. I’ve often looked up at the Buck when I’m in the Clash car park and thought it would be great to ski up it. Now my opportunity had come. continue reading…

Here’s the Pete’s view of this Summer’s rollerski schedule.

Eileen Cosgrove says…

The British Nordic Development Squad will be collecting TESCO school and club vouchers again this year.
They have been available since the beginning of March.
Last year we collected about 30,000 and bought hurdles, shot putts and yoga mats with them. I’m not sure what is on Roy’s wish list this year.
Please leave vouchers at the ski centre or give them to Eileen

Here’s a link to the Norwegina Junior Championships website about Andrew Musgrave and his time in Norway to improve his skiing. He’s very complimentary about Huntly Nordic Ski Club. It’s in Norwegian but I’m told Google Translator does a good job. It’s got a good photo of Andrew at the bottom!

http://www.nmjr2010.no/index.php?f=08050124&sid=2&eid=620&id=10007&spid=268&mid=