On Saturday, 3 August, I raced the App Gap Challenge, a 7.25 kilometer roller ski race in Fayston, VT. Starting near German Flats Road on Vermont Route 17, the race goes westward, finishing on top of Appalachian Gap. You know it’s steep when there are signs advising danger to trucks […]
Read More →Sunday was the tenth anniversary of the Climb to the Castle (C2C), the forbidding roller ski race up the Whiteface Mountain toll road in Wilmington, NY. It wasn’t my worst race, but it was far from my best. Those who can’t ski fast, write about those who do. [N.B. This […]
Read More →Adirondack summer vacation. If there are no black flies, does it still count as summer? In August, my family returned to Lake Placid. A different kind of vacation, where I went out on dawn patrol most mornings so we could do family stuff together later on. On Thursday morning, I doubled […]
Read More →You’ll have to plan your training the week before Thanksgiving a little differently: The Kingston roller ski races in Kingston, NY have been cancelled for this year. In a brief email, organizer Greg Malia wrote, “due to a number of things beyond my control, after 11 consecutive years, the Kingston Roller […]
Read More →So here it is,better late than never: the fall roller ski race schedule in the northeast! Sufferfest, Prospect Mountain, Lake George NY. 2 November, 11 AM start. Uphill race, five miles, not quite as steep as Whiteface. Self-seeded and self-timed. No sag wagons and no shelter at the finish. Be […]
Read More →Liz Stephen and Tim Burke repeated their 2013 performances, winning Saturday’s Climb to the Castle. OK, you know about that. The weather looked sketchy: 60% chance of showers in the morning, and thunderstorms in the afternoon. I brought the [slow] rubber wheels with me, but decided to chance it running […]
Read More →Two weeks ago, Rockaway Township finished paving a critical section of Lake Denmark Road. Smooth, fast new asphalt replaced the section near the picnic area that had turned into a minefield. I got the county into a Twitter conversation about paving their section of the road, but don’t hold your […]
Read More →This year, I showed up at the Kingston Roller Ski races with fully doped roller skis. Bought the inline skate wheels, might as well use them. The Wings of Skitan been great at the Climb to the Castle and the Prospect Sufferfest. But the Kingston race loop is a whole different […]
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