ELOAD MARATHON: NorAm World Junior/U23/ World Senior Sprint Trials Ontario Cup #1
By:  Peter Beisel   (2013/01/04)

      XC Ottawa has been busy this week preparing for, and racing in the Haywood NorAm World Junior/U23/Senior Sprint Trials at Lappe Nordic in Thunder Bay. Lappe Nordic has worked hard to ensure excellent ski conditions and the race organization has been very good. We are quite pleased with Thursday's results and look forward to the classic sprints on Saturday and the medium distance free technique on Sunday.

Here is what happened on Thursday:

Senior Women:

1		Emily Nishikawa					Whitehorse		0:45:30.5
2		Alana Thomas					Nakkertok-ON		0:45:39.7	+9.1
3		Zoe Roy					Rocky Mountain		0:45:44.9	+14.4

Senior Men:

1		Graham Nishikawa					Whitehorse		1:15:51.9
2		Kevin Sandau					Foothills		1:15:55.6	+3.7
3		Graeme Killick					Ptarmigan		1:15:55.7	+3.7

For further event details see: http://skinoram2013.com/index.html
and for race results see: http://new.zone4.ca

A big shout out to ELOAD/EMEND for supplying the much needed feeds for this serious 30km haul! Nothing helps you get up a hill faster than someone waving an eload feed from the top!

The glide wax of the day from XC Ottawa was a base layer of VAUHTI HF MOLYBDENUM followed by Vauhti gold fox topper and a Vauhti  HFC21 gel on the very top. The grip was Vauhti K18 (orange) covered with Vauhti fluor green...  Rocket fast!!!!




Thats all for now,
thanks for reading and stay tuned for the upcoming races!

-Peter