Week 29 easy building week. Its Snowinggg!!!!!!!! Yee Haaa what we have been training for is finally here. If the weather holds we will be snow skiing on Tuesday so get out your rock skis and make sure that they are in working order. It will be so good. Remember that rock skis are skis that are old, cheap and bright colours, skis that you would ski over rocks on. Do not bring out skis that are good in anyway as they will get destroyed which is sad because you will have to spend more money on new skis. If you do not have rock skis let me know. While the snow is thin bring your poles with roller ski tips as you will be going down to the pavement and need the sharp hard surface of the roller ski tip to get grip. If you only have skate rock skis then bring them and we will put classic wax and create a grip pocket. When the snow is really thin skate skiing is hard to do as you push away the snow right down to the pavement. Now that the snow is here we will slow down on intervals for a while so that we can get our snow ski legs underneath us. We will be doing long distance skis focussing on technique and legs only and arms only. Roller skiing is different from snow skiing so we need some time to adapt our technique to the snow and getting a nice flat ski and good kick in classic. While the snow is thin it is best to classic ski as you do not push done to the pavement we will start skate skiing when the snow is thick enough. Raffle Update Make sure that you are getting you tickets sold and returned to Fionna, you an return them to me or directly to Fionna Fahey. Here is little more information on the raffle prize. The winner of the raffle will receive a voucher for a 2 night stay for two people at the Trigonelle B&B. Breakfast and taxes are included. It is redeemable anytime up until October 15th, 2015. Marc and Lise have stayed there and got us the prize so if you need more information they can give it to you. You can also go to the website: It is in St. Jovite right along the petit train du nord. It is time to get your cross Country Canada Racing license. This license is very important for cross country skiers, in categories juvenile and up for both Quebec and Ontario athletes, biathletes you do not need this. This license allows you to collect CPL points, this is how athletes are ranked in Canada and it is connected to the Federation International de Ski (FIS) point list which is the international point list. Once you have your license and you have points on the list you can see how you rank with athletes in Canada and internationally. It is interesting and mandatory for your development as an athlete. You get points based on how you finish in races that are provincially (Quebec Cup or Ontario Cup), Nationally (Easterns, Nationals) or FIS sanctioned (Ripton, Craftsbury).
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