Updates! - Dual meet with Scholastica

The first weekend back from West Yellowstone we drove up to Duluth Marshall High School to race against St. Scholastica in a dual meet. "Cold" would be a major understatement when describing conditions.  Duluth had just gotten dumped with fresh powder, and when we began the race it was slightly under balmy zero degrees Farenheit. You could say it was a bit frigid.

Anyway, we raced our first skate distance races of the year, women skied a 5k and men skied a 10k. Although the snow was slow, it was a great chance to get our racing legs back and find out what needs to be done on race mornings to be successful. We had a great time with the Scholastica team and were grateful they could host us for the day.

Paige Schember won the women's race with a time of 15:47.1, and Nora Gilbertson was the next Ole in 9th place.  Kelsey Cork took 12th.  On the men's side, Jake Brown was the top Ole, placing in 4th with an overall time of 27:59.9.  Joel Bransky was 8th, Liam John placed 10th, and Evan Kendall and Cole Hendrickson were 14th and 15th respectively.  

Dual Meet Results

After some extensive thawing out of feet and hands, we headed home to prepare for our next weekend in Wausau, Wisconsin and start studying for our favorite time of the year... finals.

BRRRR
Gorgeous but crispy cold view of Lake Superior
Paige, Nora and Kelsey sporting the new t-shirts
Alumna Sophie came to cheer for us!

Evan's way of staying warm
Kelsey Cork racing

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