Senior National Pictures

While I have a computer with my pictures, some battery power, and a fast internet connection I figured I would post some of my best pictures from Senior Nationals.

10k Skate

Ryan heading up the first major climb of the 10k skate.

Ryan getting some splits from Trond and Jane.

Karl with his game face on.


15k Classic (Pictures by Karl)

Brent, looking strong.

Bart. For some reason I think he is hurting.

Tyson. This must have been a painful race or something.

Here I am somewhere in the classic race.

Trond, giving splits in the classic race.


Skate Sprint

Chris Cook, US Ski Team, leading the Flying V.

Tyson, in the blue, in his quarter final. The heats were very close.

The men's sprint final. Very tight!

A very determined Laura, way ahead of the rest of the pack.


Team Classic Sprint

Its Joe Dirt! No, wait, its only Brian.

Andy Newell must have some fast skis.

Torin Koos, US Ski Team, so far ahead no one else is in focus!

Reese on his way to Junior Worlds.

Zach with his game face on.

Brent sticking it to the competition

Max tearing up the nanooks.

Tyson smiling where everyone else was grimacing. He must know something we don't.

Winter Stars, Eric and Tyler, hanging with the big guns.

Mark. Done...finally.

Senior Nationals

Its been a little while. I've been having some computer issues lately. Hopefully I will get it figured out in the next day or so.

Anyways, Houghton has been great. We have been getting dumped on. Its been much better here than last year. Last year they had just enough snow to host the races, this year we almost have too much. Most of the team has been staying in the Ramada in Hancock, just across the isle from Houghton. We also have access to a team mate's friend's house just up to the hill to cook meals and wax. We originally planned on staying there, but there is a lot of cat hair all over the house and a few team mates have cat allergies so a bunch of us moved down to the Ramada to sleep and hang out. There was so much cat hair floating about up there that I learned that I have a mild cat allergy. I never really noticed it at home, but after spending a night up there I had a really scratchy throat and couldn't keep from coughing.

The distance races have been alright. I felt pretty good in my skate race. I definitely left it all out on the course. The classic race was pretty rough. My plan was to take it out easy and pick it up the second lap so I could have even splits. I couldn't seem to get going though. It was almost like I was in slow motion. There is still the skate sprint this Saturday. You can check out results at itiming.com.

Sunday we take off for our collegiate races at Soldier Hollow, Utah and Winter Park, Colorado. I'll get pictures up as soon as I can get my computer running. Karl and I were able to get some really good pictures of the whole Alaska crew.