It's a lame time of the season. So lame, in fact, that it feels about as lousy as that one time when you were 6, playing on the beach, building the best sand castle of all eternity. Then, your big sister came over and gave your sand castle, complete with moat and numerous drippy-castle turrets, the boot. Darn thing exploded faster than an over inflated swim Floaty.
Such is the feeling of every young XC racer and jumper in late March. One moment you're on top of your form, skimming over the frozen slush during paintball biathlon and plunking rides past K and the next, you're lazing around the house searching frantically for hobbies that are even as remotely cool as ski jumping. Thanks a bunch, spring weather!
Okay, philosophical rambles over. The 2010 NYSEF NORDIC KIDS FESTIVAL was a complete success. With total cooperation from Mother Nature and the awesome ORDA staff, we managed to have a fantastic season send-off competition. Congratulations to all the awesome competitors, and a hats off to the super volunteers. The weekend saw some top-notch racing with the 7,284 different disciplines, and everyone was impressed with the great level of skiing.
If you're searching, results for the XC mass start, sprints and paint-bizzle biathlon can be found here: http://nysef.org/nysefXcRace.html
Here are complete results for Nordic Combined, K6 and K18. Yahoo!
We're still searching for some scorching pics from this weekend's extravaganza on the jump hill, but to wet your whistle, here are some awesome pics courtesy of Jen Ledger, from February's Empire State Games festivus:
A packed K18 Flugschanze.
NYSEF's own Landon Liveri, gracing the very bottom of the K18 Flugschanze with his presence. Landon swept the J5 boys class & the Nordic Combined this past weekend... way to go Landon!
Don't worry, the SJ and NC fun won't be stopped for long. We'll have dates set for our world renowned NYSEF GRASSHOPPER CAMPS after Saturday's Eastern Ski Jumping meeting, so stay tuned. Complete information can be found below on our brochure.
On behalf of all the NYSEF staff, thanks for making the 09/10 jumping season our best one yet. At last count, we had over 78 youngsters take their first jumps on the K18 Flugschanze since December 1st. In the meantime, keep those tips up!
Dave McCahill, Evan Bliss & Casey Colby
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