Fall Rollerski Racing and More

 So much good stuff going on these past few weeks - here's a recap:

- First rollerski time trial of the year - a quick 6.5k skate at one of our favorite venues, Ridge Rd in Bowdoinham. Sawyer and Gillian took decisive wins with the others tightly packed behind them. Looking like we have a deep crew this year - still early, but from what I've see so far we could have a lot of different people scoring from week to week. That's a good thing!

- We brought back the Halloween candy elimination bracket after a four-year hiatus. Different bracket, same outcome - Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for the win. Valiant effort by Sour Patch Kids and Snickers, though.

- Remarkable skills on display for pumpkin carving - elite work by all four classes. Seniors won for their impressive re-creation of an incident where an angry woman yelled at them for rollerskiing in her neighborhood.

- Family Weekend brought lots of folks to our beach skiing workout at Morse Mountain - it's become a bit of a tradition to share this workout with our visitors on Family Weekend. The seniors hosted a nice gathering afterward - always a pleasure to get to know the ski team families a bit better!

- Daylight Savings is over and it's dark season. For our Tuesday hill workout last week we did intervals at the big sand pile at the Fitzgerald Preserve - a Bowdoin Nordic classic. Our flashing vests added some zing to the workout - from a distance it was a bit eerie and also very cool to see a line of colorful bursts floating up the hillside. Got to get creative at this time of year, and a giant pile of sand is as good a place as any to do hill repeats in the dark.

- The Good Times Roll was yesterday - a 10k skate rollerski race hosted by Nonstop Nordic right here in Brunswick. Despite the cold wet weather a good crowd of Maine skiers showed up, including Bates and Colby. Hana and Beckett led our team - full results here (although they're a bit messed up a the moment). This was a good hard effort and a great chance to test ourselves against some fellow EISA skiers - looking forward to the real thing soon enough. Many thanks to Nonstop Nordic and their army of volunteers for putting on a great event!