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J345 1-29-12 Race Announcement

Ok Gang,

Here we go looking forward to Week Eight already. We had a fantastic week of training and racing at Berkshire East and Bousquet, where our kids continued to race hard and have a lot of fun, while garnering numerous podium spots. It been so much fun to watch the improvement and enthusiasm across the board. It seems that every week there are a several racers whose hard work pays off as they finally have a breakthrough and take their skiing to new levels. We coachers constantly marvel at how wonderful it is to see that happen time and time again. The key is to keep trying and never, ever give up. Sooner or later the hard work will pay off with big rewards.

The fun continues this weekend, as we host the Tri-State Western Mass 3-4-5 Qualifier on Sunday. This is the first of three Tri-State races that we will be hosting, as we will also host the Tristate 1-2′s race on Superbowl Sunday February 5 and the J3 Tri-State Championships on Sunday, February12. Please keep in mind that it takes a lot of people to successfully pull off a race, we can only run these events through the efforts of all of the parents serving as volunteers. Like most programs, ours has a mandatory volunteer policy, that requires each parent to volunteer to work at least one race per year. Please be sure that each one of you fulfills this obligation.

Training plans for Week Eight are as follows:

Interclub: Saturday, GS on Ace, providing that there is enough snow and fencing, otherwise SL on Ace
Sunday, Brushes in the morning on Grand Slam, free skiing in afternoon

TS J3-4-5 Saturday, we will try to load early at 8:00 to ski directed free runs on Whirlaway in the am and GS training on Exhibition to test out the timing and prepare on the hill for the Western Mass qualifier the next day
Sunday, Western Mass qualifier race
TS J1-2 Wachusetts GS on Saturday
SL training on Ace on Sunday

That’s it for now. See you all soon.
Bruce