New Year, New Duds, New Series Lead

McCauley Mountain, Old Forge, was the destination for many of HURT's skiers this New Year's Day. In a brilliant strategic move Team Director Aaron lead his troops into battle on a day that say many of the states fastest pass up valuable NYSSRA points. Aaron said before the race:



"I was pouring over the last few years of race results and I noticed that this day is notorious for being passed up for things such as "pre-covery" and "post-covery" and "Metal Gods" and "FIS Tour de Skis". While these events may be worthy in their own right, FIS and other nordic organizations do not offer nearly as many NYSSRA points as Polar Bear Ski Club. It really was a pretty easy call to make."

Aaron himself jumped into the mix in dominating fashion but allowed his top 3 J2 studs, Brian Halligan, Adam Luban and Austin Huneck to make a sweep of the podium. Aaron follwed up by saying "Really...today was about confidence, the more of my boys I can get on the podium the better we'll be come February...besides I was still recovering from top spinning....health is #1."

With a relatively idle NYSEF and Peru squad the early math has HURT storming into the NYSSRA points lead to start the New Year. This was helped by a strong showing by Dave Kvam, Andy Farry, MDH, Jim South, Ed Luban and Tim Huneck. Most of the guys laid down some of their best 10K performances of the early NYSSRA season but there was some controversy as too how much speed was due to un-regulated speed suits from Podium Wear. The post race testing went on and on as race officials took sample fibers, surface rubbings and ink samples.

When asked about it after the race father Huneck said "I dunno what these guys are looking for, My thighs have looked that good in bright colored spandex for decades....check yourself...here's my wife's cell number...."



Check out the newest installment of HURT Television and stay tuned for results and updates as the guys move on to a classic showdown in Tupper Lake. They expect a deep field and stiff competition and the peru boys should be out for revenge.