With a huge effort on Saturday by many of the HURT faithful (including Yarsevich, Farry, MDH, T. Huneck, A. Huneck, Burt, Kvam, Clark, Tornianen, R. Yarsevich, Underwood) shoveling snow onto a hard-packed-icy-pine-coned loop in Queensbury, Team HURT pulled off the SINGLE MOST SUCCESSFUL NORDIC SKI EVENT in Warren County, NY in the last three days. While the original plan for the Tri-HURT-athon featured a pursuit format the revised duathalon format featured all of the desired drama.
With just 4 seconds separating the fastest 1.2K classic sprint time from the rest of the chase pack Martin Donnelly-Heg found his slim lead quickly swallowed up by the fast skating Seyse of Glenville. Despite racing 3,454 times this season, Seyse quickly formed a gap that he would hold over the course of the 11.5K loop.
Team HURT, as expected, came out in force and strong performances were put down in all the age classes. Their collective team effort has solidified a runaway in the 2009-10 NYSSRA Team competition. The performance of the day went to Austin Huneck, who despite a poor sprint effort threw down a "Billy Demong-esque" effort in the skate race to claw his way back into a 4th place finish, 2nd on team HURT. When interviewed after the race he said: "I really felt like I has something special today, I don't know if it was inspired by team USA or just that my skis seem to glide best on pine-tar and sugar snow...whatever it was, I plan on bringing more of that into Championships."
Kvam, who again sat on the sidelines and watched his teammates shoulder the workload, was asked to comment on what he saw from his team. "Well, let me tell you...with MDH's sprint, Huneck's unbelievable comeback effort, and the dominating performance in the Bill Koch race by the Team Director, whosever job it is to plan the NYSSRA relay teams is going to have a tough go of it. I mean geesh...If I don't comeback like a champ at Empires...I may be bumped to the 3rd squad.....I tell ya....we are deep!"
The MVP of the day goes to the combined effort of Rachel Yarsevich who's organizational skills and baking/cooking prowess provided the racers with cookies, hermit bars and amazing chili. Not to mention her team effort with K.P. who ensured split second accuracy in race timing. THANK YOU!!!
Full Results here
Stay tuned as the HURT season winds down with Empires and NYSSRA champs.
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