Saturday morning arrived with lots of sunshine, deep fresh snow, and quickly warming temperatures at Mount Van Hoevenberg. This played havoc with the HURT Classical team.
Yarsevich was heard saying “I have 10 layers of 3 different types of wax, to try and get some kick on the varying hard cold tracks, sunny hills, and torn up powder. In the end all 3 waxes let me down, I might as well had skate skis on going up Harry’s Hill the first lap in full sunshine. Don’t even get me started with the Toko Wax Tip, HF Blue, give me a break it was like 20 degrees by 9am!”
Huneck just went with “lots of layers of VR40” and it “kind of worked, sometimes, if I really was careful and patient.” Not what you want for the non-stop climbing of the Loppet.
But the fun, pain, and misery was not only limited to the classic racers. Matt and Dave braved the 50K skate and after the first lap it looked like a bomb had gone off in the skate lane. The hills were literally 6” deep in some spots. Legs have never hurt so badly! After the race Kvam stated “all those soft track skate sessions at QHS really paid off, I mean who knew skating in 6” of powder was good Loppet training!” Matt was more to the point “It felt like someone was charley horsing my legs for the last 20k or so, ouch!”
All in all it was a good day and we could still smile at the end of it. It was also nice to ski a marathon event in temperatures above single digits. Tim Huneck was so delirious he was planning on racing the next day at Dewey Mt, this guy is nuts!
HURT Loppet Results:
25K Freestyle
Alec Davis, 1st M8
Carol Fisher, 1st M6
Heidi Underwood, 2nd M3
Sherry Dixon, 2nd M7
Richard Dixon, 10th M7
Chris Kvam, 10th M1
25K Classic
Roger Henry, 1st M8
Rene Clark, 3rd M8
Dave Burt, 4th M6
Roy Keats, 4th M7
50K Freestyle
Matt Torniainen, 2nd M2
Dave Kvam, 3rd Sr
50K Classic
Tim Huneck, 1st M5
Chris Yarsevich, 2nd M1
Matti Torniainen, 2nd M8
Tom Wolski, 4th M7
Next is the HURTATHON, Sunday February 13th, 10am Queensbury Schools.
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