4-peat opening weekend

It was clear Director Koziol wanted to make a statement as he sent his legions to work over the first major weekend of the 2013 NYSSRA series championship.  January 5th saw two races on the schedule (NYSEF Harry Eldridge Day 1, Glens Falls Freestyle) and in a risky move the Director  sent most of his crew to ski on home snow in Cole's Woods instead of Lake Placid, with the exception of two of HURT's finest LAYDZ, Emma Underwood and Ashley Forshey. There was no doubt who was claiming home turf as 23 athletes from HURT filled out the laundry list of skiers that were flying the infamous green and red in Cole's Woods.

Sunday saw the big green machine take their traveling nordic show to Lake Placid for the mass start classic races on the ladies 5K.  It was a great day again as Austin Huneck, Seth Mares, DPK, Chris Y, Tim Huneck, Brian Chrzan, David Burt, Emma Underwood and the Ducli all managed strong showings against a competitive field.

The HRT newsroom was on hand for much of the action (pictured below...at least we think it was HRT...I mean who else interviews ski racers? It certainly doesn't look like Nat Herz...)  But given the number of of HURT skiers on course at once the captured news footage looks like nothing more than a pile of christmas elves falling down an elevator shaft.  But we did get a few stills from the day that help tell the story...

Yarsevich leads out the Mens race

Halligan shows off some of his innovative skate technique that propelled him to the win the HS boys race.

Halligan tries to explain to the HRT newsroom just how hard it is to be so awesome.

The HURT train of pain

DPK...would someone please find him a razor? 

O'Brien shows some serious power coming home.