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• Maria Stuber 1:18 am on September 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  CXC Elite Vs. Sun Valley ODT 

  Yesterday, at the Lake Placid OTC, the Sun Valley Olympic Development Team challenged CXC Elite to a soccer match. We laced up our boots and hit the pitch at about five o’clock in the afternoon. Both teams had some amazing plays, but CXC managed to edge Sun Valley out with a 5-4 victory. The score was tied 3-3 at about half time. Play was back and forth for most of the second half, but Sun Valley struggled to maintain the same pressure that they had applied in the first half. Travis Jones tried his hardest to create an opening for Sun Valley late in the game, but his crosses were easily dealt with by CXC defenders, Gus Kaeding and Bryan Cook. Jo Jo Winters had several impressive shots on goal, however she usually fired just wide of the goal post. In the last minute of the game, Garrott Kuzzy capped a brilliant display of CXC’s swarm defense with a breakaway goal. Everyone on the field put forth their best effort and we look forward to a re-match next year.

  

  Gus Kaeding (red) under pressure.

  

  Brian Gregg (red) fights for the ball.

  

  Cross by CXC's Andre Watt (far right) about to be headed by Max from Sun Valley (far left)

  

  CXC's swarm defense attacking from the right (red).

  

  CXC's swarm defense attacking from the left (red).

  

  Andre Watt (red) setting up a shot.

   

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• jojowinters 10:52 pm on September 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  East Coast Road Trip 

  By Jojo Winters and Heather Zimmerman

  The CXC Elite Team has made its third annual pilgrimage out to Lake Placid, New York, for an East Coast training camp at the Olympic Training Center. Training is underway as the CXC Team joins other skiers from around the country in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. While most of the CXC Team drove out to New York from the Midwest, CXC athletes Heather Zimmerman and Jojo Winters made a special trek starting from New Hampshire’s campus town of Durham up to Lake Placid. With multiple maps in hand and snacks scattered about the car, the two set out along the winding mountain passes of New England. Once night fell and the scenery faded into darkness, it wasn’t long before the girls began singing along to outdated pop songs on the radio to keep themselves alert (note: both Jojo and Heather might have had successful careers in musical theater in another life). There were, of course, a few instances where they had to pull over to the side of the road to check the myriad of maps for accuracy.  And there were also mild occurrences of motion sickness due to the narrow, curving roadways, but all in all it was a relatively smooth ride to Lake Placid.

  Check back for more updates from the CXC Elite Team about training in Lake Placid!

  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  
   

• Brian Gregg 11:54 pm on September 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Lake Placid OTC 

  By Brian Gregg
  After a long drive on Sunday and Monday the team is now all at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid. This is my favorite camp of the year. Many of our workouts start from the training center, and down the hall is a full service dining room as well as an ice bath the size of a small pool. Work started today with 7*4min intervals up Keene Valley at 6-10mmol. This is one of the first interval sessions where there really hasn’t been a cap placed on how hard/fast we could go. Most of us were a bit over 10mmol but it felt good to really push it. Not to mention it was nice to legitimately need to V1.  The entire team is now here, although Watt just arrived after spending the night in the airport and taking a bus up this morning.

  

  Fish, giving us some technique feedback after the intervals

  

  Kuz in the ice bath

   

• gkuzzy 9:50 pm on September 20, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Birkie Trail Run 

  The Birkie Trail Run is fast becomming one of the “big” events in Hayward.  Looking at growth statistics, Dennis Kruse says that the Trail Run should be bigger that the Birkie in just a few short years.  If you’re going to try to win, you’ll have to get by two-time defending Champion Brian Gregg first.  Based on his improvement from last year to this year, look for Brian to break the Half-Marathon World Record about the time the Trail Run has more participants than the Birkie!

  Kristina Owen won the women’s 5km running race, while Salomon’s Kevin Johnson took the men’s 5km.  It was a beautiful day in Hayward, just starting to look like fall!

  I don’t want to take away from the Champion’s posts, up soon on: http://www.xcskilife.com and http://www.kristinaowen.com, but here are a few photos from the day.  Enjoy!

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  
   

• koskier 3:33 am on September 19, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Birkie Trail Work 

  Wednesday night trail work is pretty much THE social even of the week on the Hayward calendar. Every week, a group of sweet people get together to go over the trail with fine tooth comb. Seriously, i’ve seen gardens in waaaay worse condition than that trail. Golf courses, even. It all becomes worth it when we have a bad snow year again, and can still race on 5″ of snow.
  Unfortunately, we finished up the last of the new classic trail this week, so our weekly get to get-togethers are over for now. The classic trail goes all the way to OO now. In addition to making the classic race less crowded, it’s also another low snow year precaution. Generally, the north end of the trail gets just a little more snow than the south. If we have another year like 2 years ago (where they had just enough snow to hold the shortened race from telemark to OO) they’ll be able to send the entire race out the skate track and back on the classic, for a full marathon lenght. Pretty sweet, eh?
  Heather needs a Hayward boy! Unfortunately, this frog did not turn into him…
  

   

• gkuzzy 2:34 am on September 19, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Skiers take your mark. . . 

  Get ready for some great blogs from the CXC crew.

   

• Brian Gregg 7:48 pm on September 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Gregg’s First Post 

  Irena is setting the CXC Elite Team up with a blog.  The site should be up and running fully in the next few days.  The team is gathering at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid on Monday for a two week training camp.  This is one of the best training camps of the year.  Living at the OTC it is easy to focus on training and recovery.  There are lots of other skiers and clubs at the camp to train with not to mentiong excellent meal plans, great mattresses, ice baths and saunas.