Minneapolis SuperTour Day 1
The CXC team had an excellent time out at Theodore Wirth Park this morning at the 5/10K Freestyle SuperTour races. It was raining and sloppy all day, but that didn’t stop people from moving fast.
I was especially excited for today’s race because I love 5K races and I don’t get to do them as often now that I’m out of college. The Women’s race started at 9AM. Minutes before the first skiers went out on course, it started to pour. When I set my warm up jacket down on the snow, a puddle of water immediately formed in the middle. Fortunately, it did not pour all day, it mostly sprinkled and the courses held up as well as possible. The ups were mushy and the downs were sloppy making transitions extra important.
CXC Team Vertical Limit’s Rebecca Dusualt and I (Maria) took the top two places, followed by Aurelia Korthauer of UAF, Christina Gillis of NMU, and Melissa Schwartz (formerly Oram) one of NMU’s super star alumni. JoJo Winters of the CXC Team Vertical Limit was next in 6th place.
Women's Podium
The CXC Team Vertical Limit Men’s Team was able to do a 1, 2, 3 sweep of the podium with Matt Liebsch taking first place, followed by Brian Gregg and Bryan Cook. Bryan’s brother, Chris Cook of Steinbock Racing was just a few seconds off the podium, followed closely by Sylvan Ellefson of Fischer/SSCV Homegrown.
Men's Podium
Tomorrow we will be doing a mass start 10/15K classic race. Keep your fingers crossed that the weather cooperates.
Full results can be found at http://www.pttiming.com.
