Post Turkey Day Practice 11/29

Well it was nice to see a good turnout today at practice, even when it was 15 degrees and 20mph winds. We had good luck with starting at 4 and the light held out pretty well... Everyone is excited to get on snow. Hopefully the cold weather holds out and Spirit can make lots of snow.

Some people will be training with former teams up at the Ridge this weekend, so that will be good to get some folks in gates.

Pre-Turkey Day Practice

Thanks to everyone that was still in town and came to practice today. It wasn't too cold out and we had a nice little game. It was only 8 of us to start out, but we ended up with 14, which isn't a bad turnout, considering most of the people out there went home.

Hopefully it cools off soon and Spirit can make enough snow to get a few runs open!

Thurs 11/17 Practice

We had a great time at practice last night. It was a little colder than usual, but we still had a pretty good turnout. Not as good as Tuesday, but a lot of people emailed me with legitimate excuses.

Deathball was fun and we had the added element of danger, of the "Ice Section" where there was a mutual understanding that one did not go after anyone else, while in this zone. It worked out well and we did quite a lot of lunges, to make up for some of the other things that we cannot do, due to the unsure footing.

We also had our Canada meeting last night and we started getting things squared away. Hopefully we will have a good turnout this year again (last year we had about 28 people, even inspite of the fact that it was a 24 hour drive). This year it should only be about a 4-5 hour drive.

Snow!!!!

Well, the weather reports were way off on how much snow we would get, but we did get our first snow of the year and the ground is mostly white. It did come with a stiff wind and was undoubtedly a nice "how you doin" to those people spending their first winter in Duluth.

Hopefully Spirit has been able to start the snowguns as the temperature is hovering around 20 degrees today. Most likely they will push to have at least 1 run open for Thanksgiving weekend, but they will be focused on the snowcross until after that is done...

Spirit Race

Well, it is true, the Spirit race has been moved up this year and it will be the first race of the year for our Division. It will work out well for us though, as we will be getting back from Canada and won't have as far to travel that weekend.

It does put the Divisional race at Afton, which kind of sucks, because it's not as good of a hill, but what do you do.

The switch should be for this year only and we are already working on making sure that the schedule returns to normal for next year and future years to come.

Jan 7/8th @ Spirit Mt.

Yahoo for Rain!

Well the weather man said it was going to be 6 inches of snow, but of course they were way off and we had some nice rain. In spite of that, we also had about 25+ people at practice today, so that rocked.

We had a great game of deathball and it was a little hard to tell who won, because of darkness and the ground being so slick, but it was a great time anyway.

We cut the extra stuff a little short, due to the unstable nature of the ground, but we pounded out quite a few lunges and whatnot, to make it all worth while.

Thanks to all those that made it to practice tonight, see you all again on Thursday.

Practice on Thurs Nov-10

Had a little smaller turnout tonight than we usually have. We had a great game of deathball though and we finished off with some new fun and exciting ways to get some exercise. Kind of a modified version of the relay race that you used to do back in the 5th grade.

Anyway, hopefully we will have some more show up for practice next week. We are trying to get the registration stuff wrapped up and get clothing ordered, plus get our Canada trip figured out, so there is a lot going on!

Hopefully we can get some more pictures on this blog soon! Thanks to all that are reading this.

We also had a big buck contest going on with about 10 or so of the people on the team. No indication yet of who is winning, but I know that I will be out this weekend, trying to at least compete!

Practice on Tues Nov-8

We had a good turnout for Tuesday's practice, even though the weather was a little cooler (still way above normal though) and it was a little rainy. I think we had almost as many from the Women's team (or more) than the Men's team. Good job ladies!

I heard that practice went well on Thursday when I was gone in Iowa hunting. We did 2 full base sets on Tues practice and did some good "special" pushups.

It was also neat that we had a couple guys from the Nordic team show up and we are going to work with them to help them build up their program as well. Hopefully one of these years, we will be able to compete as a 4-way out at Nationals!

Stupid Time Change

Well, the time change has cut short our wonderful games of "deathball," so we have to focus on some more drills and things that can be done in lesser light.

We had an OK practice turn out tonight, at around 21, but there are a lot of faces that seem to be missing these days (and we KNOW you don't have class).

Anyway, thanks to all that made it. Jesse won the 4 corners drill today, just edging out the Doo, for top honors. We did about 105+ lunges and added some new drills as well.

We also got up to 4 pushups and did a lot of ab workout today.

I will be in IA hunting this weekend and will be gone for meetings on Thursday, so the next post will probably have to wait until next week, unless Big Bear gets me some pictures of our wonderful new Gate Box.

-AR