[Alain Parent]

Hello Team, good training session today! I hope you are pumped to race hard on Saturday…

Canmore Nordic is still hanging on to second place in the overall club standings. Yahoo. You an also find the category aggregate standings on the Nationals website.

A reminder to pick up your banquet ticket at the race office. The banquet starts at 6pm, with the aggregate awards at 6:15pm, followed by dinner and a dance. Semi formal attire (no jeans).

Note the change in start times for the juvenile boys and later starter. The start list is not accurate yet.

Weather:
-6 tonight and perhaps some new snow tomorrow and a high of +1. Make sure you bring some clear lens glasses of a visor. More weather details here: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-3_metric_e.html

Stadium:
Standard stadium set up. 5 lanes at the starts seeded by the recent CCC pts.

Courses:
7.5 & 10.0km courses as we skied them today. Notice that all the climbing on the 7.5km courses is during the first 4km. You need to go hard on barf hill!

Start times:
8:30 open men
8:40 junior men
11:10 open women
11:20 junior women
12:30 juvenile boys -> updated start time
1:15 junior boys -> updated start time
2:05 junior girls -> updated start time
2:10 juvenile girls -> updated start time

Start list here (not updated as of 8:30pm): http://zone4.ca/results.asp?ID=3860&cat=all&pt=1

Awards at about 1pm for the 10km courses and about 3pm for the 7.5km categries (on site)

See the course/stadium maps on our website if you are not sure.

Arrive the team room 1.0hr before your start. Check in with a coach and grab your bib and transponders. We will ask you to hang out in the daylodge or BWTC.

OTHER:
Check your Training Peaks for details about Saturday. You will find various recommendations such as warm up, race strategy and what to do after the race.

Again, chocolate milk or sport drink are the best things to have right after your race. You need to recover for the dance!

This is the last posting for the 2011 Nationals. A BIG THANK YOU TO RODDY, KATHY, ROY, MIKE, CHRISTINE, MICHEL, RHONDA AND JUDY FOR THEIR INCREDIBLE WORK DURING THIS WEEK.

Also a big two thumbs up to GREG and ANDREW and their crews for their fabulous organization of the event.

What a week!

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