This Saturday brought a suspenseful day of sprinting at the World Junior Trials in Thunder Bay. Black Jack’s colors lead the pack in every heat in the Junior Men as Julien surged through to the finals. In the A-Final Julien came through to finish in fourth place. A good day, but not quite enough to […]
A small contingent of the Black Jack racing squad is currently competing in Thunder Bay at the World Junior Trials. Thursday was the Junior Men’s 20km Pursuit. In what began as a tight race on a twisty, congested classic course, David lead the charge throughout the skate portion to finish 5th, only seconds out of […]
The team is breaking into the season with some hard races and several outstanding performances. Daniel Merlo, an up and coming star, had an excellent race in the Juvenile Boys 4km category. We are looking forward to some exciting racing in the next few weeks after some hard training and good rest. Junior Men – […]
Team Black Jack started off the race season today with the Haywood NorAm Teck Sprints in Canmore Alberta. Overall, besides a lost binding for Peter, the team had a good day of racing. For the younger racers: Robyn and Daniel, the races consisted of a medium distance mass start as part of the Alberta Cup. […]
In conjunction with the BC Team/Development Squad early season camp, Team Black Jack spent five days at Silver Star for another productive camp of on-snow training. 4 hours / day of skiing at Sovereign Lakes with a time trial on Saturday. Black Jack led the way in the 3.75km, 7.5km, and 11.25km races. Check out […]
For nearly a week, Team Black Jack has been training on-snow in excellent conditions. Just ten minutes from Rossland, BC, the Black Jack Biathlon area has had a surplus of snow, and the grooming crew has been hard at it. With approx. 4km of rolling terrain, set for both classic and skate, it’s likely that […]
For the third year running, Team Black Jack travelled over to Canmore Alberta for Frozen Thunder. Despite being the second week of October, the Canmore Nordic Centre provided 2km of nearly winter-esque skiing. Joined by Holly Burn and Telemark Ski Teams, Black Jack had a great week of training. Many thanks so Dave Wood, Bob […]
Yesterday three Blackjack skiers competed in the local high school running race, the Kootenay Kramp. The course, as described by LVR running coach Graema Marshall was “Gut busting and calf crushing hills, quad pounding paths, and mind testing tenacity!”. The senior course was aprox. 6.5km long with 300m elevation gain. The results can be viewed […]
After a summer of differing schedules and various programs, Team Black Jack came together mid August for a week of high altitude training at the Haig Glacier. With volume and on-snow technical work as the team’s main focus, the Haig delivered a perfect training location and everything went according to plan. The daily schedule ranged […]
Thank you to everyone who made this year possible and who believed in what I was doing. To my parents who have supported me financially, and taught me to love the mountains and skiing. To Dave and Tammie Gibson, and Bernie Hoffman and Karen Lavender, and their kids, who treated me like family and made […]
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