On Friday, Chloe and I arrived at the Snyder house in Fairfax for the night, in order to beat the impending storm that would be arriving in the night before the first sprint. In the morning, the three of us (Julia included) drove up to the venue to meet Molly, and Ryan who came up with his home club.
Upon arrival, the place was packed, with almost 400 racers signed up for the days event.
As it got closer to the start time, it began to warm up, creating an interesting race surface: not firm, but not quite slush. My race went okay, coming in 91st in a group of stiff competition, about 25 seconds off of the leader. Behind me was Ryan in 102nd, about 4 seconds behind.
For the women’s race, Chloe and Julia fared about the same as Ryan and I, coming in 90th and 87th respectively. The track had softened up a lot by their race, and it had begun to rain a little.
By the time the Fairfax crew left (around 12:30, as nobody had qualified for the heats), it was raining even harder, and by the time the heats started (about the time we returned home) it was pouring. Maybe it was a good thing that none of us made the heats…
It looks like we all will need a little more sprint training by the time the UNH Carnival rolls around, starting off with a classic sprint.
That night, Catie and Silke came over for dinner and for a place to stay. The next morning, we woke up with three things:
1). A phone call from Molly.
2). No power.
and 3). About a half inch of ice over all of our cars.
Molly had called the house, saying that due to the weather and the horrid driving conditions, that she would not be attending the mornings classic race. This was right before the power went out. Right after this happened, we received word from NENSA that the days event would be cancelled, as to not put the 250+ registrants at risk on the icy roads.
And with that excitement, we spent the next while either indoors in the dark, or outdoors scraping ice off of vehicles. When Silke and I left at 11:30, the Snyders still had no power.
The next race opportunity we have as a team will be the Santa's Revenge skate at Sleepy Hollow on the 28th. See you there!
-Torin.
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