Alpha Race Camps - Castleford Snozone

Alpha Race Camps are running a 3 day indoor snow slope training camp at Xscape Snozone, Castleford 16th - 18th August 2010. Brief info about the camp is: Dates: 16th - 18th August (Mon, Tues, Weds) 10am - 4pm each day Coaches: Jo Ryding, Benn Hall & Dave Tee Cost: £225.00 for 3 days (Slope & coaching fees) If you are interested, here are the contact details. Alpha Race Camps 07729 091077 gillianmhall@hotmail.com bennhall45@hotmail.com

Snowsport South Race Saturday the 29th May

Please remember that if you want to take part in the Snowsport South race on Saturday the 24th May entries will close this Wednesday evening. If you have any problems registering please let me know but if you miss the deadline we may not be able to sort anything out for this race.

 

Norfolk Grand Prix Weekend 1st and 2nd May

Norfolk Club National

For the first race report catch up we have to go all the way back to the first weekend in May when a small number of club members took the opportunity to race at the Norwich slope in advance of September's All England championships. The two best Aldershot performances came in the Children 2 category where both races were won by Aldershot racers, Hannah Bosier in the female race and James Sieber in the males race.

Norfolk Grand Prix

The next day an even smaller number of Aldershot racers competed in the Grand Prix. This time it was Bella Hathway who upheld club honours by finishing second in the female children 2 race.

LSERSA Race 2 - Bowles

It is very rare that a race comes up at a slope that no-one from the club has skiied at before let alone raced at and this was the case last Sunday when the Bowles club played host to the 2nd race in the LSERSA summer series. The slope is small but is in a lovely setting and overall the event went really well. The number of racers was disappointing but on the other hand with the very small area at the top of the slope it was probably not too bad a thing. The Aldershot racers faired very well in both the individual slalom and in the team races. We were particularly successful in the first 4 girls groups. In 1F Sarah Woodward won the silver medal and in the 2F group Alicj Krahelski also won the silver medal with Katie Standen winning the bronze medal. In the next group Lucy Woodward won the gold medal and it was the same result for Jenny  Davies in the 4F group. The boys also delivered the goods with Euan Chapman winning the silver medal in the 3M group, James Sieber winning the large 4M group and Peter Davies winning the silver medal in the 5M group. Moving up the age groups Avelline Deighton won the silver medal in the 8F group and there were further successes in the 9M group. Now dubbed the supervets - a reference to ability rather than age - the lead in the race swapped several times before Graham Nayler secured victory with a storming third run.

 

Onto the team races and there were more successes for the Aldershot racers. The Aldershot club team of Peter Davies, James Sieber, Euan Chapman, Graham Nayler and Hannah Bozier finished third in their competition. In the fun team event Brian Davies' team finished third, Ben Militec's team finished second and Jenny Davies' team finished third.

 

Arrangements for Sunday Training

Firstly, my apologies for the recent lack of communication from me and especially the lack of newsletters – I hope to address the latter at the weekend. For now though I need to let you all know that as of this Sunday we will be joining the two groups together for the rest of the summer and running just one session. This session will run from 08:00 to 10:00 although please bear in mind that we actually have the slope from 07:45 so there is the opportunity for those who want to warm up properly to do so.

Looking at the race calendar, nearly every Sunday from now until July there is a race which is likely to take a large number of one of the groups away from training. Through July and August we will see reduced attendances due to holidays etc and then in September we will again have races most Sundays including 1 at Aldershot and 1 morning after the day before following the Snowsport South end of series party. This all means that for the majority of sessions between now and October we will be able to significantly reduce our outgoings without major compromise of training quality hence the decision to go to one session. As ever, if any of you have any questions please feel free to email me or catch me at training.

Race Entries for The Coming Weekend

Dont forget the entries for the LSERSA race at Welwyn this Saturday and the Snowsport South race at Aldershot this Sunday close on Wednesday. If you have any problems entering either race please let me know.