28th September 2013 – Snowsports England British Indoor Championships @ Chill Factore Manchester

Early start (5:00am) to travel up to Manchester this morning, and enjoyed having my gluten free cornflakes at 80mph ! whilst surrounded by my duvet ! Breakfast in Bed I called it.

The SnowSport England race today is the last SnowSport Indoor Race of the 2013 series.

SSE races for U10’s are around stubbies and the fastest of the two runs.

Run 1 I went for it and missed a gate on the tight section.

Run 2, after learning where I went wrong in Run 1 I approached the run in a more calculated way and nailed a winning time of 16.02 seconds, with Kayne running into 2nd Place with a Run 2 time of 16.80, and Lucas from Lions in 3rd with a time of 16.99 seconds.

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Racer-Ready Magazine Report link is here

23rd September 2013 – BISS Indoor Championships at Hemel

The Grove entered is first major competition, the British Independent Schools Ski Racing Championship (BISS) held at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead.  The U10, U12 and U14 categories attracted over 120 competitors representing schools from the South Coast to Colwyn Bay.

For three of The Grove team members, Michael Eddelston, Daniel Camish and Charlotte Ingram, representing the U12’s, this was their first experience of major slalom competition.  Charlotte overcame nerves following a fall on her first run to record a very respectable 18.95 sec time on her second run, whilst Daniel demonstrated great consistency with his first and second recorded times.  Michael defied convention improving his second run time by 0.58 sec.

I came 1st in the U10’s Boys with runs of 12.86 and 13.06 seconds, and an amazing 9th overall in the competition, which was dominated by U14’s ! (his time was on 0.39 seconds from a first place).

The Grove came a very respectable Joint 11th (with Bedford Modern) out of 25 Pre-Prep and Junior Prep Schools.

Emily Sarsfield, British No. 1 Ski Cross, presented the awards.  Good luck Emily, one of our Sochi hopefuls !DSCF1096

http://www.emilysarsfield.com/emilyskicross/home.html

Well done to the whole team, keep up the great work !

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BISS results now posted on their website

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Under 10’s Ranking below.

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Overall Mens Result (Under 14, Under 12 and Under 10) below.

 

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Schools Ranking below.

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Zac and Daniel on Course inspection.

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Charlotte, Michael and Daniel after their first run !

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23rd June 2013 Hemel Club National Result

Great two runs on the Slalom at today’s Hemel Club National and giving me 1st Place in the Under 10’s.  Today’s time, if placed in the Under 12’s would have given me a combined 6th Place which is great for next year.

Well done to all the other Ski MK Race Team racers today, Kayne (2nd Under 10’s), Riley and Glesni (2nd and 3rd Under 12’s Girls), Ella and Bethany (1st and 3rd Under 18’s Girls), Heather (1st Masters Ladies), Daniel and Robert (1st and 2nd Under 16’s Boys) – so great day for SMK !

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P1250638 P1250639 P1250640Receiving trophies from GBR Racer, Ed Drake (similar hair must make us both go fast !)

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Waiting results of Giant Slalom for Under 10’s, so will update as soon as they are issued.

Pictures below are from Run 2 of the ERSA Giant Slalom, and that blur is me !

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Had two great combined skis runs this morning – just having some food and a break in prep for the Giant Slalom

16th June 2013 Scottish Indoor Champs at Braehead

Won the Scottish Indoor Championships Under 10’s with a stonking 2nd run of 15.94 seconds, which also gave me an amazing 9th in the under 12’s !!

http://www.snowsportscotland.org/news/show/189

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Course Inspection at Snow Factor, Braehead earlier today !

Early Sunday start again at snow factor at Braehead.

Larger field of Under 10’s today than yesterday. Bib 47 Today

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Result – ERSA SMK “Team Evolution” Summer League Race

Finished Slalom with a good 2nd place with narrow miss of 0.41 seconds from 1st. On Giant Slalom fell on first run, but recorded a good second run and got a 2nd place again with a 0.13 second from Kayne who finished first.

Great SMK results today, Kayne and others.

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Giant Slalom results, finished 44th in Male but 2nd in Under 10’s

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Full results available on

Slalom http://www.ersa.co.uk/sites/default/files/racing/results/2013/2013_27_indresults.pdf

GS Slalom http://www.ersa.co.uk/sites/default/files/racing/results/2013/2013_27_12.pdf

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Also amazing to watch Ed and Paul Telling race today ! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152858693445357&set=a.10152858650585357.1073741834.644220356&type=3&theater

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