Friday night pursuit
Temp: 3-10'
Snow: Mostly manmade tilled powder, with some areas of the course having some tilled in ice.
Wax: Toko Base green ironed in the day before, with a second layer corked in on rae day. The results from the race were great. This wax was able to climb all of the terrain on the course, some schools opted to cover the base green with a hard wax. Which gave them a little better glide. I feel this was a slight advantage at the start of the race, as we may have been only slightly slower. Following the start we were able to outclimb many schools, and passing on the downhills, due to the number of racers was not likely and may have only enhanced the likely hood af a crash. This was the wax of the night in my opinion.
Jackson 30k
Temp: 5- 12'
Snow: Natural old tilled powder
Wax: Toko Base green ironed in the day before, covered with Damian's convented Swix VR 30. The Swix rep had tested VR 30 and went for somthing faster. The ski's worked well today, producing a woman's championship, and placed 2 of our men in the top 3, behind only Kris Freeman. The Swix skiers, had gambled with fast ski's and placed there top male in 13th. I skied with the top woman for some of the race, outclimbing her, and passing her as she rewaxed. Her ski's were slightly faster than mine. Thier gamble may have paid off in a 5k, but not in a 30k.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Middlebury HS race problems
Temp- 10-20' F
Today conditions were an ice base with 1-3 inches of old powder tilled into a light amount of tilled granular.
the overnight temps were in the single ditgits with the test temp around 10' and it warmed to around 20' upon departure.
This was a high school race. On both ski's I tested Toko spray on green klister, and then covered one with swix green, the other with Rhode Multigrade Blue. Both kicked well, so I went with Rhode with the wider range for the race wax. This is what the Boys team raced on, with the exeption of one racer we struggled against most of the other team's as far as kick went and I did not noitice a dramatic advantage in glide as a spectator. The Girls team applied Swix Blue under foot, and with an exeption or two they had smilairly poor results like the boys. For the JV race I had them apply extra Blue and torched it in as I noticed the Varsity ski's with little exeption had lost nearly all of there kick wax and were down to base green Klister binder. This worked a little better, and we had some skiers do quite well, but it was still not the best wax in the race by far. I talked to the team, who I had felt had the best ski's in the race. They used Skare Blue Klister made By Rhode as there binder,a softer klister than what we were on, likely applied thicker than the spray on waxes, they then covered with Rhode Super Blue for the advanced kids and Rhode Multigrade for the more Novice races. Both being much softer and well above the race temperature race waxes we used.
Had I had more time to test, and talked to the other coach sooner, I would have liked to try a Klister warmer than what they had used, covered with a colder hard wax on top, as mentioned earlier this winter at a swix wax clinic. Another thought I had was the toko green hard wax binder ironed in abd covered might have also performed very well, as the problem we had was not in the wax shearing from the base, but the kick wax shearing off the green klister.
Today conditions were an ice base with 1-3 inches of old powder tilled into a light amount of tilled granular.
the overnight temps were in the single ditgits with the test temp around 10' and it warmed to around 20' upon departure.
This was a high school race. On both ski's I tested Toko spray on green klister, and then covered one with swix green, the other with Rhode Multigrade Blue. Both kicked well, so I went with Rhode with the wider range for the race wax. This is what the Boys team raced on, with the exeption of one racer we struggled against most of the other team's as far as kick went and I did not noitice a dramatic advantage in glide as a spectator. The Girls team applied Swix Blue under foot, and with an exeption or two they had smilairly poor results like the boys. For the JV race I had them apply extra Blue and torched it in as I noticed the Varsity ski's with little exeption had lost nearly all of there kick wax and were down to base green Klister binder. This worked a little better, and we had some skiers do quite well, but it was still not the best wax in the race by far. I talked to the team, who I had felt had the best ski's in the race. They used Skare Blue Klister made By Rhode as there binder,a softer klister than what we were on, likely applied thicker than the spray on waxes, they then covered with Rhode Super Blue for the advanced kids and Rhode Multigrade for the more Novice races. Both being much softer and well above the race temperature race waxes we used.
Had I had more time to test, and talked to the other coach sooner, I would have liked to try a Klister warmer than what they had used, covered with a colder hard wax on top, as mentioned earlier this winter at a swix wax clinic. Another thought I had was the toko green hard wax binder ironed in abd covered might have also performed very well, as the problem we had was not in the wax shearing from the base, but the kick wax shearing off the green klister.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Rhode Special Green Vs Multigrade blue
Date: January 3
Temp -5 in am +10 in the afternoon
Snow: Old tracks in the am with a little snow snow skied in. The course was regroomed at 11:00 am for the afternnon test at 3:00pm
In the AM both waxes worked extremly well. I could not feel much difference in the two, leading me to believe after racing Blue multigrade at the alumni race with mixed feelings the Blue multigrade is a wax that should be used at the bottom of its range in the northeast.
In the afternoon, not much changed I had a little slip out of the special green ski, but it still felt very racable, and had a much larger range than I expected. Overall these were two waxes glided very well in cold temps, which can be the biggest factor in cold weather as kick is not hard to find.
Temp -5 in am +10 in the afternoon
Snow: Old tracks in the am with a little snow snow skied in. The course was regroomed at 11:00 am for the afternnon test at 3:00pm
In the AM both waxes worked extremly well. I could not feel much difference in the two, leading me to believe after racing Blue multigrade at the alumni race with mixed feelings the Blue multigrade is a wax that should be used at the bottom of its range in the northeast.
In the afternoon, not much changed I had a little slip out of the special green ski, but it still felt very racable, and had a much larger range than I expected. Overall these were two waxes glided very well in cold temps, which can be the biggest factor in cold weather as kick is not hard to find.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Rhode 0 vs Swix 60
Temp 33
Snow: Well packed tracks, with somewhat dry snow falling
The 60 provided kick superior to the 0, however the 0 was very kickable, and by far the free'er ski in the new snow making it a clear race day choice over 60 in this condition.
Snow: Well packed tracks, with somewhat dry snow falling
The 60 provided kick superior to the 0, however the 0 was very kickable, and by far the free'er ski in the new snow making it a clear race day choice over 60 in this condition.
Bogburn
Temp: Approx. 25' F
Snow: Fairly moist new snow, Steep climbs became sugary
Three wax combinations came into play at today's race. I used Rhode Super Blue covered with the new 0 to -2. It was an extremely fast wax, and had very good kick in the woods, and fair kick in the sun. I also top coated with ski go c22. Early in the race up to 3k I was gaining on all nearby racers and tucking up and over climbs I would double pole on the second lap. overall my ski's were very good. I would have rather roto corked the c22. The two other waxes successfully used today were a combo of Swix 45 and 50, and Ski go LF violet. We had racers put down quality races on all three. leading me to believe, on the amateur level racer fitness on a course like this is far more important than wax, especially considering the sugary up hills that would shear even on a ski waxed far too warm.
Snow: Fairly moist new snow, Steep climbs became sugary
Three wax combinations came into play at today's race. I used Rhode Super Blue covered with the new 0 to -2. It was an extremely fast wax, and had very good kick in the woods, and fair kick in the sun. I also top coated with ski go c22. Early in the race up to 3k I was gaining on all nearby racers and tucking up and over climbs I would double pole on the second lap. overall my ski's were very good. I would have rather roto corked the c22. The two other waxes successfully used today were a combo of Swix 45 and 50, and Ski go LF violet. We had racers put down quality races on all three. leading me to believe, on the amateur level racer fitness on a course like this is far more important than wax, especially considering the sugary up hills that would shear even on a ski waxed far too warm.
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