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.