12/20 wax test

Craftsbury
Temp- 32-34'f
Snow type" Transformed, Glazed track, tilled granular skate surface

Test 1: Swix KR 50 and Rex Gold. The waxes both seemed to be useless  on the uphill glazed track sections. Outside the tracks they would provide decent kick. I did not notice much difference between the two. I was a little disappointed in the Rex gold, The wax was designed for man made snow with a glazed track in this temp range.

Test 2: Swix KR 50 with KR 60 mixed in, against Toko orange and Multi range mixed. These two both performed better and had some kick in the glazed track, fair kick in the none glazed track and could climb all but the steepest hills outside the track. This was good enough for an interval, and ok for todays course, but if we were to race on a course with more sustained climbing i would have been very concerned

Test 3: Toko orange and Rex OV. Both waxes kicked much better, and with a little shorter kick zone could glide against test 2 still on Perrys ski's.

Test 4: This was a test for the team. We applied toko orange on all the skis, and added some Approx %30 of either toko Multirange or Swix KR50. Most liked the combo early in the workout, but later lost kick. This was due to trapped ice in the wax. Conditions were so fast in the tracks, ice on ice was still fast, but ice on ice does not kick.

Conclusion. We made a good call for a short race, but in anything 5k or longer, we might have really struggled to find something. Maybe this is were the Rex gold would come into play. The sacrifice for something perfect would have led to a poor choice late in the race. I talked to Zak Caldwell who had tested a wax with Noah Hoffman from a company Perry had heard of decades ago, They have developed something new that was working and had beat all there other tests. I'll be doing more research on that wax for sure.