February Newsletter Volume 1
Welcome to the February newsletter. With every week we are getting closer to summer. But, winter is not yet over. The ski and skijor clubs around Alaska are in full swing with races and fun events. Take a look at our calendar of events at the bottom of this newsletter. And, we have new bikes being built daily including our new range of all carbon mountain and road bikes. Test ride them on one of our bike trainers, or bring your own bike and join the Saturday morning training sessions. Bring in a copy of this newsletter for exclusive sale items.
DOT's Proposed Yankovich / Miller Hill Multi-use Path
Alaska Dept of Transportation held an open house event at UAF on Jan 30, 2007 to present the current project design options, cost estimates and discussion on these options. Currently public comment on the project can be made until March 1 2007 by email, fax or mail. If you missed the open house, send an email request to the project manager for the electronic version of most of the documents from that meeting. Send comments or ask for further questions contact the project manager, Barry Hooper, 907-458-6884, DOT Fairbanks office or at barry_hooper@dot.state.ak.us
Feature Item: Advanced Mechanic Tool Kit – AK 32
Designed specifically for the home mechanic that wants the best, the AK-32 Advanced Mechanic Tool Kit is a special 32-piece collection of our finest “shop quality” tools, all packaged in a tough tool box. The AK-32 includes all the most frequently used tools, as well as some items a mechanic should not be without – basically, everything needed to perform most repair and maintenance tasks, from brake adjustments to headset overhauls, on the majority of current model bikes.
Sale Item – Salomon Equipe 10 skate and classic skis
Normally $500, now $350 for a limited time.
Skate: The finest, fastest ski for top racers and world-class skaters. Created feather-weight with the lightest construction and core, while the stiff yet low carbon-powered camber provides phenomenally efficient kick on all surfaces and terrain.
Classic: Only you set the speed limit with the Equipe 10 Classic. Lightweight construction with a long square racing camber and fast base delivers powerful kick and perfect glide to make this ski a top performer. Sale price by mention of our newsletter only.
Tech Tip: Waxing With Molybdenum
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This low fluoro wax has great dirt-resistant qualities, and is especially good in old snow conditions, allowing the ski to breakaway cleaner, sooner. The wax also reduces static cling created in ski use. The wax should be applied every 5th wax as a base coat. If the snow is cold, molybdenum can be used in a 50/50 mixture with a blue base wax as a hardener. The molybdenum wax also replenishes the graphite in the black-based skis giving a longer life to the ski. |
Tyson's tales from the ski trail
Tyson Flaherty is a former West Valley High and UAF skier, and now races for Alaska Pacific University. Tyson is currently racing in the U23 race series in Europe and writes to us from the road after competing on February 11th in Oberstdorf, Germany .
“Well the races went great for a few of us and not so good for some others. I opted to ski in the classic sprint on Sunday, rather than the pursuit – which starts off as a classic race and turns into a skate race. I think there were about 60 guys on the start list and it was one of the hardest classic sprint courses I have ever seen. It had 2 steep climbs and 2 crazy downhills, so it was sweet!
I ended up qualifying 13th, which was awesome for me. 30 people got to qualify, so chances were pretty good, but I was happy to be so close to the front. I was also the only American to qualify for the heats; none of the women made it, and Brent broke a pole, Garrott Cuzzy fell on a hard corner, Kevin Hochtle was not skiing very fast, and Bart was just not in it.
I got to move on into the fifth heat in the quarterfinals. I did not have the best kick, as the tracks were icy and it was raining a little, and the other guys in my heat were able to kick up the hills a bit better. I ended up 4th so I did not qualify for the next round, oh well, at least I got to do a little more racing and things were good.
It was great watching the Saturday races, there were many good skiers. Our US guys had a rough day, but if you look at the competition, the guy who won last week’s World Cup took second place this week, so there were some crazy fast dudes.
The girls did amazing too. Taz was leading for a bit of her race and ended up 5th and Liz ended up 6th so it was a very good showing.
We are now in Kranska Gora Slovenia just 15 clicks down the road from Tarvisio where we will have the U23 worlds in about a month from now. We may get to watch a world cup alpine event here in a couple of weeks, so that could be sweet. The snow looks good here, deep and a lot of it.
Today we got to drive through 3 countries starting in Germany, then through Austria, and into Slovenia. It was very cool. We thought about running into Italy this afternoon to make it 4 for the day, but it was about 2k to far for the legs to carry us.
This next weekend we have 2 distance skate races; a 15k individual start on Saturday and a 30k mass start on Sunday, they should be awsome. I am starting to feel good and comfortable with the time change."
Tyson
February 2007 Calendar
| Date | Club | Time Location | Event |
| 3 | NSCA | 11.00 Kinkaid Park | Besh Cup #5 |
| 4 | NSCA | 11.00 Kinkaid Park | Besh Cup #6 |
| 9-11 | ASPA | Various locations | Race Across the Valley |
| 11 | SCC | Salcha | Interior Youth Champs |
| 18 | NSCF | 11.00 Birch Hill | Chest Medicine Series #3 |
| 18 | NSCA | Kinkaid Park | Anchorage Cup |
| 18 | ASPA | 11.00 Creamers Field | Training Clinic |
| 22-23 | NSCA | Kinkaid Park, Anchorage | AK State HS Championships |
| 24 | NSCF | 11.00 Birch Hill | Fairbanks Biathlon Series |
| FCC - Fairbankc Cycle Club - SCC - Salcha Ski Club; ASPA - Alaska Skijor and Pulk Association ; NSCF - Nordic Ski Club Fairbanks; NSCA - Nordic Ski Club Anchorage | |||
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