Racing season 2010/2011 is open!

We had first race in Goms.
Sprint
results:
prolog: http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&competitorid=149602&raceid=17982
final: http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&competitorid=149602&raceid=17983

Here are the results of classic 10km race (individual):
http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=CC&competitorid=149602&raceid=17984

Some pics of course:

XC-ski training WE in Chaux-de-Fonds

Lada, Misha (our friend from London) and I (Evgeny) did some trainings this WE in Chaux-de-Fonds.
On Saturday we skied under the heavy snowfall that continued over the whole day
and made the whole Suisse Romand look white :)
Thanks to abundant snowfalls in the last week, the snow conditions were very good on Saturday with 25km of groomed tracks.

After the snowfall on Saturday track conditions became even better and Sunday was waiting for us
with very good tracks and sun. I managed to try all my new ski equipment and successfully finished the training week with long training session. Racing season starts next week. Starting to get my form ...

Evgeny (changed from blue to red)

Misha and his cool car, that doesn't fit skis :()

First snow arrived

We had a first ski training on the first snow at Chaux-de-Fonds with an SAS candidate from Bern (Antti).

Evgeny and Antti

Ski training with SAS

We had an inter-section SAS ski session together.

More info on this blog.

SAS Lausanne in Terrific

This year team SAS Lausanne again participated in Terrific race (Crans Montana)

Terrific is a popular race that takes place on the 2nd weekend of June in Crans Montana. It is a relay that consists of 7 disciplines: mountain bike, mountain running, ski touring, cross country ski, swimming in the lake, road bike and cross country running.

Here is our team members:
1. Butcher Mark (mountain bike, EPFL alumni)
2. Buergler Jonas (mountain running, PhD ETHZ)
3. Galdos Gorka (ski touring, PhD EPFL)
4. Bogdanov Evgeny (cross country ski, PhD EPFL)
5. Comas Joana Maria (swimming, PhD EPFL)
6. Pardyjak Eric (road bike, visiting professor EPFL)
7. Thompson Sean (cross country run, exchange student EPFL)

Mark opened the race with mountain bike and climbed up from Crans Montana around 7.5km (with 710m vertically). Then he passed relay to Jonas who had to run around 6km up (instead of 4.5km and 240m up, the running track was changed this year). After Jonas, Gorka went up 650 meters on ski touring (the initial part of a track lacked snow this year, so he had to walk fast with skis on his shoulders for around 15-20 minutes). Gorka passed relay to Evgeny who made a hard cross-country ski loop on the glacier (la Plaine-Morte). Then Evgeny passed back the relay go Gorka, Gorka then to Jonas and Jonas to Mark. This way our relay went down from the glacier back to Crans Montana, where Joana swam in the cold mountain lake (10-14 degrees) for 600 meters. Afterwards, Eric took the relay and went on the road bike for 19.5km with 560 meters positive. Sean finished the relay after Eric with 7km running and 120 meters positive difference in altitude.

Our team ranked 13th in overall rating out of 101 finished teams and 8th in our category (our time is 4:52.17,6 with 1h09 from the first place against last year's 5:19.27,7 and 39th).

Below is a general classification:
http://services.datasport.com/2010/diverse/terrific/RANG091.HTM
And here is the detailed classification with timing for every stage:
http://services.datasport.com/2010/diverse/terrific/RANG091.pdf

Thanks a lot to everybody!!!
Special thanks to our support team: Arostegui Saioa!