3 Big races this weekend

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Feb 062018

First off: Saturday the Winona Forest Tourathon – Family friendly, 12.5k, 25k, and 50K.- as of this morning even more fresh snow, already packed rolled and trackset!– Don’t step off trail, it’s deep!

Also Saturday: The Glenville hills Classic-Family friendly 10K, and 5k , shorter loop for citizens and Bill Koch. Glenville received 8 fresh inches: The trails packed nicely! trails are fast but turns are very forgiving {It will be trackset this afternoon}

Sunday The HURTATHON-15K+ Bill Koch- Up at gore, get those legs burning before sectionals!

Wednesday’s Storm should provide plenty of snow for excellent trail conditions. Please sign up early so organizers can sort out bib #’s and get the races underway in a timely fashion.

Second: The ESWG weekend opened up with the traditional lighting of the torch.

Last weekend NYSSRA Nordic racers competed in the annual Empire State Winter Games. The ORDA Crew and Mother Nature came together to make some challenging courses. Results are currently posted on Webscorer, and being posted in our results section.

Pictured ESWG Tournado Points leaders:Robert Dadekian, Eric Seyse, Chris Rose, Amanda Zullo, Jim Miller, Mark Poprocki, Janet Findley, Connie Prickett, David Burt, Chris Beattie

	Winner	Winning total	Racers
Female	Sophia Kelting	36	32
M2	Amanda Zullo	40	1
M4	Jill Koziol	-1 race	1
M5	Connie Prickett	40	2
M7	Janet Findlay	40	1
SR	Kade Hill	40	1
U14	Sophia Kelting	40	5
U16	Morghan DeSalvatore	-1 race	4
U18	Eve Schoen	33	14
U20	Audrey Emerson	40	3
Male	Brennan Nobles	29	52
M1	Eric Seyse	60	2
M3	Kyle James	-1 race	1
M4	Chris Rose	60	3
M5	Jim Miller	47	9
M6	Robert Dadekian	40	2
M7	Mark Paprocki	60	6
M8	David Burt	40	2
M9	Chris Beattie	60	2
SR	Ian McGuire	20	2
U14	Andrew Scanio	56	4
U16	Thomas Wiedmann	47	8
U18	Alex Fragomeni	60	9
U20	Justin Caron	56	2

Alex Fragomeini is the 2018 ESWG Tournado Champion. He earned 2 gold medals and 1 silver Behind Olympian Duncan Douglas.

(Here he is after his first victory on Friday)

Peru Nordic Masters Pool Won the racing block. It is a rather close race for this season’s Points Championship between HURT, GHN-ADK Vauhti, and PERU.

Third: The ESWG Skate race Saturday was the second Wilkinson Cup race of the Season. Due to weather 3 races were cancelled. The Points committee has voted to expand this seasons series to include percent back scoring of all races.

Racers who attend Championships at Saratoga and at least 2 other races will be scored in this years Wilkinson Cup.