The Program
The Georgian Nordic Racing program is designed to give an athlete more confidence and thus make racing more fun.
The program consists of:
- Quality Training once a week, twice on snow, with like-minded skiers on a team. We ski, rollerski, run, walk, drag, pull, push, jump and then some.
- Dryland training camps in June, September, November.
- Build on your present skills and learn new skills.
- Learn how to improve your glide, kick and feel for more speed.
- Prepare skis like a pro, test your skis for flex, glide, and the most kick.
- Learn how to log all your hard work.
- How to stay healthy during a training season, not overtrain.
- Find a way to measure and evaluate your improvements.
- Superski Saturday on snow training camps, also World Cup videos shown.
- Technical training on dryland and on snow, video analysis.
- Full race support at local races, and 2 Ontario Cups.
- Learn how to focus on realistic personal achievements.
- Preparation for racing, mentally, technically, and physically.
- Apply strategy in training and racing.
- Get stronger, faster, gain confidence, and enjoy competing even more!
The Gear
Note: If you do not have some or most of the following gear, that is ok, we will find something to get you going. It is expected from skiers to be willing to get the required gear to fully participate in training and racing events.
We will announce before each practice what gear is required. Questions of what gear works best for you and so on is part of our regular training.
- Helmet, water bottle with holder are mandatory at every practice, cool or retro shades help.
- You will need a pair of rollerskis, skate or combi for starters. Poles should be the same as you use on snow, good quality and stiff. Pole tips should be carbide. You will need some shorter poles for walking, cheap old poles are fine.
- Bring running shoes to do nordic walking, running, strength, etc.
- On snow you will need an older pair of skate skis, and or classic skis. We call these rockskis, they are essential to train on snow as soon as there is snow on the ground.
- Warmup and regular skis could be your rockskis or another pair.
- A good pair of skate and classic skis is required. Top end is not required, what is more important is the right flex for the conditions you ski in most. For classic it is important to get skis that work for you right now. Do not buy skis that are stiff, they do not work for you, may be never.
- A decent pair of waxless skis with a bit of a camber for better glide are great to have. Zero skis are optional, but are being used more on the racing ciruit.
- You will need to get some basic waxes.
- Green, blue, and pink glider, hydrocarbon or low fluoro.
- Groove and flat scraper, a nylon brush, a horsehair brush, some fibrelene and wax cleaner should be in your box or bag.
- Kick waxes, keep it simple, green, blue, violet, and red for starters. A couple of synthetic corks, plus universal klister. David at Trysport will be happy to assist.
- Invest in a good iron, it will save the ski base. Avoid household irons.
Also needed
Clothing, snacks and water
- Proper warm clothing is required to be comfortable during practice. Dress in layers so you can shed layers as required.
- Racing suits work great for racing, overpants and warmup jackets are required.
- Be well hydrated and fueled before practice. Good food, granola bars, power bars work well with water to keep your energy topped up. Stay hydrated during practice.
- Good eating habits become even more important when you are training full time.
- All that training, the body is cold after a session and starving for fuel. Muscles have to deliver whatever is left to repair themselves. Eating a snack and hydrating within 20 minutes after practice speeds up recovery, delivers food to repair muscle, well, it keeps you healthy. The result is adaptation, you will improve speed and strength. Make this a habit. I’ll be looking for that.
Masters
Please register and start training with us.
Coaches
Interested in high performance coaching, consider joining us. This may just be the thing you have been looking to do.
Role of Parents or Guardian
- We need your help in getting proper equipment for our athletes.
- Arrive on time
- Encourage your children to participate, and be positive
- Transportation to races, we will discuss this for each race
Finally
All fees go to the club. The club carries a large part of the cost to keep the membership fee down. The fee covers only a small part of the equipment and waxing cost we have available for racing. Travel, accomodation, and race registration is not included in fee.
Come and ski with us, and if you would like to help out more formally, we would be very grateful.
Peter Wiltmann
NCCP level 3 coach
705-342-9397
Georgian Nordic Ski Team
Wawanaisa Road 33
Nobel, Ontario
P0G 1G0
Team schedule, updates, photos, training resources on our website http://sites.google.com/site/dillonglider/Home
