This past weekend was Birkie Weekend! Luke was registered for the Birkie and I signed up for the Korte. We both trained as much as we could and Luke was excited to cut some time off his race from lsat year! The Birkie is a 51K (31 mile) race while the Korte is 26K (16 miles). My cousin Tim also joined us for his first Birkie this year! It was a fun weekend with a great group of friends (many friends of friends). It was hard to leave the kids again.....but it was "no big deal--it's just 2 nights" (as Nora proclaimed).
We were all a little concerned about the conditions as it warmed up the days leading up to the race and rained on Friday! It was 37 during the race, but the conditions held up really well and we all were warm!
Luke, Tim and I were all happy with our results! I finished in 2:02. My goal was to finish--my next goal was to move up a wave and my stretch goal was 2 hours! I was happy with 2:02 for my first race!!
Luke cut an hour and 20 minutes off his time from last year and was extremely happy with his race! He finished in 3:27! Tim had a great first race as well finishing at 4:30ish! We all enjoyed a post celebratory beer at the Angry Minnow afterwards!
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Trying our bibs on!
Luke, Barry, Stacy, Tim, Carla, Fred, Andy, Nate |
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| Korte Skiers! Dan, Stacy, Ang, Carla |
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| Early wave Birkie Skiers! Fred, Luke, Andy, Barry |
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| Fred and Luke at the start! |
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| Happy to be done! |
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| Celebrating at the Angry Minnow! |
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| Cousins--first year finishers get the medals! |
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| First year finishers! |
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| Most of the gang! |
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| A car full of skis! |
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