Monthly Archives: March 2015

Come out and enjoy the extra light, mild temperatures, and one of the last days of skiing for the year:  Monday March 9, 2015 at Windsor Park.  Registration for this event is between 5:30pm – 6:45pm.  Races start at 7:00 p.m. with the youngest skiers.

I am one of the organizers and we are really trying to make it a fun experience for the kids.  Come out and give it a try!

http://www.ccsam.ca/event/dash-cash-kid-sprints/

Hello Jackrabbit Managers,

It’s spring!  It’s warm outside!  Your kids can ski five times this week!  Yippee!

• Monday, 9 March 2015:  “Dash for Cash“.  Chocolate.  Money.  Hilarious colour commentary.  Need we say more?  Coach Jeff will!  Register in person no later than 18:45 at Windsor Park Nordic Centre.  Nobody will be cold:  +4 degrees Celsius predicted.

• Wednesday, 11 March 2015:  “Wednesday Night Participation Race #13:  Costume Relay“.  For 2014/2015 it should have been called the “Wednesday Night Cancellation Race Series”.  Week after week cancelled.  This week you can race without freezing!  And dress up like it’s Halloween or dress-up-time.  Register online no later than Tuesday night by 21:00.  Pick up participation bib no later than 19:00 on Wednesday at Windsor Park Nordic Centre.  Also, +4 degrees Celsius predicted.

• Thursday, 12 March 2015:  “Fast Rabbits Thursday 12”.  Based on the toasty temperatures, maybe the last “Fast Rabbits Thursday” of the winter to be held?  Would you believe +4 degrees Celsius predicted yet again?

• Saturday, 14 March 2015:  “Boundary Trails Distance Challenge“:  Ski. Smile. Eat. Ski. Smile. Eat.  Ski.  Smile. Eat.  Or something like that.  Coach Jeff to provide update later this week on why you should go!  -4 to +6 degrees Celsius depending on when you go.

• Saturday, 14 March 2015 and/or Sunday, 15 March 2015:  Biathlon Manitoba’s “End of Year Event”.  Newbies young and old are encouraged to participate to ski and shoot.  Falcon Ridge Ski & Recreation Area.

• Sunday, 15 March 2015:  “Sunday Session”.  Currently not on the schedule.  Might need to put in a local session for the people who can’t make the Saturday ski-and-eat-a-thon.  +9 degrees Celsius predicated at the “end” of skiing.

Based on the above zero air temperatures and the warm sun, this may be the last week of snow on the ground suitable for skiing this winter.  Enjoy the skiing while you can!

Hello Jackrabbit Managers,

A truly beautiful day for skiing at Falcon Lake today! Fast and fun and … and uneventful!

Not that the tubing was uneventful, at least for a few kids, unfortunately.  So, we might want to be aware of concussion detection and treatment:

• For non-medical people, we are to refer to the Pocket Concussion Recognition Tool to determine if we should seek medical assistance.
• For medical people, they are to use Child- SCAT3, the “Sport Concussion Assessment Tool for children ages 5 to 12 years”.
• The above comes from the international “Consensus statement on concussion in sport: the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2012“.

Sorry, Jackrabbit Managers, if I had remembered everything last night, last night’s post would have been titled, ““Jackrabbit Expedition 2015″: Seven More Details”.  Here are the missing four details:

1. The weather forecast for Falcon Lake for Sunday, 8 March 2015, says it will be beautiful!  A delightful -3 degrees at 11:00 rising to 0 degrees  at 15:00.  All with next to no windchill.  A great time to be outside!  Don’t miss “Jackrabbit Expedition 2015”!
2. If you have skate skis, bring them.  If you have waxless classic skis, bring them.  If you have waxable classic skis, bring them, and we will supply the wax to get you some grip (if you want to classic ski) or keep the grip wax off if you want to skate ski.  Anything and everything goes!  We will divide into appropriate groups once we see who shows up and what they have.
3. I will be bringing five tow ropes to share with the group to pull newer skiers (or to slow them down going down big hills) if needed.
4. Print out a couple of maps for your family.  This map shows all of the trails in black and white (http://www.falconridgeski.com/images/falcon_ridge_ski_trails.jpg).  While this map shows many of the trails and is in colour (http://biathlonmanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/BAM-trails-all-colours1.gif).

Three more details regarding the “Jackrabbit Expedition 2015” to Falcon Ridge Ski & Recreation Area:

1. The “Jackrabbit Expedition 2015” is *the* Sunday session for Sunday, 8 March 2015.  There will be no session in Assiniboine Park this Sunday.
2. All of our clocks need to spring ahead one hour from 02:00 CST to 03:00 CDT on Sunday, 8 March 2015.  So, our 11:00 skiing start time will feel like 10:00.
3. If anyone needs a ride, or if anyone has empty car seats and would like to take on more passengers, contact me and I will attempt to coordinate.

Schedule for Falcon Lake Expedition

08:45-10:45 – Drive from Winnipeg to Falcon Ridge Ski and Recreation Area. Head east on the Transcanada, turn into Falcon Lake and follow the signs along the south shore of the lake, about 15 minutes from the Falcon townsite,

11:00 – Adventure ski: either Picnic Island or out towards the Eco Cabins, depending on the trail conditions.

Noon – Have lunch in chalet.

After lunch – work on snow plows and turns on a real hill! & more skiing on the race trails, watch some biathlon if they’re shooting! And if you’ve had enough of that: Tubing.

4:00: pack it up and head home.

• The day lodge is a great place to get boots on and changed for the drive home. There is no charge for cross country skiing at Falcon Trails Please refer to the Falcon Trails website for tubing and other facility details: http://www.falconridgeski.com/.
• Bring a camera.
• A Manitoba provincial park pass for your vehicle is required.
• Feel free to bring a crash helmet for the tubing part although the activity is crash friendly, but don’t let on that you feel it’s mellow and very safe.

-Coach Ihor

Mother Nature is going to be nice to us.  Really! A “balmy” -10 degrees Celsius air temperature.  Okay, there will be a -19 windchill.  But still way more pleasant than a week ago. Yeah!

So, Coach Ihor’s group and Coach Rob’s group are all invited to come to “Fast Rabbits Thursday 11″, on Thursday, 5 March 2015, from 19:00 to 20:15, at the Windsor Park Nordic Centre.

Because it will be so warm, come prepared to work on skate technique (not classic technique).

For those of you who have a single pair of skis: Just scrape off the grip wax underneath the binding and cork back in the remnants in the warmth of your home and you will be good to go.

I will be bringing tow ropes to pull kids who may be newer to skiing and still want to check out this Fast Rabbit Thursday thing.

DASH FOR CASH…

What: Fun sprint races for Kids (Nursery to Grade 6). First race is with one other person, the winner gets a real loonie, 2 nd place gets a chocolate loonie. 1st place goes to the A final, 2nd place races in the B final.

Nursery to grade 2 race 50m against their grade level.

Grade 3 to 6 race about 100m.

Where: Windsor Park Nordic Center

When: Monday, March 9, registration 5:30pm – 6:45pm, Races start at 7pm.

Why: Competitive racing in a low key and fun environment is great for the kids to challenge themselves against others. Getting $ and chocolate is fun too!

Check out this link (below) for all the details…

http://www.ccsam.ca/save-date-dash-cash-back-march-9th/