Please check the APJ website menu to view the new page: Training Blog. This new page will be used for posting workouts, as well as training and food & nutrition ideas.
Coach Ihor has taken time to design an excellent workout for the Track Attack skiers of the group . Club members are encouraged to do this workout three-times-per-week during November and the beginning of December. Parents are invited to participate, too. Check it out… Workout #1 looks great!
There have been some phone calls and emails inquiring as to the status of this Sunday’s ski session… will it be happening? It is still in the “TBA” realm due to the unpredictability of the weather and snow conditions at the Park.
TIPS:
In the meantime, please note that there have been a few items posted on our Buy & Sell pages (under the “Marketplace” drop down menu). One item was posted and consequently sold within a day. However, there is still a really great deal listed: $80 for a whole ski package!
Now that the snow has begun to fall we’re all getting a little more anxious to have our ski equipment ready to go for that exciting first session! Please remember to check out the Buy & Sell ads posted right here on our website under the “Marketplace” drop-down menu.
Remember also that if you have an ad posted here and the items have either been sold, traded, given away, or you have found what you’re looking for, let me know so that I can remove your ad.
Thanks. Gina
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Until further notice, all scheduled Sunday sessions are hereby cancelled due to lack of snow. Sunday sessions will resume once there is enough snow on the ground to (roughly) cover the top of the lawn in Assiniboine Park. Yes, those sessions will be skis-on-snow skiing sessions, not running-shoes-on-grass dryland sessions. When sessions resume with actual skiing, we will be sure to post on the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits website to let you know.
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Hello Jackrabbit Managers,
Today’s session (Sunday, 9 November 2014), known as “First Formal Session! (1)” on our schedule, has now been cancelled!
Sorry for the short notice.
It was the intent of the coaches to hold a session today if the weather conditions were similar to the previous three dryland conditions.
However, this will not be the case today. Air temperature is currently forecast to be -6 degrees Celsius with a -13 degree windchill with winds gusting up to 40 kmh from the northwest. Plus snow. See http://spotwx.com/products/grib_index.php?model=meteocode&zone=r1.15&tz=-6&title=FPWG11&lat=49.89975&lon=-97.13749 for details.
Oh, also frozen and wet goose poop.
We will try again next Sunday.
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Hello Jackrabbit Managers,
I know. I know.
You watch your kids having fun skiing with the Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits and you say to yourself, “Self: Gosh, this looks like fun! All these kids zooming around. I like to zoom around too on my skis! And I have been skiing a while. Gee, I also have pretty decent technique. Hey, if I became a coach, I could zoom around with all of these great kids on skis, and we would all have have great skiing fun. I could even teach them a skiing technique or two (or dozen or more).
So, you say, how could I become a certified cross-country ski coach? Easy! First, take a two-day course with like-minded skiers, in the comfy Sport For Life Centre building located just kind-of-a-stone’s-throw from the Manitoba Museum (you know, another fun place for both kids and adults alike). This course, “Introduction Community Coaching (ICC)” is conveniently scheduled for Friday evening, 14 November 2014, and Saturday, 15 November 2014.
See the Cross Country Ski Association of Manitoba (CCSAM) website for details (http://www.ccsam.ca/event/intro-community-coaching-icc-workshop).
Contact Coach Rob (or any of the coaches you already chat with) if you are kind-of-sort-of-interested but want to talk first to find out what might be involved, or if you are already to register.
And yes, we do indeed have enough certified coaches to run the club, but we can always use more!
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Hello Jackrabbit Managers,
Just a reminder that today, Sunday, 2 November 2014, is “Dryland Fun 3”, again meeting at the Assiniboine Park Duck Pond Shelter at 13:30.
Remember the “fall behind” time change that occurred early this morning.
Temperature is forecast to be a balmy +8 degrees Celsius at play time today! So, please remind you kids to dress in layers so that they may remove clothing once they warm up.
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This website has been undergoing a number of changes over the past few weeks. Bear with me as I stumble over some of the hurdles that come along with navigating new territory. The menu now has a drop-down option so please take note of the extra links attached to “About”, “Photo Gallery”, and “Marketplace”.
Just a quick reminder to everyone that today is the very first APJ ski club session (on land, of course!) at Assiniboine Park. Meet at the Duck Pond Shelter at 1:30 p.m. Please wear shoes appropriate for “hiking” along the park’s riverbanks.
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