Northern Ontario District is proud to present the 2009/2010 NOD Race Series

Skiers from across northern Ontario are invited to participate in this winter’s NOD Race Series.

A Poster for distribution and posting in club houses, etc. is located here.   POSTER

A total of six events will count as official NOD events in the 2010 series:

January 9-10, Hiawatha Invitational, Soo Finnish Nordic Ski Club, Sault Ste. Marie

54th Annual Hiawatha Invitational

Online Registration - Zone4

Click on the Links for Further Information

February 13-14, NOD Ontario Cup, Onaping Falls Nordics Ski Club (near Sudbury)

Please note: the O-Cup races on Monday, February 15 will not count for NOD points

Onaping Fall Nordic Ski Club

Online Registration through Zone4.

For more information Click On "What's New" at the top of the Onaping Falls Nordic Ski Club mainpage

March 27-28, NOD Relays, Temiskaming Nordic Ski Club (Coleman Township, near Cobalt and
Temiskaming Shores, Ontario)

Temiskaming Nordic Ski Club

Click in the Link for More Information

All teams booking must state that they will be participating in the races at the Temiskaming Nordic Ski Club.

Saturday night banquet will be at Dymond Community Hall, which is just north of New Liskeard, along the Highway 11 Commercial Strip

Lodging options are in order by relative proximity to Banquet site – first two are significantly closer (a few blocks), last three are all about a 15 minute drive from the Banquet site.

First four choices are all about a 15-minute drive to the Ski Club, whereas number 5 is closer to the club (about 5 to 7-minutes away from the club).

The Northern Ontario District of Cross Country Ontario held its first of three NOD Race Series events on January 9 and 10. Hosted by Soo Finnish Nordic, in concert with the club’s 54th annual Hiawatha Invitational race, the first event of the NOD Race Series attracted over 70 participants. Racers from Temiskaming and Walden joined a large local contingent from Sault Ste. Marie.

Cold temperatures delayed the start of the classic race on Saturday, but not the enthusiasm of competitors and fans. Under sunny skies and good snow conditions, racers from the age of 6 to nearly 60 enjoyed a great day at Hiawatha Highlands. Sunday’s mass start provided additional excitement and thankfully some warmer temperatures!  The award ceremony following each day of racing offered ribbons for all jackrabbit racers, sick NOD Race Series stickers for the top three youth in each category and bragging rights as the current NOD points leader for racers over 19! The club leader in points – Soo Finnish - is already planning trips to Onaping and Temiskaming to maintain its early lead.

Full standings and points leaders will be posted soon on this site. Visit zone4.ca (Hiawatha Invitational / NOD#1) for complete results. And be sure to attend NOD#2 at Onaping in middle February. This Ontario Cup event should attract considerable NOD competition.

Photos of the Classic Event are HERE.

Photos of the Skate Event are HERE

There were five succesfull applicants for the NOD bursary.

These indivduals were:

ADAM BIROSH, GHISLAIN LAPLANTE, JESSE WINTER, VICTOR HOPPER  and JESSICA DEMERS

Congratulations to these athletes.

This year we will access the Park and the Ski Chalet from the Main Park Entrance.   We will put up our club sign near the park sign at the main entrance so you won’t miss it.  This entrance is closer to the turn off of HWY 144.  The drive in the park to the parking lot will be a little longer.

With this entrance change, we had to modify the start and finish of our park trail and our access to cross the road.  The changes were completed at the request of the park management.

Check out this excellent article by Maureen Kershaw from Sudbury. It is posted on the Cross Country Canada website here :

http://www.cccski.com/main.asp?cmd=doc&ID=4571&lan=0

Are you tired of looking at ski videos on U Tube ? Are you frustrated trying to find the two lines about skiing that are squeezed in between the articles on Arm wrestling in Botswana and Tiddleywinks in Uruguay on the last page of most newspaper sports sections ?