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AGM Notice

Even though skating has been finished for the season for a while now, the business of running our organizations has not.

  • YASSA/WRSSC Annual General Meetings are scheduled for Sunday May 26 beginning at 4pm at Takhini Hot Springs. There are several executive members who will be retiring from our board this year so we are on the lookout for new blood. Please consider stepping forward to assist with building our speed skating community into one of the best in the city/Yukon. Contact any of the current executive (Laini. Malcolm, Barry, Susanne, Lorne, Phil, Mark, Stacey, Agnes, Terice) for more information.

We will be at one of the picnic shelters; I’m not sure which right now. The meetings will be followed by a BBQ, members are requested to bring a dessert or salad; burgers, buns etc. will be provided. Swimming in the pool will be available for our younger members while the meetings are on.

 

Litter Pick-ups

  • Our member driven fundraising litter pickups are scheduled for

    • Wed. May 29 at 6pm at CDC (Education Building near Riverdale Bridge)
    • Sat June 1 at 10am at the intersection of Dawson Road (Wolf Creek subdivision) and Alaska Highway.

 

2012-2013 Season

Well that's a wrap! WRSSC ended a successful season with the annual Yukon Championships March 31. It must be some kind of a record - 29 PB's were set, several skaters setting new marks in all their distances skated. Well done! Oh, and the tunnel race was a hit.

Yukon Championships March 31, 2013 results

Personal Bests March 2013

tunnel racetunnel racetunnel race

Photos by Susanne Wirth

 

skaters at camp

Our winter camp with Maggie Qi was a great success. Skaters from Grande Prairie and Peace River as well as Anchorage attended this year. Races were part of the weekend activities. On Saturday the skaters, coaches and parents gathered at Takhini Hot Springs for a supper and soak.

February 3 camp race results

Race results January 13

Personal bests Jan 2013

 

Need some soft guards (soakers) for your skates? Here's an easy plan for making your own from scraps you probably have at home.

Soft Guards (.doc)

 

 

 

This season we will continue with the changes to our program and races as presented in "Racing On Skates", SSC's competition and events system review. Training to Train skaters and younger will be skating on a 100m track instead of the regular 111m track. As well race distances and format are changing for some groups. Please see the Competition information page for details.

For more information including a PDF version of "Racing On Skates" please refer to:

http://www.speedskating.ca/LTAD.cfm

Note: We will use LTPAD terminology instead of our old group names of Novice and Intermediate/advanced. The novice group is now referred to as Fund ( for Fundamentals/ Learning to Train stages) while the Int/Adv group is referred to as T2T (for Training to Train and following stages).