Brennan and Wager take Holiday Classic

Michigan Cup

Sun, Dec  26, 2010 - By Mike Muha

Mac Brennan, back home in East Jordan for the holidays from Michigan Tech, narrowly beat Williamsburg's Milan Baic to win the Holiday Cup 9 km Classic at the Boyne Valley Lodge in Walloon Lake. Brennan finished in 24:15, 18 seconds ahead of Baic. Jeff Kock of Elk Rapids skied in third, just 5 seconds behind Baic.

Brendan Baic on his was to 2nd place finsh for the OJ males.
(All photos by Bridget Foltz)

Ann Wager of Gaylord was the fastest women in the 9 km classic, winning in 35:39. Laura Webb of Traverse City and Catarina Gulledge, back home to Roscommon from school at the University of Michigan, were second and third in 38:43 and 38:44.

In the 5km junior classic race, the more experienced junior, OJ Maria Frick of Williamsburg, easily skied away from the competition, winning by over 4 minutes in 16:01. J3 Sarah Goble of Harbor Springs was second in 19:09, with J1 Brady Brennan (Mac's sister) third in 19:54.

For the boys 5k,  J2 Mark Smith was first in 19:36, followed by J3 Reid Goble (19:36) and Traverse City's J2 Sean Brownell (20:13).

Hap Wright leads John Britton down the hill into the stadium.

The race was was groomed best-line single track, with an interval start. Racers took off individually at 15 second intervals. The junior 5km race was allowed to finish before the 9km race started. The race began with a kilometer lap around the stadium area. The lap featured two climbs (one quite steep) a short but very fast downhill, and a longer downhill with a quick left turn. The course then continued onto a 4km loop with lots of long gentle climbs, one screamer downhill, and lots fun and fast turns. The snow was soft so corners were relatively easy to negotiate and speed controllable. The 9km race did and extra lap around the 4km loop.

For those who have never skied at the Boyne Valley Lodge, the stadium area is a great spectator area. Skiers in the 9km race passes through the stadium 7 times. And it's out of the wind!

Jon Foltz says it all on his way to a 9th place finish overall.

Many racers in the longer race expected the tracks to be glazed after the junior 5km race. It was not to be. Instead, the tracks softened with a layer of powder. Skiers who waxed too short experienced snow-shear, where the ski grabs the top layer of snow, but that layer slips over lower layers. Racers who waxed long had better kick. Although the temperature was in the low 20's, most skiers glide waxed colder and kick waxed warmer than the temperature called for. For example, Toko Red kick wax with a range from 25-30F worked very well in the older snow because of the flakes were not sharp and humidity was high.

A chili lunch afterwards during the awards ceremony left everyone warm and cozy after the race.

 

AGE PLACE	OVERALL	BIB	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	CITY	TIME
5KM CLASSIC
J3 Female 13 & Under - 5 Km
1	2	2	Goble	Sarah	Harbor Springs	0:19:09
J1 Female 16-17 - 5 Km
1	5	3	Brennan	Brady	East Jordan	0:19:54
2	7	8	Cullen	Kennedy	Traverse City	0:21:30
OJ Female 18-19 - 5 Km
1	1	7	Frick	Maria	Williamsburg	0:16:01
J3 Male 13 & Under - 5 Km
1	4	1	Goble	Reid	Harbor Springs	0:19:36
2	9	9	Rudolph	Bow	Harbor Springs	0:23:00
3	10	11	Daniel	Doug	Petoskey	0:23:20
4	11	4	Ottimmer	Alex	Harbor Springs	0:24:27
J2 Male 14-15 - 5 Km
1	3	10	Smith	Mark		0:19:28
2	6	5	Brownell	Sean	Traverse City	0:20:13
3	8	6	Brownell	Tim	Traverse City	0:22:54
9 KM CLASSIC
Female 20 To 44 - 9 Km
1	47	134	Gulledge	Catarina	Roscommon	0:38:44
2	56	150	Stevenson	Gwenn	Oxford	0:57:17
Female 45 & Over - 9 Km
1	38	137	Wager	Ann	Gaylord	0:35:39
2	46	154	Webb	Laura	Traverse City	0:38:43
3	52	153	Upton	Fran	Roscommon	0:44:15
4	53	156	Sharp	Susan	Petoskey	0:47:22
5	54	106	Mueller-Brumbaugh	Carole	Rockford	0:49:17
6	57	128	Murray	Jean	Mt. Pleasant	0:59:03
OJ Male 18-19 - 9 Km
1	7	125	Williams	Ross	Williamsburg	0:26:52
2	16	124	Baic	Brendan	Walloon Lake	0:28:43
3	20	112	Harris	Ryan	Grayling	0:30:17
Male 20 To 44 - 9 Km
1	1	119	Brennan	Mac	East Jordan	0:24:15
2	3	133	Koch	Jeff	Elk Rapids	0:24:38
3	5	113	Yankus	Daniel	Walled Lake	0:26:24
4	8	109	Goodman	Glenn	Bellaire	0:26:57
5	9	143	Foltz	Jon	Boyne City	0:27:11
6	13	104	Todd	Dell	Grand Rapids	0:28:18
7	29	111	Smith	Robert	Roscommon	0:33:20
8	31	118	Brownell	Larry	Traverse City	0:33:44
9	33	151	Doornbos	Ben	Petoskey	0:34:36
10	36	114	Motowski	Dan	Hartland Township	0:35:33
11	41	158	Paul	John	Traverse City	0:36:54
Male 45 To 49 - 9 Km
1	4	123	Paull	Denny	Cheboygan	0:24:41
2	14	115	Dufour	Yvon	Brighton	0:28:33
3	17	149	Smith	Randy	Williamsburg	0:28:51
4	22	144	Seaman	Michael	Mt. Pleasant	0:30:58
5	25	146	Britton	John	Zanesfield	0:31:34
6	35	105	Kuz	Julian	Ada	0:35:28
7	37	140	Temkin	Mike	Troy	0:35:36
8	39	148	Karlsen	Steven	Breckenridge	0:36:28
9	40	152	Cook	Tim	Freeland	0:36:48
Male 50 To 54 - 9 Km
1	2	127	Baic	Milan	Williamsburg	0:24:33
2	10	121	Muha	Mike	Wixom	0:27:50
3	18	126	Heady	Doug	Ann Arbor	0:29:27
4	21	116	Fairman	Robert	Ann Arbor	0:30:50
5	27	122	Cornell	Douglas	Corunna	0:31:43
6	28	131	Seager	Steve	Grayling	0:32:55
7	32	138	Rudolph	Steve	Harbor Springs	0:33:53
8	48	155	Webb	Craig	Traverse City	0:40:20
Male 55 To 59 - 9 Km
1	6	103	Gravlin	John	Linwood	0:26:34
2	12	120	Worsnop	Gregory	Paw Paw	0:28:12
3	19	108	Weingartz	Chris	Petoskey	0:30:02
4	24	117	Anderson	Jim	Fort Wayne	0:31:25
5	26	110	Luce	Robin	Central Lake	0:31:40
6	34	130	Nolan	Daniel	holland	0:35:24
7	43	141	Vande Kopple	Bob	Pellston	0:37:08
8	49	142	Ahrenberg	Bill	Cheboygan	0:42:28
9	55	147	Abbe	Mark	Saginaw	0:49:46
Male 60 To 69 - 9 Km
1	11	135	Dawson	Ken	Farmington HIlls	0:28:06
2	15	129	Brundage	Bill	Traverse City	0:28:36
3	23	101	Kaltz	William	Pinckney	0:31:11
4	30	102	Smigiel	Steve Sr	Ada	0:33:35
5	42	107	Brumbaugh	Ernie	Rockford	0:36:57
6	44	145	Wright	Hap	Boyne City	0:38:21
7	45	136	Schmekel	Ray	Traverse City	0:38:22
8	50	157	Sharp	Sam	Petoskey	0:42:35
9	51	132	Gambert	George	Bellaire	0:43:31
10		139	Johnson	Max	Brutus