Willem Langenberg, of Edmonton, filed the following report:
Hereby a report on the masters at the North American Marathon Championships in Lake Placid on February 3-4.
Besides the master action in Winnipeg (Results), there was a lot of master skating action at the North American Marathon Championships in Lake Placid. There were some very fast young guys from the States (e.g. Chris Callis, who was 19th in the World Allround in 2003) up front, but for the rest it was all master skating.
Alberta masters Brian Johnston had a 2nd and 4th place in M50-59 and Willem Langenberg had two third places in M60-69 (see Results).
They went on to the Winterlude Festival and tested the ice of Rideau Canal in Ottawa (see Photo - copyright Edmonton Sun).
The Marathon Skating International (MSI) action will now move out West. For the Silver Skate Festival marathons, North American Champion 50K Champion, Jim Cornell and last year's female overall MSI Champion Suzanne Dionne (3rd place Sylvan Lake 200K 2005) are confirmed. They will get competition from Jamie Ivey (and possibly Marcin Goszcynski of the Dutch Viks Marathon Team) and Sarah Gregg and many others. In the Kortebaan sprinting, Jamie Gregg will get competition from the United States (Andrew Love).
After the Masters Worlds, the action goes to Sylvan Lake Marathon. We hope to see many masters at these events.
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