Craftsbury athlete David Moody tops the podium at the GNA Paintball Biathlon.

TONS of racing these past several weeks. Wanted to pass along the impressive results of some of our BKL athletes. Big thanks to Paula Davidson for sharing her photos and race report!

Silver Fox Trot

Seven Craftsbury skiers traveled to Hanover, NH on March 1st to take part in Ford Sayre's Silver Fox Trot races. It was another cold but sunny day. The mass starts made for exciting spectating and tricky skiing as skiers were funneled into narrower lanes in the skate races. Cormac Leahy was jostled to the ground in the boys 3/4 race, which had the largest field of 28 skiers, but he made up lost time to win that race in a photo finish. Alan Moody won the grade 1/2 classic race and then switched skis to compete in the 3/4 skate race, coming in 6th. Griffin Wright won the 5/6 boys race, with David Moody placing 11th. Craftsbury girls also had great results. Quincy Massey-Bierman was 2nd in the girls 5/6 race, Anika Leahy placed 8th in the 1/2 girls classic race, and Aliza Wright skied into 10th place in the girls 3/4 race. Full results.

Gunstock Nordic's Paintball Biathlon

David and Alan Moody traveled farther east in New Hampshire to visit their grandfather and invite him to watch them race in Sunday's March Madness Paintball Biathlon, hosted by Gunstock Nordic Association. With small targets, standing shooting, and no practice time (due to the large turnout, paintballs were in short supply), cleaning targets was not easy in this race, and most of the 101 young and adult skiers came up empty or cleaned one or two. David was one of only three skiers all day who cleaned more than 3 targets when he made 4 out of 5 in his second shooting stage. The 15 second bonus for each cleaned target gave him a wide margin of victory in his J4 race. Alan endured two frustrating shooting stages when the top of his pole got in the way of the paintball gun, losing him several seconds each time. (Now he knows not to try shooting paintball guns left-handed with poles on, even though he's mostly a leftie!) He did clean two targets and skied hard to finish in 2nd place in the J5 race.

Results here. And here are photos of David at the range and on top of the podium -- a special moment for him!

BKL Race Report: Silver Fox Trot and GNA Paintball Biathlon