The start of the men's Potter Hill Climb Rollerski Race on Saturday. You can see Lars Flora (Subaru Factory Team) is taking off in the lead followed by James Southam (APU) to the left in the photo. Lars won, Southam was second, Max Treinen (WinterStars) was third. The men did a 3k out&back on Old Seward Hwy before the 3.1k climb up Potter Valley Rd.

The women did a 1.5k out&back on Old Seward before doing the same climb. The top women were: Tazlina Mannix (APU), Paige Brady (WinterStars/UN-Reno), Laura Valaas. I know, I know, I got beat in a sprint. If it makes it at all excusable, I didn't actually know it was a sprint since I hadn't skied up this road before and didn't know where the finish was. But NOW I know, so next time I won't be caught by surprise.

This race was part of a summer rollerski series organized by Ron Randall and was hosted by APU. When I say hosted by APU I really mean that Holly Brooks mostly put on the race since Erik's been busy getting ready for the Glacier camp.

The complete results are below. Which probably don't interest you but I mostly included them in order to point out that there were 29 women racing and only 23 men.

Senior men -- 9k
1) Lars Flora 29:29
2) James Southam 30:05
3) Max Treinen 30:33
4) Lex Treinen 30:37
5) Bart Dengel 30:51
6) Tyler Kornfield 31:14
7) Michael Matteson 31:32
8) Steven Buklis 31:38
9) Florian Notz 31:49
10) Eric Packer 32:56
11) Peter Kling 33:02
12) Nick Treinen 33:55
13) Don Haering 34:19
14) Darrin Markvardsen 34:38
15) Lukas Stutzer 37:10
16) Erin Phillips 37:30
17) Rich Suddock 38:09
18) Patrick Stinson 39:10
19) Fred Stutzer 42:47.

Senior women -- 6k
1) Taz Mannix 25:01
2) Paige Brady 25:06
3) Laura Valaas 25:07
4) Kristina Strandberg 25:22
5) Katie Ronsse 25:55
6) Caitlin Patterson 26:04
7) Ky Eiben 26:21
8) Becca Rorabaugh 28:11
9) Fiona Worcester 28:27
10) Amy Glen 28:51
11) Kate Fitzgerald 28:55
12) Heather Zimmerman 29:16
13) Ester Kennedy 29:37
14) Kalysta Schmidt 29:45
15) Kelsey Coolidge 29:45
17) Karina Packer 30:03
18) Becca Mamrol 30:46
19) Brenna Egeland 31:09
16) Madigan Stanley 47:00
20) Greta Anderson 31:09
21) Alison Ross 32:02
22) Lauren Hess 32:18
23) Hanna Johnson 33:09
24) Emily Rogers 33:17
25) Jane Sauer 33:52
26) Jasmine Neeno 34:17
27) Heidi Rogers 34:52
28) Cathe Grosshandler 37:34
29) Kathryn Pope 39:38.

Junior Boys -- 6k
1) Scott Patterson 24:43
2) Eric Ryan 25:40
3) Noah Hagen 28:29
4) Kyle Barnhart 31:43.