GPS Training 24th/25th February 07 - CANCELLED

Yet again, the snow is eluding us and so training has been postponed until 3rd/4th March.

Thanks

Scottish Children's Championships - Cairngorm - 17/18 March 07

For those that would like to take part in the racing at Cairngorm on the weekend of 17th/18th March, a GPS Coach will be there all weekend to help take you through the races. Children born between 1992-1995 can compete in the Scottish Childrens Championship which will give them the opportunity to compete against some good skiers and hopefully gain some decent seed points. There will be a Slalom on the Saturday and a Giant Slalom on the Sunday. Children will need to be registered with Snowsport Scotland and parents need to submit entries for their children.

For the slightly younger trainees, the Bairns Bucket race on Saturday 17th March will give those born in 1996 or earlier the chance to race against each other.

Further information on the race including entry details is available on the Snowsport Scotland website (the address is on the links page). There will be GPS Coach support on both days for any children/bairns taking part in the racing.

If you are interested in taking part in the race, please let your club representative know so that we can ensure that there is suitable coach support both at Cairngorm and for the groups who will attend the scheduled training at Glenshee.

GPS Training - 17th/18th February 07 - CANCELLED

Unfortunately, due to the last few days of warm weather and the forecast for the coming weekend, GPS Training has been cancelled. This is due to a lack of skiable area in which to run the training.

However, the Ski Centre will be opening some areas at the weekend so please don’t let this put you off supporting the Hill and going up for a ski!

An update regarding next weekend’s conditions will be sent out next Thursday (22nd Feb). So far the forecast looks a bit better into next week so fingers crossed!

Thank you to all that turned up on Sunday. We had a good session on Claybokie in between the rain showers. Ewen and Ben ran some drills through the poles including trying to hit them as hard as you could!! The times from the afternoon races can be found via the Racing link.

Thanks to everyone who helped out to make it a fun day. Update on conditions for this weekend will be posted on Thursday.

GPS FUN SESSIONS - DETAILS

Meet at the Sport Anyway Building at 10.30am. Weather permitting the session will run all day based on Claybokie where the coaches will be setting up some poles and running some racing drills. If you arrive late, head up to Claybokie to join the group.

Road conditions are likely to be poor so please check the status of the road before you set off.

Hope to see you there.

GPS FUN SESSIONS!

Further to the official training being cancelled due to lack of skiable area and the wild weather forecast, some of the GPS coaches have offered to run a fun session on SUNDAY. This is will be at no cost to those that join in and will not count as one of the prepaid sessions but for those that are interested and weather permitting some of the coaches will be there if you want to join them. Please however note that some parental volunteers will be needed for supervision etc depending on numbers so help would be appreciated.

Further details on times and meeting points etc will be posted here on Saturday afternoon/evening so keep watching...

Just a short update at lunchtime Friday.

Official GPS Training is OFF this weekend. This is due to the lack of skiable area at Glenshee. However there will be some limited unofficial training. More details will appear here tonight(Friday)

GPS Training Update - 10/11 February 07

At the moment there’s not enough snow however more is forecast over the next 24 hours. It is unlikely that race training will go ahead this weekend however a final decision will be made at lunchtime tomorrow and will be posted here.

Please check back tomorrow for the final decision.

GPS Training Latest

Unfortunately, due to the thaw this week, there is no snow to ski on! Therefore GPS training is postponed until Saturday 10th/Sunday 11th February.

Keep checking for conditions updates, a decision on next week's training will be made on Thursday 8th/Friday 9th February.