{"id":1630,"date":"2015-03-11T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2015-03-11T07:51:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:51:34","slug":"mini-marathon-and-spring-biathlon-races-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/mini-marathon-and-spring-biathlon-races-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Marathon and Spring Biathlon Races This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be holding the Great Sacandaga Mini Marathon on Saturday. This is a 30 km freestyle cross country ski race. There is also the option of registering for the 13 km Micro Marathon. Bib puck up and day of registration will open at 10:00 AM. The race will start at 11:00 AM. The start will either be waves or a mass start depending on the number of athletes registered. The entry fee is $25 for pre-registered, $35 day of race. Pre-Registration closes on Friday at 6:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1YleVUpd4IgnfRCXB7P9iEriX6N5JrHwre8UE7j82PlQ\/viewform\">Pre-Register for the Mini Marathon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule for Saturday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:00 AM &#8211; Registration Opens<\/li>\n<li>11:00 AM &#8211; Start<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Sunday, we will hold our annual Spring Biathlon Races.This is a fun event to close out the racing season. In the race two person teams will compete, by skiing alternating loops of 1.4 km. There will be two divisions, Men&#8217;s (two men on a team) and Mixed (at least one woman).<\/p>\n<p>You can register as a team, or as an individual. Individuals will be paired up the morning of the race, before zero.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1KN_BUNoek9ZdtHASrq2VW0hYGR9bacOrnfMaVVHo17Q\/viewform\">Pre-Register for the Spring Biathlon Races<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All competitors must have completed a prior safety clinic.<\/p>\n<p><b>Format of the Race:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each team will complete six laps of the course (3 by each skier).<\/li>\n<li>The teammates will alternate laps.<\/li>\n<li>There will be five shooting stops, the first skier will shoot three times (prone, prone, standing), and the second skier will shoot twice (prone, standing).<\/li>\n<li>On the second skiers third loop, they will ski to the finish line.<\/li>\n<li>Each team will be assigned a target for the race. All shooting (including zero) should be done at this point.<\/li>\n<li>Relay rounds will not be used in this race (in other words, you only have five bullets for each shooting stage).<\/li>\n<li>A penalty loop must be skied for every miss.<\/li>\n<li>The tag zone will be located immediately after the exit of the penalty loop.<\/li>\n<li>The race will begin as a mass start, the first team across the finish line after six laps is the winner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the relay races we will hold a short mass start biathlon race.<\/p>\n<p><b>Schedule for Sunday:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9:00 AM Registration Opens<\/li>\n<li>10:00 AM Zero Opens<\/li>\n<li>11:00 AM Relay Race Start<\/li>\n<li>12:00 PM Mass Start<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Entry Fee: $15 pre-registered; $20 day of race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be holding the Great Sacandaga Mini Marathon on Saturday. This is a 30 km freestyle cross country ski race. There is also the option of registering for the 13 km Micro Marathon. Bib puck up and day of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/mini-marathon-and-spring-biathlon-races-this-weekend\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mini Marathon and Spring Biathlon Races This Weekend<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-races","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratogabiathlon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}