Don Pendergrast skied his 10 km classical virtual Denali State Bank Sonot Kkaazoot today in an official time of 52:52.

Don writes:

“After being away for a week I skied the 10K classic style today, Sunday, March 21. 

I report a slightly different time to account for taking poles, gloves off, starting GPS on phone, fumbling around to put the phone in the pocket, reversing all and finally starting, repeating all at the finish. 

I carefully counted One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi . . . For a total of 52 Mississippi seconds.  I subtracted the fumbling time from my skiing time.”

We appreciate Don’s scientiic approach to calculating his official time.

Carl Hemming improved upon his 10 km classical virtual Sonot Kkaazoot that he did on Wednesday (not Sunday when he was in Anchorage or Talkeetna).

He wrote: “Conditions were  faster today than on Sunday so this may account for a slightly faster time. I started at 2 so it may have been 10 degrees warmer. The time on my watch was 1:01.14; the time on the phone included removing phone from fanny pack removing poles and gloves and finding the right button to push, which is quite a big deal for someone approaching 70 yo. This process occured at both start and finish.”

So Carl Hemming’s official classical 10 km Denali State Bank Sonot Kkaazoot is 1:01.14 .

The Sonot Kkaazoot reporting guru (and Carl’s coach) won’t take any additional 10 km results from Carl unless he skate skis. He needs to ski the 30 or 50 km virtual Sonot next if he doesn’t want to be reminded of his underachievement for the next 20 years.

It looks like Carl was the fastest bombing down the Tower loop and White Bear access. Congratulations on your improved time.

Byron Broda chased the SCUM on his classic skis for all 10 km of his second virtual 10 km Sonot Kkaazoot. His time was 1:03.

Bryron commented, “I think I only have one speed anymore.”

The SCUM (especially Carl) jumped the gun and started before 10 a.m. yesterday. However, you did cut 3 minutes off your first time.

All the remedial SCUM were classical skiing.

From Mike Mathers:

“I went to the Sonot blog site and enjoyed the depiction of my fall as Bugs Bunny,  I left unaware how to post to it other than a reply to someone’s comments.  My time was 56 flat.” 

From Frank Soos:

“my time was 1:01.47

wayward scum”

From Jerome Jackson:

“Sorry. Did not time.  Finished about 25 secs behind Big Frank.”

No problem. So your time will be 1:02.12 based upon Frank’s result.

From Dan Johnson:

“I had to rush home and then here to the Carlson Center. Still here. My time was 60 minutes 45 seconds.”

Thank you, Dan for spending your Wednesday giving Fairbanks residents their COVID-19 vaccine.

Robert Hannon submitted his 10 km virtual Sonot Kkaazoot result with just the time and his documentation. However, had our SCUM photographer been there, Robert would have been the best dressed skier.

Time: 1:03:26

However, Robert must have taken some shortcuts on the course as his GPS shows a 5.82 mile outdoor walk.

A day after seen posing in a 34th annual Denali State Bank Sonot Kkaazoot facemask, Carl Hemming (known among the SCUM as the Oosik Poser), took off ahead of the gang this morning. Carl’s official 10 km time was 1:04.

Carl wrote: “Great fun on the trails w/scum.”

Carl was wearing his Oosik bufff during his 10 km virtual Sonot Kkaazoot. He wanted Bad Bob to know that the ear slots on his Sonot Kkaazoot face mask don’t work for him.

A group of 9 SCUM, who had been COVID-19 vaccinated, gathered to ski the Denali State Bank Virtual Sonot Kkaazoot 10 km course this morning (or to improve upon their previous times). It was about 5 deg F in the stadium when we started with skies clearing as we skied.

As the only female and oldest skier among those skiing today, I had the distinction of being the red lantern, but the SCUM were still in the finish area when I fnished with a time of 1:07:12, which included the time of getting mitts on and off to push my watch’s buttons.

Here is my Polar GPS trace than is slightly shorter than that of Garmin watches.The 30 km and 50 km virtual Sonot courses remain.

Now just the 30 and 50 km courses remain.