Lake Placid Skeleton Race Results!!!

Lake Placid Skeleton World Cup Results

About the Lake Placid Track:

Length to finish: 1455 m 

Length to end of track: 1680 m 

Curves: 19 

Maximum G Forces: 5.1 

Maximum Speed: 130 km/h 

Average Grade: 8.6%

The first track was built in 1930 for the 1932 Olympics and remained there in use until about 1980 when they built a new track for the 1980 Olympics. In the late 90's parts of both of those tracks were torn apart to make way for the new track to be complete by 2000 for the Goodwill games.  The old track still remains but is not in use. Lake Placid is the location of the Olympic Training Center and houses hundreds of athletes.

Friday - Women's Skeleton Race #1

Noelle Pikus-Pace finished the race with the 2 fastest runs and claimed the Gold Medal!! Anja Huber of Germany finished 2nd and Lizzy Yarnold of Great Britain finished 3rd.

Sunday - Women's Skeleton Race #2

With a small delay on the bobsled/skeleton track (the groove was sending sleds crooked from the start, they sent down about 20 forerunners (practice sleds) and still couldn't fix the problem). So the race was shortened down to a 1 heat race.  Noelle was having fun and just enjoying her last run down the Lake Placid track. She finished with the 3rd fastest run and claimed the Bronze Medal for that race. Janine Flock of Austria took 2nd (Congratulations to Janine, that was her first podium finish!) and Lizzy Yarnold of Great Britain finished 1st.

Pictures of Our Lake Placid World Cup Week

 Happy Birthday Noelle! 31 years old on Dec 8, there's no turning back now!!!

 Traycen getting a little Luge training in the OTC (Olympic Training Center) gym.

 Our AMAZING hosts (Bob & Karen Peters) and adopted parents let us help cut down and decorate their Christmas tree.

 Lacee holding the Gold Medal flowers after the skeleton race on Friday.

 Traycen wanted the helmet on after the race and wouldn't let me take it off for quite a while.

The kids found some fresh snow and started eating and playing. All during the race, I couldn't get them to come watch, they were busy turning into snowkids!!

Lake Placid Race WC #3 & #4

Lake Placid Skeleton World Cup Race #3 & #4

IF THERE IS NO VIDEO?????  Watch the times post from the link below:
http://www.fibt.com/races-results/results/live-results.html (this will not show up until race time)

Lake Placid World Cup Race 1

When:      Friday December 13, 2013

Start #:   Noelle will go off 15th on her first run.

Heat #1:  10:04 a.m. MST  -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPnEuD8YRs
Heat #2:  12:19 p.m. MST  -  http://www.youtube.com/user/bobskeletv/featured

Lake Placid World Cup Race 2

When:      Sunday December 15, 2013

Heat #1:  7:00 a.m. MST  -  http://www.YouTube.com/user/bobskeletv/featured
Heat #2:  8:30 a.m. MST  -   Universal Sports TV

And the Last Shall be First!! :)

Park City & Track Records

12 Years of nothing even close to the record. I don't think anyone got within a half a second since then.

Starting #24 (Dead Last) Noelle Pikus-Pace blasted down the track with her supersonic, cold fusion, hybrid tape and set a TRACK RECORD!!! 49.80 from the previous 49.91.

Now starting #20 (Dead Last Again, this time a good thing) Noelle Pikus-Pace blasted down the track with her injection turbo, NASA confounding, self generating TAPE and set another track record of 49.74! Finishing in first place and claiming the Gold Medal!

If you couldn't watch it, IT WAS AWESOME!!! If you weren't there, IT WAS EVEN AWESOMER!!! My voice still hasn't fully recovered. if you completely missed it, SHAME ON YOU!!! :)

Thank you everyone for your support, we had a great time and were ready to keep it going this week in Lake Placid.  Check out some of the awesome pictures from the race below.

Lake Placid Races will be on Friday and Sunday this week.  I'll update that shortly.

Die Hard Noelle Pikus-Pace Fans. (Heads compliments of Mt. Crane)

 Noelle Pikus-Pace with her new and improved load.

 Noelle Pikus-Pace's first track record with her biggest fan in the sunglasses! :)

 Noelle Pikus-Pace celebrating after her track record first run!

 Noelle Pikus-Pace celebrating after her gold medal performance!

 Noelle Pikus-Pace in the winners box!

 Me (Janson Pace) with the kids right after the race.

 Noelle Pikus-Pace with her gold medal! (with Sarah Reid, Lizzy Yarnold, Shelly Rudman, Michelle Steele and Elaina Nikitina)

 Noelle Pikus-Pace on her throne! Where she rightfully belongs!

Me and Noelle after the race!  Happy Moment!

Team Trials Race: Day 1 Lake Placid, NY

US National Team Trials Skeleton Race

For those just checking in, Noelle Pikus-Pace will be competing in the US National Team Trials.  We are in Lake Placid, NY where the race will take place Monday and Tuesday. 

The Race is set for tomorrow morning (Monday Oct. 21) beginning at 6:30 a.m. MST.  Noelle will be 1st off, so don't sleep in!!!.  The race can be viewed here at this link:

http://www.teamusa.org/~/link.aspx?_id=A4C5A275637C4FD3A1BFF642A2F1E6F4&_z=z

The 2nd run should begin about at about 8:00 a.m. MST.

The weather is finally getting a little colder but it does warm up pretty quick.  Hopefully the ice conditions will make for fast ice and fair racing.

Thanks for checking in and we hope you enjoy the race.  Noelle has been sliding well and has been focusing most of her time figuring out the push.  A push time of 5.60 or better for her would be really good the next 2 days in Lake Placid.

The night before the race!

We have 2 days left here in NY; tomorrow is the first race of team trials in Lake Placid and Noelle's training runs have gone really well.  I will attach a few photos from the track and from our backyard here in NY.

 This is an amazing train set in the basement of the Peters home where we are staying.  The kids love it!

 Just part of the backyard where we went on a 3 mi loop today, pushing our double stroller by the way, over this bridge and through rough trails.  Amazing!

This is a view from the top of the track

 This is Noelle's 2 handed push, since changed to a 1 handed approach

This is Noelle's new pod, she's coming back in style!

Tomorrow is the first race of team trials in Lake Placid and Noelle's training runs have gone really well.  I will attach a few photos from the track and from our backyard here in NY.

1 Week Down

We are 1 week down on the long journey towards the Sochi 2014 Olympics.  Moved in with some great friends near Lake Placid, NY, we are 2 days away from the first set of races of the 2012-2013 Skeleton team trials.  Practices so far have been going very well for Noelle and she has been placing at the top of pack each day.
We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the comfort of the saddle (the part of the sled she lays in and holds on to).  Her first few runs left her some pretty gnarly bruises, so we did some cutting and adjusting only to repeat it again 2 more times.  We finally finished the last set of modifications (fingers crossed) and we'll find out Monday morning when she slides if they worked or not.  The actual races take place on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, (you can visit www.noellepikuspace.com for a more detailed schedule of upcoming events and races). Noelle is supposed to be sliding in official training on Sunday, but we have decided to forgo any unnecessary sliding on Sunday's.  We are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and feel that we are being blessed for this decision.  Mormons are Christians and as such, we believe in keeping the commandments to the best of our abilities.  We aren't perfect but we do our best continually try to live Christlike lives.  You can find out more at www.mormon.org; don't believe the rumors, find out for yourselves.  We're not as weird as people think we are.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us in this journey and making this dream and experience a reality.  We hope that your lives can be touched as much as ours has through the generosity that has been given on our behalf.
I will try and keep this updated as often as possible, anywhere from 1-3 times a week so you can be a part of the journey.