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Show B-4 The Park Record Calendar Summer Sports Running Round Valley Rambler June 16 8:00 a.m. Park City Mountain Run July 4 8:00 a.m. Jupiter Peak Steeplechase July 14 8:00 a.m. Mid Mountain Marathon August 18 7:00 a.m. Triathlon Echo Triathlon July 14 8:00 a.m. Bike Racing Intermountain Cup Series Liberty Park June 23 8:00 a.m Mid-Week MTB Series High Star Ranch June 19 5:00 p.m. Solitude June 26 5:00 p.m. Snowbird July 10 5:00 p.m. Recreation Sports Park City Recreation Services (615-5401) Volleyball 6:00-9:00 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. Softball Coed Comp Division Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Coed Rec Division Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Coed Division Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Coed Division Wednesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Men’s Division Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Sat/Sun 8:00-10:00 a.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri 2:00-4:30 p.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Sun–Friday 8:30 a.m. Noon Volleyball (age 16 +) Thurs. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri Noon -1:30 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Wed. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Drop-in Soccer (age 30 +) Tues 8:00-10:00 p.m. Masters Swim Tues/Thurs Noon-1:00 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. 4v4 Comp Division Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Campers will dive into the run-bike-swim season soon Tri-Kids camps hope to teach a love for the sport BEN RAMSEY South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center Weather Hotline (cancellations) (783-2423) 615-5432 Women’s Volleyball Park City Ice Arena Ice Hockey Gold League Sunday Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun 615-5707 6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Thursday Rock Wall Saturday 7:00-9:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Pickleball Open Gym Wed. – Fri 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Basin Recreation Fieldhouse (655-0999) Soccer 7v7 Coed League Wednesday 4v4 Rec Division Tuesday Sand Doubles Thursday Drop-in Sports Basketball (age 16 +) Tues/Thurs Noon-2:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Tues. 8:00-10:00 p.m. To include an upcoming sports event in the calendar, please send an email to Joe Lair at scoreboard@parkrecord.com Searching for new things to do? You don’t have to work this hard. Check out the calendar in Scene for local music, events and more! Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 16-19, 2018 The Park Record The triathlon camp TriKids123 is hosting its first of three summer day camps starting Monday, June 18. Founders Kari and Scott Davis brought the camps to Park City in 2005 when they moved from San Diego. The camps teach its participants all the basic skills necessary to compete in a triathlon, including bike safety and technique, swimming technique, running and endurance train- ing, and transitioning between sports. “It takes them a while to get used to putting their shoes on with wet feet,” Kari Davis said of the 5- to 12-year old participants. “Usually (transitioning) something that is difficult for them at the beginning then gets easier and easier.” The camps run for five days at Ecker Hill Aquatics Center and each culminate in a triathlon race, with differing lengths depending on age group, on the Saturday after each camp. “Because each kid gets to finish and gets their own medal, there’s a sense of camaraderie and completion,” Scott Davis said. “I think this is stuff that carries over into confidence. We’ve had kids that loved it; now they are competing in college.” Scott added that one of the campers came back to help coach the camp, then ended up running the Iron Man World Championships in Hawaii. And though the Davises said many of the Tri-Kids campers have gone on to compete at a high level in various sports, the ideas they hope to impart are about love for their sport, and a new sense of self-confidence. “We want to keep it kind of toward that beginning level,” she said. “We are geared toward fun activity and a sense of accomplishment.” The camp hosts between 2050 campers, roughly half of whom are returners. For more information, and to register, go to Trikids123.com. In the intuitive sport of burro racing, animals rule Temperament is key in donkey races, say competitors ANTONIO OLIVERO Summit Daily FRISCO, Colo. -- On the heels of Saturday’s second annual Pack Burro race in Creede, Colorado, Brad and Amber Wann of the Western Pack Burro Association set up shop inside the Frisco Historic Park’s log chapel on Wednesday. Inside, dozens of locals and tourists packed the pews and eagerly listened to the state’s history of burro racing. The Wanns and their two burros, Dominick and Darby, also stuck around after the hour-long presentation to chat about what factors steer successful burro racing duos. There are integral variables such as human-burro matchmaking, rope-handling and verbal and body-language communication. However, Brad Wann believes, at the core of a successful running pair, is a human racer’s ability to defer to the personality of the burro. “We’ve actually had people who are great runners and are not great for the sport, not great for the critters,” Wann said outside the log chapel on Wednesday afternoon. “They just didn’t have the right temperament. They are like, ‘Well I wanted to run and this donkey didn’t want to run.’ Well, there you go — your ego. This is not a human race.” In recent years, the sport has increasingly attracted high-level racers from other sports as well as international media attention. As part of their presentation in Frisco on Wednesday, the Wanns showed a video produced by the sports equipment company Salomon. In it, Salomon had elite trail runners Max King and Ryan Sandes enter last year’s 29-mile world champion- Continued from B-1 Sports briefs SUMMER SWIM LESSONS The PC MARC is offering swimming lessons on weekday evenings and Saturdays for children ages 6 months to 12 years old. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-6155401 for details. BASIC SKATING CAMP Ice skaters at least four years of age and of all skill levels are invited to attend Park City Ice Arena’s basic skating camp from July 30 to August 3, 9 a.m. to noon. Skaters should have some experience skating, whether it be group skating classes, private lessons or recreational experience and should be able to skate on their own can comfortably without assistance. This camp has a recreational focus. The camp is $190, with a price increase to $210 on July 16. To register call 435-615-5707 or visit parkcityice.org. MOUNTAIN MILES RUN Basin Recreation is hosting the ship race in Fairplay. Of 16 racing duos, Sandes and a provided burro named Scratch finished the race in sixth place while King and a provided burro named Earl finished the race in 16th. In speaking to the Frisco crowd, Amber Wann relayed that the trail runners were told to run together, as Earl and Scratch run best when in close proximity to each other. That didn’t happen and contributed to King and Earl’s poor finish. “That’s what this sport is about,” Brad Wann said. “It’s not about you. It’s about them. Can you navigate them through everything you need to without having almost any caution for yourself?” Unlike most other competitive sports, burro racing is a tango between two different mammalian species. And unlike thoroughbred horse racing, human racers do not mount their burros. Rather, humans run in front of, behind or alongside their burros, often looking small in stature in comparison to their donkey counterparts. Brad Wann is a good example of this dynamic. A Clydesdale of a man himself, Wann is an imposing 260-pound burro racer. But this will be the first season in which he runs with the same animal at each event. Cheeto, a 900-pound, 5-yearold burro, will help Wann to scale and descend thousands of feet at such iconic races as that 29-mile 70th annual World Championship Pack Burro Race in Fairplay on July 29. “He’s a pretty good-sized donkey,” Wann said, in the understatement of the 2018 Pack Burro Racing season. Though Brad Wann is a veteran burro racer with a lifelong connection to horses — his father was an equine chiropractor in Texas — he admits he still needs to check his ego and selfish assumptions each day with Cheeto. Cheeto is a burro who wants his space. Wann maintains a “hula hoop-sized circle,” as he put it, around Cheeto during all times of the race. Wann focuses on having no fast movements toward Cheeto’s body and careful applications and releases of pressure on the rope. “So if I’m running in back, I go as far back as I can and give him all the space in the world,” Wann said. “You’ll see me running, and there will be 5 to 6 feet between me and my donkey. But that’s where he wants me.” Cheeto is effectively Brad Wann’s leader. And Wann said Cheeto’s specific personality stems from the following: Each burro has an inate sense of self-preservation when traversing treacherous mountain terrain such as the highlight of the Fairplay world championship: Mosquito Pass. The Wanns also highlighted the importance of knowing how to use the course together with your burro. It’s similar to a cyclist knowing they can rest soon with a downhill approaching. “Say I’ve got a 600-foot climb in front of me,” Brad Wann said, “I already know it’s 600 feet, so I’m going to knock out half of that all on me. And then that last half it’s going to be all on him. I’m going to hang on. We are already preparing for that before we even hit the peak. And so our job is to get them to the top with the least amount of stress possible and keeping them happy. Because if he’s not happy, I’ve had donkeys at the top of a hill, even with all the skill I have, not go the extra 20 feet.” That exact situation happened to Wann at last year’s inaugural Creede race, when his burro Banjo Boog refused to budge at a mountaintop. Reflecting back, it’s just another reminder to the Wanns of how trust and proper matchmaking between human and burro is at the core of what separates good and bad racers in their — and High Country Colorado’s — beloved native sport. “One slight mistake can cost one unhappy person and an unhappy donkey,” he said. Mountain Miles run on July 21 at 7 a.m. The race, with 3- and 5-mile groups, will start at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse, and there will be Pioneer Day-themed refreshments at the finish line. Cost for the Pie-N-Beer Run is $30 for adults and $10 for kids (under 18 years old). Sign up online at basinrecre- and is seeking coaches to fill an assistant coaching position. Call Head Coach Brett Isaacson at 301-8303977 or email parkcitygirlshoops@ gmail.com for information. This will be a paid position for the 20182019 winter season. ation.org or at The Fieldhouse. BJJ Revolution Team Jiu Jitsu is offered on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at Silver Mountain Sports Club in Prospector. Group and private lessons are available in Brazilian jiu jitsu, and “No-gi” submission grappling for sport, self-defense, and fitness purposes. Sessions are available for children and adults starting at $100 per month. Contact 435-714-0321 or sign up at Silver Mountain Sports Club, 2080 Gold Dust Lane in Prospector. PC BOXING CLUB Park City Boxing Club, led by Olympic boxer Shane Heaps, is located in the Silver Mountain Sports Club in Prospector. Private one-on-one sessions, as well as group classes, are available. For more information contact Heaps at (435) 647-6486. SWIM LESSONS Registration for summer swim lessons at Silver Mountain Sports Club is now open. Classes are available for all abilities, including parent-child lessons and private lessons. All lessons are held at the club’s Prospector location. Non-members are welcome. Contact Silver Mountain Sports Club Aquatics at 435-649-6670 ext. 107 or email swim@SilverMountainSpa. com. ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH WANTED Park City High School Girls Basketball has a new head varsity coach JIU JITSU SILVER MOUNTAIN SUMMER MEMBERSHIPS Silver Mountain Sports Club family summer memberships are available from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Summer memberships grant pool access, including a water slide, lazy river, poolside grill, kids castle and muscle beach. The summer membership also includes use of both club locations and all fitness classes. Call 435-649-6670 for inquiries or visit SilverMountainSportsClub.com. |