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The first distance race of the year went off today in West Yellowstone, MT. After a great day for APU in yesterdays sprint today was another one with Kate Fitzgerald leading the way getting her first ever win! A great example of someone who just trains...

The first distance race of the year went off today in West Yellowstone, MT. After a great day for APU in yesterdays sprint today was another one with Kate Fitzgerald leading the way getting her first ever win! A great example of someone who just trains...

The first distance race of the year went off today in West Yellowstone, MT. After a great day for APU in yesterdays sprint today was another one with Kate Fitzgerald leading the way getting her first ever win! A great example of someone who just trains...

The first distance race of the year went off today in West Yellowstone, MT. After a great day for APU in yesterdays sprint today was another one with Kate Fitzgerald leading the way getting her first ever win! A great example of someone who just trains...

The first distance race of the year went off today in West Yellowstone, MT. After a great day for APU in yesterdays sprint today was another one with Kate Fitzgerald leading the way getting her first ever win! A great example of someone who just trains...

The first distance race of the year went off today in West Yellowstone, MT. After a great day for APU in yesterdays sprint today was another one with Kate Fitzgerald leading the way getting her first ever win! A great example of someone who just trains...

Happy Thanksgiving!  The racing season is off and running: We kicked things off with race snapshot graphs of the opening weekend World Cup races in Gällivare, Sweden, which I subsequently improved to include a focus on the particular technique used in that race.  Thanks to the several commenters who requested the change. I delved a [...] Related posts:

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Elliott Heats Up West Yellowstone With SuperTour Victory

Popular opinion has crowned Tad Elliott (CXC) as the next prince of US distance skiing, and on another cold morning in West Yellowstone, Montana, Elliott added evidence that those hopes are not ill-founded. In his first start of the 2011 season, Elliott skied away from a challenging field of elite US and Canadian domestic racers, to claim a 14.5 second victory over Lars Flora (APUNSC) in the 15km freestyle. Leif Zimmermann (BSF/Madshus) was third, another...

With Skate Win, Fitzgerald Upstages Favorites in West Yellowstone

You had to look hard, but the signs were there. Over the past two years, Kate Fitzgerald’s results had been steadily progressing, topping out with a 14th place at last year’s U.S. Nationals. A few weeks ago, she was nearly as fast as 2010 Olympian Holly Brooks in a time trial with her club, Alaska Pacific University (APU). And in Thursday’s double sprint qualifier, she finished third and fifth. Still, no one expected Fitzgerald’s victory...