div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGj6ITUtI/AAAAAAAAANw/Bc913Glgjqc/s1600-h/canada+040.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGj6ITUtI/AAAAAAAAANw/Bc913Glgjqc/s400/canada+040.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313128874359608018″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-style: italic;font-size:85%;” This hill is part of every course and you approach this hill with a lot of speed. A lot of people have gone down on this one. I heard one racer in the Classic Distance race crashed through the fence on the right and fell down to the mud at the base of the tunnel. /span /divp style=”font-style: italic; text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGk9nI7nI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Ce7gbQ0o9jM/s1600-h/canada+045.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGk9nI7nI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Ce7gbQ0o9jM/s400/canada+045.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313128892474125938″ border=”0″ //abr /span style=”font-size:85%;” Noah Hoffman, herring boning to 5th place in the 15km Classic./span/pdiv style=”text-align: center;” /divp style=”font-style: italic; text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGlQ0K3-I/AAAAAAAAAOA/yGpDNiHv6rw/s1600-h/canada+053.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGlQ0K3-I/AAAAAAAAAOA/yGpDNiHv6rw/s400/canada+053.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313128897629052898″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Mike Sinnott getting after one of the tough hairpin corners/span/pdiv style=”text-align: center;” /divp style=”font-style: italic; text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGmPmYktI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Dq9zw33qy1c/s1600-h/canada+057.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGmPmYktI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Dq9zw33qy1c/s400/canada+057.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313128914482664146″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Icy conditions meant that I double poled allot. I was a long ways out, but this is still one of my better classic races (19th)./span/pdiv style=”text-align: center;” /divp style=”font-style: italic; text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGmC1elFI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/K4OBpQ9wAvw/s1600-h/canada+061.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9V9RUbOlZzs/SbwGmC1elFI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/K4OBpQ9wAvw/s400/canada+061.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313128911056311378″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Reid Pletcher climbing into the stadium. /span/pdiv style=”text-align: center;” /divp style=”font-style: italic; text-align: center;”span style=”font-size:85%;”img src=”http://www.xcskilife.com/images/can%20nats09%20002.JPG” height=”372″ width=”538″ /br /Matt Liebsch climbing the hill in the quarterfinal. Matt helped didn’t race the classic distance race and helped us all with wax. Today I worked for him and the other Sun Valley skiers. We had 6 inches of snow fall before the classic sprint and then the sun came out. Klister covered./span/p p align=”left”span style=”font-size:85%;”The final race is the mass start 50km on Sunday. I am most excited about this race and feel good and ready. /span/pdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8083254037538554650-7326698675174524093?l=in-the-arena-brian.blogspot.com’//div