After a three hour van drive, three plane rides, two nights and a lot of lost sleep, Colin and I finally made it to Vermont yesterday. Traveling during the holidays is always a gamble, but I was hopeful we wouldn't run into any weather or mechanical d...
HOUGHTON, Mich. – Registration for the 2011 USSA Michigan Tech Super Tour Event presented by Portage Health is now open. The event, January 28-30, will feature races for youth through professional skiers and everyone in between. All races are at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center, host of the 2006 Junior Olympics and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. National Championships. “Michigan Tech is proud to host the 2011 USSA Michigan Tech Super Tour Event presented...
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In its 24-year existence, the Tour of Anchorage cross-country ski race, hosted by the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage, has grown from just a few hundred participants to almost 2,000 ski- enthusiasts—making it one of the largest ski races in North America. This year’s event, slated for March 6th, will start at the foot of the Chugach Mountains and wind through beautiful birch and aspen forests, around the University of Anchorage campus, through Anchorage’s midtown...
I am now enjoying a two-week break from World Cup action after racing 9 times in the last three weeks. Like last year, I have decided to spend the Holidays in Germany to avoid any extra travel. I need as much time as possible to first recover and then put in a solid training block [...]
Jericho, VT – The Ethan Allen Firing Range hosted today’s TD Bank Eastern Cup. The original host, the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, had enough snow to pull of yesterday’s freestyle sprint on their own trails, but felt that moving to Jericho for the longer mass start classic races would provide the best possible racing conditions for the athletes. They were right. With temperatures in the mid-twenties, easy waxing, and a beautiful race course, smiles were everywhere at today’s events....
The December world cups drew to a close yesterday with the Mixed Relay in Pokljuka, Slovenia. I raced in the third slot while Sarah Studebaker led off, followed by Annelies Cook, and Leif Nordgren anchoring. It was a great day for the entire team on the range. We used only five extra rounds between the [...]
The December world cups drew to a close yesterday with the Mixed Relay in Pokljuka, Slovenia. I raced in the third slot while Sarah Studebaker led off, followed by Annelies Cook, and Leif Nordgren anchoring. It was a great day for the entire team on the range. We used only five extra rounds between the [...]
The December world cups drew to a close yesterday with the Mixed Relay in Pokljuka, Slovenia. I raced in the third slot while Sarah Studebaker led off, followed by Annelies Cook, and Leif Nordgren anchoring. It was a great day for the entire team on the range. We used only five extra rounds between the [...]
The December world cups drew to a close yesterday with the Mixed Relay in Pokljuka, Slovenia. I raced in the third slot while Sarah Studebaker led off, followed by Annelies Cook, and Leif Nordgren anchoring. It was a great day for the entire team on the range. We used only five extra rounds between the [...]
CXC Elite Team post race in Silver Star, BC Garrott, Gus, Bryan, Brian, Caitlin, Jennie, Brooke, Jason, and Jessie (photo: Rob Whitney)The 'Western Race Tour' as I like to call it came to an end today. It has been a great start to the season with 8 ra...
CXC Elite Team post race in Silver Star, BC Garrott, Gus, Bryan, Brian, Caitlin, Jennie, Brooke, Jason, and Jessie (photo: Rob Whitney)The 'Western Race Tour' as I like to call it came to an end today. It has been a great start to the season with 8 ra...
CXC Elite Team post race in Silver Star, BC Garrott, Gus, Bryan, Brian, Caitlin, Jennie, Brooke, Jason, and Jessie (photo: Rob Whitney)The 'Western Race Tour' as I like to call it came to an end today. It has been a great start to the season with 8 ra...
CXC Elite Team post race in Silver Star, BC Garrott, Gus, Bryan, Brian, Caitlin, Jennie, Brooke, Jason, and Jessie (photo: Rob Whitney)The 'Western Race Tour' as I like to call it came to an end today. It has been a great start to the season with 8 ra...
a href=http://www.beccarorabaugh.com/Becca_Rorabaugh/Blog/Entries/2010/12/19_Rossland_Wrap_Up_files/IMG_4129.jpgimg src=http://www.beccarorabaugh.com/Becca_Rorabaugh/Blog/Media/object001_3.jpg style=float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:216px; height:123px;//aSo we are in the airport in Spokane, headed home for christmas. It’s so crazy to be done with period one racing! After three days straight of waking up and racing, I woke up today expecting to get ready and race again. I was a little surprised at myself considering how tired I was before the race yesterday, but I think that’s a good thing because I am not sick of racing, and will be rip roarin’ ready for nationals. br/br/Yesterday was a mixed bag of results. Jessie Diggins pulled out some crazy classic skiing and blew both Holly Brooks and Sadie Bjornsen out of the water. Jessie had the fastest time of the day by over twenty seconds! APU girls still kicked butt though, with the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th fastest times of the day. Morgan Smyth’s time was 2nd, and Sadie’s was 3rd, And I was 5th. Holly was showing a little wear and tear from the weekend, but still had the 6th fastest time. So if it had been a 10k classic interval start race we would have essentially taken 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th places. However, our places in the overall mini-tour were not quite as good. The hot tub afterwards was quite good though!br/br/The boy’s race was much more pack-oriented than ours, and there was almost a ten person lead pack for most of it. Lars was hanging in there in second for most of it, but just wasn’t able to make the overspeed final kilometers to the finish. He wound up fourth overall.br/br/After packing and travel waxing up a storm last night, we left Rossland at 7am. Today is going to be an airport day, and I should be into Anchorage at around 8:15pm! Look out Alaska, here I come!
After much waiting and base training, it was time last weekend to pack the race boards and put things to the first test of the year. Rossland, British Columbia was the site last weekend of a North American Cup race, and a notable one at that. The skate...
(Ed. note: Ignore the date of this blog. Pretend it was posted one week ago...)br /br /Training here in the Methow has been going splendidly. We've been hit with the biggest snowstorm since 1996, the "Year Of The Shovel", and the trails are in fine con...
Craftsbury, VT – While much of New England waits for skiable snow, over 300 of the fastest cross-country ski racers took to the 1.3K sprint course at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center today to contest the first TD Bank Eastern Cup of the season. A member of Craftsbury’s own team, the Green Racing Project’s Tim Reynolds and junior skier Skyler Davis from Stratton Mountain School were the men’s favorites heading into the day’s sprint. On the...
The La Clusaz mass starts were great races, though surprising in lots of ways. I didn't expect Northug to be playing his A- game (second!), and I didn't expect either Kalla or Hellner to be playing their C- games (14th and 29th, respectively). Seeing N...
a href=http://www.beccarorabaugh.com/Becca_Rorabaugh/Blog/Entries/2010/12/18_Second_day_Rossland_files/DSC_1688.jpgimg src=http://www.beccarorabaugh.com/Becca_Rorabaugh/Blog/Media/object000_2.jpg style=float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:216px; height:123px;//aWell, that was fun. It was a totally perfect day for a skate race in Rossland. The trails were very fast, and the temperature was around 20º. Times were very fast and very tight, the top five women and the top five men were separated by only eleven seconds. br/br/Holly kicked butt, as usual, winning the day. Sadie also had a good one, ending up in 5th, while Fitz pulled out her skate skillz and got 4th. Morgan and I were 11th and 10th respectively. American women made up eight of the top ten, so it was a good day for the US!br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/In the guy’s race Lars Flora got the win, over a very tough Canadian field. Only four americans made the top 10, but APU’s Brent Knight and Mark Iverson had some of their best distance races so far finishing 14th and 15th (6th and 7th Americans). James Southam got 11th, 5th American.br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/Tomorrow is going to be exciting! The start list is at a href=https://www.zone4.ca/results.asp?id=3266zone4.ca/a and it’s fun to look at. There are some good speculations to be made! Will Holly hold off Sadie? Can Lars take the two canadians?br/The only way to know is to find out tomorrow...