Continuing on in the vein of my post yesterday recapping the WJC and U23 results for the last several years for the US and Canada, this post will do the same for Norway and Russia. As before, I’m plotting the finishing rank, or place, of each skier and then tracking the median result in red. [...] Related posts:
The King Boreas race returned to St. Paul after a lengthy absence. It is really nice to add another local race to the ski calendar. Being able to leave home at 9, race at 10 and be home by 11:15 is a huge plus. When you throw in the fact that the highl...
The King Boreas race returned to St. Paul after a lengthy absence. It is really nice to add another local race to the ski calendar. Being able to leave home at 9, race at 10 and be home by 11:15 is a huge plus. When you throw in the fact that the highl...
The King Boreas race returned to St. Paul after a lengthy absence. It is really nice to add another local race to the ski calendar. Being able to leave home at 9, race at 10 and be home by 11:15 is a huge plus. When you throw in the fact that the highl...
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A lot more than I can post here. It's a ten page newsletter with lots of good information. Take a look (click here).
A lot more than I can post here. It's a ten page newsletter with lots of good information. Take a look (click here).
A lot more than I can post here. It's a ten page newsletter with lots of good information. Take a look (click here).
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I had fun making those animated charts for World Cup points the other day, so I thought I’d try using the same charts to look at World Juniors. All I’ve done is tally up “World Cup” points for each nation and each year, scoring each (individual) race using the traditional WC point scale. Then I [...] Related posts:
a href=http://www.beccarorabaugh.com/Becca_Rorabaugh/Blog/Entries/2011/2/2_Latvija_files/IMG_0011.jpgimg src=http://www.beccarorabaugh.com/Becca_Rorabaugh/Blog/Media/object006.jpg style=float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:216px; height:123px;//a[Wednesday, post skate sprint] It was a fun day on the Scando cup today. I qualified 21st, which is decent but not awesome. The course was insanely short, and the times were a little over two minutes. Results can be found a href=http://www.infoski.lv/distancu-sleposana/rezultati/2009-2010-gada-sezona/here/a. The course basically consisted of a start stretch, a U-turn, another straightaway, a 15 second uphill, and winding overspeed to the finish. Once positions were established at the top of the hill in the heats, it was very rare for things to change over the second half of the course. I definitely took advantage of that in my heat. I had the choice of far inside or far outside lanes at the start, and I decided to take a chance on the inside lane. I figured that if I made it to the corner before or at the same time as the other girls, I was going to take the inside no matter what. My gung-ho attitude basically created a pile-up because I didn’t give them an inch in the U-turn and one of them stepped on my ski and we tangled. It wasn’t as bad as it sounds though because I got out of the tangle first, and essentially took bib numbers 10 and 11 out of the race. I need to work on my fast V1, I felt quite klutzy out there on the hill, so I don’t think I could have beat them to the top without a position advantage. With the advantage I was able to hold them off after the top of the hill and in the end I was third in my heat. I improved my place to 15th, which I think is quite respectable! In all I had a blast going head to head with such fast girls, and definitely gained some valuable racing experience. Cooling down I thought that my body felt more ready to race distance fast than sprint, so I was psyched for the subsequent 10k.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/[Thursday, post 10k skate] Well, maybe I jumped the gun in getting excited for distance racing. I felt okay warming up, maybe better going L2 than too fast, but when I was about to start I was sure that I was as ready as I was going to get. However, that would prove to be a little inaccurate. Basically, I felt like I was stuck in 4th gear. I wasn’t lollygaggin’ or anything, but I wasn’t jammin’ at 3000rpms in 5th either. And today, it would have been really nice to be at that level. As people passed me, I had a bit of difficulty hanging in there and being tough, but I think that I did what I could on the given day. However, I didn’t know that I was so close to Jennie Bender (we finished 2 seconds apart). I think that I could have been motivated by that, knowing that I wasn’t actually having a terrible race. It’s hard to tell if I should expect myself to keep up with the person who started behind me, or if that’s just part of the game here. So far, I guess it’s part of the game.br/br/Some fun Latvia shots: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/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/br/
Yesterday morning we drove from Otepaa, Estonia, to Madona, Latvia, where our next two races will be. All I knew about Latvia before today was that it is located directly below Estonia on a map. After driving through a relatively unpopulated country si...
Boreas was famed to have described Minnesota as a winter paradise. After racing the King Boreas 15km skate race at Phalen park, I believe there is no better descriptor than "winter paradise". The course was fun, well groomed, and gently rolling. Two la...
Boreas was famed to have described Minnesota as a winter paradise. After racing the King Boreas 15km skate race at Phalen park, I believe there is no better descriptor than "winter paradise". The course was fun, well groomed, and gently rolling. Two la...
Boreas was famed to have described Minnesota as a winter paradise. After racing the King Boreas 15km skate race at Phalen park, I believe there is no better descriptor than "winter paradise". The course was fun, well groomed, and gently rolling. Two la...
It’s a big ski weekend in Minneapolis. The City of Lakes Loppet is expecting over 10,000 skiers which might exceed Birkie numbers. And if that is not enough check out Caitlin and her dog Lahti. Caitlin and Lahti Click on this for the channel 5 Eyewitness News story and video on Caitlin. Brian is [...]
If garrottkuzzy.com is the only place you go for ski news, you might think that I’ve been taking a lot of rest days lately. On the contrary; I’ve been busier than ever and really enjoying some of the best skiing I can remember in the Midwest. I say the Midwest, because I’ve spent almost equal [...]
Todays Installment: Sharmila and Hannah...Wad up! We’re in Sweden! Today we said goodbye to Ostersund and left on our trek for Ornskoldsvik. The packing turned out to be quite an ordeal and may have taken longer than the actual car ride. We had to fi...
Todays Installment: Sharmila and Hannah...Wad up! We’re in Sweden! Today we said goodbye to Ostersund and left on our trek for Ornskoldsvik. The packing turned out to be quite an ordeal and may have taken longer than the actual car ride. We had to fi...