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On Monday morning we woke up to a day of easy travel to Gallivare, Sweden, the first World Cup stop of the season. After a leisurely breakfast of the usual spread of oatmeal, breads, jams, fruits, pickles, cheeses, mini Finnish pancakes, yogurt, muesli...

On Monday morning we woke up to a day of easy travel to Gallivare, Sweden, the first World Cup stop of the season. After a leisurely breakfast of the usual spread of oatmeal, breads, jams, fruits, pickles, cheeses, mini Finnish pancakes, yogurt, muesli...

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So you imagine when you are headed off to the World Cup, everything is going to be very well organized and taken care of.  But in reality you could find yourself in the middle of Lapland in a mini van whose gas light has been on for close to two hours with only a handwritten [...]

This past weekend was chock full of racing in Finland, Norway and Sweden.  There’s way too much for me to analyze, even looking at just the North Americans, so I’m going to focus in on just a few performances that I found particularly interesting.  Even so, this post will be quite long. Results ranged from [...] Related posts:

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While 66% of the MOD Squad is duking it out over the pond in Norway, I've been focusing these last few weeks on rebuilding strength and fitness following having mono, which I estimate lost me about a month and a half of training.br /br /So far things h...

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In the past eight days I have been able to check something off my life list four-times over: racing in Europe. Check! It has been an exciting experience, to say the least. Watching Olympic medalists and World Cup regulars train and then starting in the same races as them has been pretty amazing. Today marked the [...]

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Day One.  Made myself a new pair of rock skis on the Plateau this morning, but still pretty sweet to be skiing on snow.  Even cooler to be getting snow reports from folks back home in Hayward and Minneapolis. The ground is frozen and it won’t take much more snow to make the skiing a lot [...]

A snow gun going full-blast in Canmore trying to make up for a snow-less November.I thought this post would be a hello from Canmore, Alberta, Canada, where USBA is currently having it's on-snow camp and December World Cup/IBU Cup trials. However, it i...