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Petra Majdic won today’s 30K classic race in Trondheim, Norway. With this win Majdic continues to show that she is one of the best skiers in the world, also placing first in Thursday’s sprint. After a third place on Thursday, Polish skier Justyna Kowalcyz placed second behind Majdic’s time of 1:25:22 with a time of 1:25:33, in a close finish with Japan’s Ishida Masako in 1:25:34. Majdic skied relatively slow throughout the race, falling to 10th place...

Hi Everyone, This one’s going to be short because I’m on my way to Vancouver soon and I have to pack!  Just wanted to let everyone know how the World Championships went in South Korea. After a year of physical and mental preparation, it was great to see the work pay off in Pyeong Chang.  I started [...]

Well, the good news is that by throwing down the gauntlet on Chris, he made some of his best predictions of the year. The bad news is that I scored a 63 (the worst you could possibly do is only 100!)I'm still wondering what thought process led me to discount Petra after I watched a video about how she can actually skate sprint this year, or why I thought a Finnish skate-sprint-specialist racing

COLINI've been watching with much amusement as Chris hopelessly tries to predict the outcome of each World Cup race. Outside of men's sprinting (which used to be the unpredictable event, weird), it's been a total crapshoot, and Chris's utter inability to pick anything right speaks to that. But then again -- this is the same guy who picked Astrid Jacobsen to win the world cup this year, so it

"Even though the sport inspires magic, it's magicians need the latitude to be human." -A friend after a hard day.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/Sar0lVwJzwI/AAAAA...

Challenging and scenic mountain half-marathon run on historic Mulholland Drive fire road.  8th annual.  Awards, 1st through 3rd place in 5-year divisions; Sponsor donated prizes to first place age division winners; t-shirts; finisher medals; free runners raffle.  A Road Runner Club of America Championship Race.  A Trail Runner Magazine Trophy Series Race. BULLDOG 50K ULTRA RUN – AUGUST 22, 2009 Challenging and scenic 50K course on fire roads and trails in mountainous terrain with spectacular...