If you’ve ever placed 1,347th in the American Birkebeiner and felt you deserved as much attention and credit for your achievement as Kris Freeman does for a fourth place at World Championships, we’ve got a contest for you. Yes, we’ve got a way that you can be mentioned in the same breath as Andy Newell, Kikkan Randall, James Southam. And you don’t even have to break any anti-doping rules to do it. Nope—we’re not raffling...
For those FasterSkier readers who frequent the blogs section, you may have noticed that we have redesigned the FasterSkier Blog Homepage, bringing the overall look in line with the main site and providing more useful information. In the past the Blog Home merely listed all the blogs in order of most recent post, with the title of that post, and the blog’s description. The new design still features a list of blogs in the center...
Over the past few months we have added a number of new bloggers to the FasterSkier blogroll. Since the end of the winter, US Cross-Country Ski Team members Morgan Arritola and Morgan Smyth have joined the ring. Smyth scored the first World Cup points of career this season, and looks to build upon that success heading into the Olympics. A two-time National Champion and a member of the 2009 US World Championship Team, Smyth is...