Yesterday was awesome... there is really no other way to describe it. Not only was it a great day for me, but it was a great day for our team. Lining up for the A final felt like a regular day at practice with 4 of the 6 girls in the final ...
Yesterday was awesome... there is really no other way to describe it. Not only was it a great day for me, but it was a great day for our team. Lining up for the A final felt like a regular day at practice with 4 of the 6 girls in the final ...
In her unlikely path from APU coach to elite ski racer, Holly Brooks’s career has taken her to some amazing places, namely the 2010 Olympics. But for all her success over the past two years, there was one spot she still hadn’t set foot until this weekend: the top step of the podium at the U.S. National Championships. In Sunday’s classic sprint in Rumford, Brooks checked another achievement off her list with an emphatic display...
APU’s Holly Brooks has been waiting all year to test herself against the eastern women—at least one of whom, Ida Sargent, raced on the World Cup this fall. If Sunday’s classic sprint qualifier results at nationals are the first measure, Brooks is on her way to acing that test. At Rumford’s Black Mountain, she skied to a three-second victory in the preliminary round over her teammate Sadie Bjornsen. Dartmouth’s Sophie Caldwell was third, with Morgan...
Despite traveling the farthest distance, few teams outnumber Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Club at the US Nationals in Rumford, Maine. And still, some worthy skiers are left at home.
I'll admit, the snow conditions in Rumford are a bit sketchy. Today during "race prep" I think we were skiing on an inch of compressed, translucent slush. The necessary tactics required a whole new set of agility.... the ability to dodge th...
I'll admit, the snow conditions in Rumford are a bit sketchy. Today during "race prep" I think we were skiing on an inch of compressed, translucent slush. The necessary tactics required a whole new set of agility.... the ability to dodge th...
I'll admit, the snow conditions in Rumford are a bit sketchy. Today during "race prep" I think we were skiing on an inch of compressed, translucent slush. The necessary tactics required a whole new set of agility.... the ability to dodge th...
Two thousand ten is coming to a close and I figured I'd better post about it before 2011! At the conclusion of the Rossland mini tour, our team dispersed to our relative locales for a short, one week break before resuming the racing season for US Natio...
Two thousand ten is coming to a close and I figured I'd better post about it before 2011! At the conclusion of the Rossland mini tour, our team dispersed to our relative locales for a short, one week break before resuming the racing season for US Natio...
Two thousand ten is coming to a close and I figured I'd better post about it before 2011! At the conclusion of the Rossland mini tour, our team dispersed to our relative locales for a short, one week break before resuming the racing season for US Natio...
With 15 titles over the past decade, Kikkan Randall has turned the U.S. National Championships into something of a one-woman show. In the 2010 edition, which was held in her hometown of Anchorage, she swept all four events—collecting nearly $5,000 en route to wins in two distance races and a pair of sprints. This year, the country’s fastest women will assemble at Black Mountain in Rumford, ME. But when the first event of the championships...
While racers on the World Cup have voiced concern over the mini tour format following the FIS World Cup mini-tour in Kuusamo, Finland, earlier this season, North American racers overwhelmingly welcome the format.
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...
“Jessie Diggins basically blew by us on the last lap,” said Holly Brooks, who was leading the tour Sunday morning. Sadie Bjornsen (APUNSC) also gapped Brooks at the end, and left Brooks in third place for the overall Nor-Am minitour.
Holly Brooks (APU) followed up her second place in Friday’s sprint with an 8.2-second victory over Jessie Diggins (CXC Elite) in the women’s 5 k freestyle on the second day of the Rossland NorAm mini-tour. With extremely fast conditions, Brooks flew around the course in just over 12 minutes. “I knew it was going to be fast,” said Brooks, “but I didn’t know it would be that fast.” Diggins’ CXC teammate, Caitlin Compton, finished third,...
Women's podium left to right: Caitlin Compton, Holly (me) & Jessie DigginsIt was a fast and furious 5k race today! Perhaps the fastest 5k that I've ever raced with a final time of 12:06! The course skied like two big intervals with lots...
Women's podium left to right: Caitlin Compton, Holly (me) & Jessie DigginsIt was a fast and furious 5k race today! Perhaps the fastest 5k that I've ever raced with a final time of 12:06! The course skied like two big intervals with lots...
As the competition heats up on the second day of the NorAm mini-tour here is a quick look back at yesterday’s sprint race through the lens of Rob Whitney.
With Friday’s skate sprint opener at the Rossland mini-tour serving as a winner-takes-all qualifying race for the Canadian World Championships team, smart money said that the Canucks would come out swinging. And they did—at least one of them. After sneaking through her quarter- and semi-final heats, Perianne Jones (Canadian National B-Team) roared out of the start in the finals, intent on staying out of trouble and keeping her Oslo dreams from sliding away in a...