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The classic race was a hairies day and I was on kick wax... just a frustrating experience.divbr //divdivbr //divdivFor the first time in my skiing career I was in there. The first half of the race classic skiing was just real comfortable. I had great s...
The ladies were under way today and tomorrow it's our turn. divbr //divdivThe courses here are beautiful. They are set around a hilltop overlooking the town and a really exposed which means it can get quite windy. Yesterday it was blowing hard and sno...
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Feeling much better. Whatever I had was super low level and today I skied for 90 minutes and felt more like myself. I still won't race tomorrow. There is way more to risk than to gain when getting over a little sickness and it rarely works out that you...
Travel over was pretty miserable. 12 hours of delays...divbr /divI was about to drop off my rental car in Boston after driving down from Vermont Monday when I fortunately got a call from Air France saying my 5:30 pm departure was moved to 9:30 pm since...
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Some footage from yesterday.divbr //divdivIt's dumping and blowing outside after raining and blowing all night. Today's could be a doozy.../divdivbr //divdivbr /object width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pVO7I4g7M...
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I'll get some pics up tonight but today was my first win of the season! It took a lap to get moving but I closed well and picked up 15 seconds on Lars who was second on the final lap. Now I've got to rest a bit and then go wax up skis since this trip I...
For the past ten days I have been getting back to work. Which means some HARD training. Since Christmas the training has really been pretty spotty. Super cold weather made the lead up to Nationals a lot easier that I had intended. Nationals being only ...
I got the word after the race today that I am heading to World Champs! They aren't for a month so I am off to Stowe, VT to train for the next few weeks before I head over. Annie and Hazel are heading back there later this week so it will be good to see...
22nd in a World Cup isn't too bad and I did get my first World Cup points. With the smaller field and a few guys in front that I normally beat it was a little frustrating. I started off a little more conservatively than I normally do and all was going ...
The first World Cup of the season is tomorrow. Today's sprint was a bit of a bummer for Team USA and APU with all but Newell getting knocked out in the quarter finals and Andy falling in the semi's. But all signs are positive for tomorrow. My pre-race ...
Another beautiful day in Whistler. Everyone was expecting the pretty nasty weather that is standard below the clouds here and are "challenging" waxing conditions. All the national teams and ski companies brought over the hairies skis with new base mate...
Skiing today at WOP (Whistler Olympic Park) was 45 degrees warmer than skiing in AK last week! The snow was pretty good relatively firm fast wet snow with the standard 10 minutes of wet snow to make it really slow skiing for a while. divbr //divdivThe...
Todays sprint was cancelled which means they will try to hold them tomorrow instead of the distance classic race. The organizers delayed a few times but it wasn't even close to -4 F out there. Tonight the World Junior and U23 World Champ teams are name...
After 3 postponements, todays race was finally cancelled. At the low point on the course it was -27 C at 1 pm (that's -16 F)! Lucky for me I only live a couple miles from the park and didn't have to hang out there all day. Instead I watched the new c...
Today went okay. I started a little conservative with my first split in 7th, then 6th, 5th, 4th by the end of the 1st lap and building. Winning was not in the cards with Kris skiing really well and me feeling good but not quite as sharp as I would have...
Birthdate: June 5, 1978 Hometown: Anchorage, AK Current Residence: Anchorage, AK Ski Club: APU Nordic Ski Center Height: 5’10” Weight: 151 lbs Best Results: 2006 Olympian, 2x National Champion Sponsors: Atomic, Swix, Toko, Skinny Raven Sports, Dedicated Athlete, Rudy Project, Altolab Website: jamessoutham.blogspot.com Full Interview When did you start ski racing, and what were some highlights of your young skiing career? I started as a freshman in high school after I got cut from the...