Raising The Level Of Cross-Country Skiing In America
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- Relationship Status:
- Married
- Which is your team? (CXC, APU, Nensa, Subaru, Fish/craft, etc.) that is, who do you cheer for?
- CXC
- What is your home club?
- Sisu Skiers
- Your top 5 favorite trails?
- Birkie
Balsam Branch
Battle Creek Winthrop
Elm Creek
Baker Park
- Your race schedule?
- 2008 Pre Loppet, Seeley Hills, Boulder Lake, Balsam Branch, Marine, COLL, Transjurassiene, Birkie, World & US Masters in Idaho
- What's your style?
- Better classical but very average in both disciplines. Very close to to 50/50 skate and classic time on snow.
- Your top 5 skiers in the world?
- Mieto, Wassburg, Svan, Dahle, Smirnoff (retro list)
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For the sake of comparison, I skied the ungroomed connector on the top of the ridge (from east to west)-I was trying to work a loop in the woods on the top of the hill. The difference between the two trail surfaces was substantial--needless to say I only did that one time.
Overall the base was in good shape, and F-A-S-T!!! Edging was decent enough on the flats and climbs, but just a little too firm for me to feel fully in control in some of the more technical sections---I rode the brakes a lot as I couldn't get a confident edge as often as I'd like.
Generally anything that was in the sun was fast, and anything in the shade is what you would expect for -5 degrees.
Hey, it's only -5 :)
I'm hoping things will be OK back in the woods and on the Ski Games Trail.
Hope to see you there!
This is my first of these sorts of on line social networks. I'll be interested to see if it lasts as long as, say, nordic-net (RIP) did.
I see you've been burning up the races these last few weeks. I, on the other hand, have found myself doing less training than any time in the last 6 months (and no racing). The way things are going, I'm not sure I'll race at all this year.