Since my last post I’ve done the following races and gotten the following results:
Telemark SuperTour 10k Classic: 11th
Telemark SuperTour 15k Skate Mass Start: 18th
EISA Eastern Cup 10k Classic: 13th (20sec. out of third)
Mora Vasaloppet Eldris Sprints (Skate): 2nd
Mora Vasaloppet 58k Skate: 6th
Overall not results that I’m super excited about although I did feel strong in the Mora sprint and was really close to beating Birkie champ and recent top-30 world cup finisher Matt Liebsch. And it was nice to get $200 prize money for that, although I’d really like to get to where I can win so I can get the $1,000 paycheck for the 58k!! I managed to ski in 1st or 2nd place for the first 30k of that one, and then it got pretty tough. I was happy to make it to the finish line in Mora at all.
After doing so much traveling and racing it’s been tough to keep the momentum going but I’ve been lucky to have such a good home base here in VT to try and rest up.
Next up are the Madison SuperTour events. I leave for Madison tomorrow and will be racing on half a kilometer of manmade, trucked in snow on the downtown streets of Madison, WI, on capitol square. The events are a 9k skate criterium which is sure to be a cluster given the fact that the course is barely wide enough to roll a wheelbarrow down let alone hold a mass-start race (oh and by the way you have to do a 180 on a dime 4 times per kilometer!) followed by a Classic Sprint on Sunday, which I am looking forward to as it usually ends up being a double-pole-on-skate-skis type of classic sprint, and double poling is my favorite!
Still trying to decide whether to race the Birkie classic 54k next weekend, or just rest up in VT and get ready to take my best shot at winning the Great Race. I am definitely looking forward to being back in CA and enjoying some of that awesome sunny warm CA skiing!! Pictures from the President’s Cup made me want to get on a plane within the hour. Hope you are all enjoying it out there.
