January 2011

Holy cow, today’s been an absolutely huge day! With 4 races going on I have no idea how the coaches and wax techs kept up with it all! First we had the junior women’s 4×3.3km relay, in which we finished 7th. I’m so totally excited because we moved up a…

Today was a solid day for the US junior women. We had a 12th (me), 24th (Reid), 40th (Glen), and 50th (Mooney)! With 78 girls racing, I’m proud to have all our girls in the top 50. The guys finished 35th (Patterson), 43rd (Cartwright), 51st (Dougherty), and 56th (Kornfield). Kornfield…

This was an interesting post for me to write; I really had to sit down and think before typing. But this is important for me to say because I’ve always been the kind of athlete that wants to do more, more, more, and it’s hard to admit it but I…

Junior World Championships kicked off today with the 5km/10km freestyle race. It was super exciting what with all the athletes from every country here ready to rip around the challenging courses and kick some butt! Going into today’s race, I was super nervous, and had a ton of jittery energy….

The past week in Finland has been great; good snow, good trails, good lodging…but now it’s time to get to Estonia, where the races are! After driving down to Helsinki, we boarded a ferry that took us across the Baltic Sea and docked in Tallinn, Estonia. I’m actually pretty disappointed…

I realize I haven’t updated in a while (sorry about that); so here’s what’s been going on. After Nationals in Maine, I flew home for a quality 6 days in which I hung out with my little sister, got caught up on work and laundry, and then packed up to…

At the moment, I’m sitting on my hotel room bed in Vierumaki, Finland (pronounced vee-roo-mah-kee…I think!). But before leaving home I got the awesome opportunity to visit the 3-5th graders at Pleasantview Elementary School, up in Sauk Rapids, MN. It was so much fun to be able to share pictures,…

I’m so psyched on today! Not only did my little sister Mackenzie get to race her first Mesabi invite race (the biggest high school race in the US – Go Stillwater!!!), I got to experience the best sprint race of my life! (pictures from Erik Fagerstrom, Ian Harvey, and Fasterskier)….

It’s truly amazing what a few days of colder weather, a couple snow guns, and a lot of hardworking volunteers can do to a racecourse! I’m super impressed with how we now have a 2.5 km loop that’s well covered and groomed, and every day I’ve seen people out shoveling…

Hello from Rumford, Maine! Where the smokestacks create a truly interesting smell throughout town, where the restaurants kick butt and where Mother Nature kicks our butt. We’ve been challenged by a lack of snow and extremely warm temperatures which melted a lot of the existing snow. There were some volunteers…