February 2013

As promised, here is the update with all the details from last weekend’s team sprint race at World Champs that Kikkan and I won! It was a historic win and the first Gold medal US Cross Country skiing has ever won. And it took such a big team of people…

Today was the individual start 10km skate race, and something awesome happened – Liz got 5th place!!!!! I couldn’t be happier or more psyched for her. She is such a hard worker, and I was so darn excited to see this breakthrough and get to cheer for her at the…

Hey everybody, I just wanted to say THANKS SO MUCH for all the kind words, especially the congrats from those of you who have believed in me and cheered for our team before the results came in. It means so much to me! I really appreciate all the emails, facebook and twitter posts coming in…

Alrighty people…for those of you who haven’t yet heard, Sarah Hendrickson won the Gold yesterday in women’s ski jumping!!! She is now the World Champion, and everyone on the team is so excited for her, proud of her, pumped for the jumpers team, thrilled that their coach, Paolo Bernardi, is…

Today is the first day of the World Championships here in Val di Fiemme, Italy! The excitement in the air is so thick you can feel it. Everyone has so much excess energy from tapering training and resting up. I’m not racing the classic sprint today (or Saturday’s skiathalon, either,…

Yesterday after the race, everyone except for the men’s distance racers packed up and drove from Davos to Predazzo, Italy. I’m really happy to be here, in the same hotel we stayed at for the Tour, because it’s cozy and it’s a really fun town to be living in for the next…

The locals here said that they’re not getting a ton of sunny bluebird days this winter, but even so – Davos is amazing, beautiful skiing with tons of snow! It’s like this winter wonderland, complete with a main street full of cafes and good waffles. This post will mainly be…

The US team had an absolute blast making this music video to Taylor Swift’s song “I Knew You Were Trouble”. Check it out! Make sure you watch it all the way to the end….the last few seconds of the out-take are really funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0zD8dAguIk&feature=youtu.be In other news, the US Ski…

Wow, the training and living and just EXISTING here in Davos has been amazing! I’m super pumped to be here and I feel so lucky to get to train on amazing trails in the mountains, with sunshine and powder days. I’ll definitely be getting more Davos updates out soon, with…

Ok, kidding, we’re not living on a rock. It’s a mountain! But still, if you’re not into traveling up and down every day, there’s a lot of living in-house. I wish I could say the pictures I have of camp life are wicked exciting, but mostely everything here is the…