February 2016

The sprint day was a total blast. I talk a lot about skiing being fun and I know many of you out there are rolling your eyes…”how can being nervous hours before the start, racing your absolute hardest and pushing yourself to the point of throwing up after a race…

The past weekend of racing in Falun was a ton of fun for me. I have great memories from racing at the venue here, not just from World Championships last year but from World Cup finals in years before. The courses are challenging, especially with the Mörderbacken “killer hill”, but…

From here on out, the racing gets pretty fast and furious. Last wednesday we raced a city sprint in Drammen, Norway, then on the weekend raced 50/30km classic races at the famous Holmenkollen venue in Oslo. We have another mid-week city sprint coming up in Stockholm, Sweden before we race…

The training camp over the past week in Sjusjøen really could not have gone any better! I’m totally happy and satisfied with the training load that I got to do and it felt like a great balance between the long, fun get-lost-in-the-woods type of adventures that I wanted and the amount…