Jessie

Well, my friends, it’s April 14th and am I training yet? Nope! I’m still smack-dab in the middle of a phenomenon I like to call the “April Attitude”, where I’m happy with the season that has come and gone and not yet ready to contemplate starting another one! I’m starting…

Spring Series, SuperTour finals, US Distance Nationals…whatever you want to call it, it’s always one of those bittersweet things. Everyone is excited to be there racing one last time, and getting to hang out with all the skiers from every club team. But also feeling (at least, for me) pretty…

Whooooooeeee! That was a big, big end to the season with 8 races right in a row like that! I won’t recap each race, but here are some highlights from the tour…things that really stood out for me. I’ll be letting the photos tell most of the story. THE CROWD.  The…

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…

I set out for a ski this morning in Sjusjøen with every intention of not getting lost…but then…well…oops! It was just an incredible day of skiing by myself, out on these perfect trails with new snow. The best part is that we’re here all week for a training camp, so I’ll…

We are wrapping up a fantastic week of training here in Seiser Alm with the Tour de Ski crew. The first few days after the tour ended, we just focused on recovery. That, and finally washing all our clothes (gross). Then we drove up to the Dolomite mountains, to one…

After the Tour de Ski ended, the only emotion I felt more than fatigue was overwhelming happiness! It felt so good to be done with the challenge of mentally and physically racing your hardest each day, but it also felt so good to have accomplished some big, big goals of…