This was such a crazy weekend! Both the 15km mass start classic and the 4x5km relay were great opportunities to work on mental toughness and dig deep. Our team as a whole didn’t have a great day in the classic, and everyone was pretty smoked at the end of the race….

 Rybinsk was awesome (except for when you were dealing with frostbite!) and I’m super glad we went. Kershaw won the first race of the weekend: a 15km skate, which was just so cool to see, and I had a career best 5th place in the women’s 10km skate. Which was some kind of crazy and…

Moscow is COLD! And racing here is even colder…but apparantly, that’s good news if you’re from team USA! Yesterday’s sprint race was the best race of my life, and it was a great day for the women’s team. Race day was warm enough to race, but that was about it….

 If a picture’s REALLY worth 10,000 words, that’s good…because I’m writing none!        

OK – updated version! Otepaa was so fun! However, my favorite part of the weekend was cheering on the coaches. The night before the sprints, there were servicemen relays. Every country got to field a team of 3 wax techs, and they did a shortened version of the sprint course…

OhMyGosh I LOVE my job! This past weekend I got to ski in my second and third World Cup races ever, and be Kikkan’s partner in the team sprint where we made history with Canada in getting the first two North American teams on the podium! So cool!    The…