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K COUNTER TOP 10

Skier	Club	KM
Selah B	Woodland Wapiti	519.29
Jack K	Willow River	315.98
Ryan K	Willow River	301.48
Liam L	Lake Elmo	259
Zoe W	Wirth Saturdays	246.5
Finnian A	Carver SkiSparks	235
William M	Wild River	217
Eric O	Lake Elmo	191.4
Galen P	Hyland Lake	186.6
Soren L	Hiawatha SkiSparks	169.5

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The past two weeks, I have been training, traveling and racing in Norway. The first week I was just training, because we had a weekend off from World Cup racing. I drove with my teammates to Sjusjøen, which is where part of the Norwegian Birkiebeiner trails are. You might have heard of the American Birkie (and I bet your parents probably have!) but the Norwegian Birkie race is where it all started. There are hundreds of kilometers of groomed ski trails in Sjusjøen, and I only skied a fraction of them in the week that I stayed there.

2.1.16 Relay Hugs

Hi MYSL friends!

1.16.16 Reflections on a Big Win

Hey there MYSL skiers!

Since I last wrote to you, some very exciting things have happened! I finished the Tour de Ski in 10th place, and 6 of my teammates also completed every stage race and finished the Tour. Sophie Caldwell and I both won stages of the tour; Sophie won a classic sprint, and I won an individual start 5km skate race. It was such an exciting tour for our team. I’m going to walk you through the day and what it felt like to be the first American woman to win a modern day distance World Cup!

1.5.16 Tour de Ski

Hi speedy MYSL skiers!

You know what time of year it is? It’s time for the Tour de Ski! This is a really cool World Cup event that I look forward to every year. It’s also one of the hardest things you can ever compete in! The Tour is 8 races this year, and it’s spread out between 4 cities in 3 different countries.

12.28.15 Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays MYSL skiers!

I hope you all had a great Holiday break with your family and friends! I spent my Christmas in Davos, Switzerland, with my teammates. While I would very much like to go home and be with my family in Minnesota, it doesn’t work out with the Tour de Ski races starting on January 1st. There isn’t enough time for me to fly across the ocean, be home for a week and fly back in time to get ready to race these big World Cups that I want to do well in. So, I spent the holidays with my teammates, and talked a lot with my family on Skype! This is the fourth year I’ve done this, so I’m starting to get the hang of it. I’ll tell you a little bit about what I did this year on Christmas!

Life sized gingerbread house!

12.17.15 Relay Magic

Hello MYSL Skiers!

The last few weeks I’ve been in some pretty incredible places around Europe, racing the start of the World Cup season! The World Cup is the highest level of cross country ski racing, and skiers from countries all over the world (although mostly only the countries with natural snow) get together each weekend to compete. The first races were in Ruka, Finland, which is really far North and still in reindeer country! We like to call the race course in Ruka our “half-pipe course” because it looks like something you’d find in a snowboarding park. There’s two huge hills and you climb up one side, turn around and ski back down and then up the other side. The biggest downhill is really, really fast…and my friend on the French ski team said his GPS watch told him he got up to 73 kilometers per hour. That’s as fast as a car on the highway!

11.27.15 Watch me carefully!

Hi there MYSL skiers!
I hope you are all ready for snow, because I sure am excited to start the ski season! I’m writing to you about our training camp in Gällivare, which is in Sweden. It’s 100 kilometers North of the Arctic Circle, and there is no easy way to get there, especially from Minnesota! My travel day looked like this: I flew from Minneapolis to Amsterdam (Holland) from Amsterdam to Helsinki (Finland), and from Helsinki to Rovaniemi (also Finland), which is the official airport of Santa Claus! There’s a bunch of Holiday decorations in the airport and it’s a pretty big vacation destination for Finnish families. From the Rovaniemi airport we drove 3 hours to Gällivare, where we stayed in little houses on top of a mountain.

2.4.15 Hello from Switzerland

Hi MYSL skiers!

This time I’m writing to you from Davos, Switzerland! After the World Cup races in Norway, we traveled to Davos, and because there was no snow in most places in Europe, the World Cup races stayed in Davos for two weekends in a row. I can’t remember the last time that happened, but it’s getting harder to find snow every year it seems! It was challenging for the race organizers to make enough snow to cover the 5km race trail, so the army helped out. We saw hundreds of army guys in uniform running the snow guns, moving snow onto the trails and spreading it out. They were also in charge of security during the race and helped with parking. I guess since Switzerland doesn’t like to fight anybody the army gets to help out with ski races instead!

1.13.15 My Winter so Far

Hi MYSL kids!

I’m writing to you from Italy, where I am in a training camp after racing in the Tour de Ski. I want to share with you what I’ve been up to and the places I’ve been in the first part of the World Cup racing season, back in November! After packing up my duffel bag and ski bag for the winter, I hugged my family goodbye and left Minnesota. I won’t be back home until March, so I had to pack a bag for 5 months…the whole winter! Can you imagine being on the road for a whole winter? What would you bring with you? Of course I bring my skis, boots, poles and boots…but I also like to bring some books, some of my favorite snacks like peanut butter (they don’t have good peanut butter in Europe!) and some cards.

My first stop in Europe was way up north, in Muonio, Finland. I rejoined my US Ski Teammates, and we lived in little cabins in a tiny ski town. Muonio is above the Arctic Circle, so it was dark most of the day, but we got to see the Northern Lights one night! We stayed in Muonio for a week to train and get used to the different time zone, then we traveled to Ruka (also called Kuusamo), which is also in Finland for the first World Cup races of the year.

11.1.14 Snow Camp!

Happy November, MYSL skiers!

I’m writing to you from Canmore, Alberta, where we just finished up a camp on snow! I was up in Canada with the US Ski Team and my club team for 10 days to practice skiing on real snow instead of roller skiing before the racing season starts. Canmore has a huge ski area, and two winters ago I was there with the World Cup racers to compete on their super hilly and rocky trails.

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2.11.16 City Sprints

2.1.16 Relay Hugs

1.16.16 Reflections on a Big Win

1.5.16 Tour de Ski

12.28.15 Happy Holidays

12.17.15 Relay Magic

11.27.15 Watch me carefully!

2.4.15 Hello from Switzerland

1.13.15 My Winter so Far

11.1.14 Snow Camp!

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