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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

6.12.13 Summer Training

Hi MYSL kids! I’m writing to you from Park City, Utah. It’s another beautiful hot sunny day – and it hasn’t rained once since I got here, almost 2 weeks ago! I feel like I am living in Paradise. I am sharing a condo up in Empire Village with my teammates, which is at 8,100 feet of elevation. Compare that to the average elevation of Minnesota – 1,200ft, and I’m basically living 6,900 feet in the air above Minnesota! When you’re higher up, it’s much harder to breathe, and until my body adjusted it felt like I was trying to breathe through a straw. Try it sometime – it’s pretty tough, especially once you try climbing up the stairs!

5.23.13 I'm Back

I’m back! After a short break to rest and recover from last season’s racing, training and fun times on skis has started up again, and so has the MYSL blog.

I’ll be writing every month during the summer, and a couple times a month during the race season.

3.15.13 World Champs Recap

This is my last post for you for a little while, so it’s a longer one. I want to share with you the story from World Championships, where Kikkan and I won the Gold medal in the skate team sprint race. It was a big deal for the USA because it’s the first gold our country has ever won at a World Champs!

2.24.13 World Champion in the house!

2.24.13 World Champions in the house. This is Jessie's latest post, written the day before she became the World Champion in the Team Sprint with Kikkan Randall. -AC

Hello MYSL Kids! This week something pretty special and exciting is going on
– the World Championship races! Everybody knows that the Olympics are held every 4 years, but the World Champs is every 2 years – the year before and the year after the Olympics. This year the World Championship series is in Val di Fiemme (where I wrote to you from the Tour de Ski) and once again the US Ski Team is staying in Predazzo, a town near the race courses. There are Ski Jumping events, Nordic Combined (ski jumping + cross-country skiing) and Cross Country races.

2.10.13 I Knew You Were Trouble

Star Tribune article about Jessie from 2/8/13 http://www.startribune.com/sports/190315491.html

Hey MYSL Kids! Last time I wrote to you, I was in Russia, checking out the Olympic venue for next year’s Winter Games.

It was very exciting and different to be in a country with some customs that are similar, and some totally different than ours. I raced twice last weekend; the skate sprint, and the 15km skiathalon.

1.29.13 Sochi Preview

This post is written to you from Sochi, Russia – the longest city in the world! It runs along the black sea, and I’m staying up on top of a mountain, at the ski venue where the 2014 Olympics will be held next year.

1.14.13 The Hill Climb

Last time I wrote to you was the first day of the Tour De Ski, and I was in Oberhof, Germany. Now I am writing from Predazzo, a small twisty-turning town in Italy, in the Val di Fiemme (a big beautiful valley in the mountains with many other small towns). Well, the Tour is finished, and I am a very tired but happy skier!

12.29.12 Tour de Ski

Hello MYSL Kids! I'm writing to you from our hotel room in Oberhof, Germany, 3 hours before the start of the Tour de Ski! I flew over December 23rd and spent Christmas here in this little rainy city, which is the center of biathalon training for the German team.

12.19.12 Team Sprint Gold

Hello MYSL kids! The last two weekends were pretty exciting for North American skiers, with the World Cup races coming to Quebec City and Canmore, both in Canada. Although not every skier in the world came across the ocean to race, many of the best racers made the trip.

12.1.12 Relay Bronze

Hey MYSL kids! I'm writing to you from Ruka, Finland. Last week I was in Gallivare, Sweden, and some exciting things happened!

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