From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.
And the Winners Are: ‘In The Zone’ Ugly Photo Contest
We’ve all been there. A bad race, bad moment, or maybe it was a really good race with really bad photo timing. Whatever the case may be, we asked for your best worst-looking submissions and here are the best of the lot! (Photos appear in no particular order.)
Winners: Eli Brown’s zombie apocalypse and Hallie Grossman’s bloody nose
“Nordic Zombie Apocalypse”
in below-zero blizzard conditions at the 50 k Noquemanon in 2014 in Marquette, Mich. (Photo: Frances Upton)
How can you beat this photo of Hallie in a 5 k junior mass start at 2013 Senior U.S. nationals at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah?
Farnum 5.5-mile trail race last September in Lebanon, N.H.
“Stadium sprint” in the 2016 NENSA Eastern High School Championship classic sprint.
2011 EISA Championships: “#nocaptionnecessary”
at the Dartmouth Carnival (Photo: Gil Talbot)
At the Mount Kearsarge Rollerski Race: “Where is the top of this friggen mountain!?”
Johanna Talihärm competing at the 2014 Olympics, where she finished 48th in the sprint.
BKL Festival in March 2012 at Great Glen, N.H.
2013 Marcialonga:
“Finally, it’s over…can I make it to the bag drop? “
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