Category: XCFeeds

Today the CXC Team had their first win of the season with Tad Elliott dominating the men’s race by 14 seconds!  Bryan finished 14th place in a tight group with less than 30 seconds out of the money (which is top 6).  A good start to the season.  Garrott Kuzzy took 6th on his birthday.  […]

Today the CXC Team had their first win of the season with Tad Elliott dominating the men’s race by 14 seconds!  Bryan finished 14th place in a tight group with less than 30 seconds out of the money (which is top 6).  A good start to the season.  Garrott Kuzzy took 6th on his birthday.  […]

Today the CXC Team had their first win of the season with Tad Elliott dominating the men’s race by 14 seconds!  Bryan finished 14th place in a tight group with less than 30 seconds out of the money (which is top 6).  A good start to the season.  Garrott Kuzzy took 6th on his birthday.  […]

Happy Thanksgiving!  The racing season is off and running:

• We kicked things off with race snapshot graphs of the opening weekend World Cup races in Gällivare, Sweden, which I subsequently improved to include a focus on the particular technique used in that race.  Thanks to the several commenters who requested the change.
• I delved a bit deeper into the results for a variety of North Americans and also some of the Europeans.
• A special holiday post examining some data on the notion of “Thanksgiving Turkeys” in the realm of XC ski racing.
• As the Kuusamo Nordic Opener gets rolling in Finland this weekend, we had the race snapshot graphs for today’s classic sprint.

Race snapshots will continue through the weekend with each WC race.  Things to look forward to next week:

• Previews of the US biathlon team, along with race snapshot graphs for the kickoff of the biathlon WC season.
• Recaps of the Kuusamo WC races and also perhaps the West Yellowstone SuperTour races.
• If you thought that SkiTrax and Fasterskier could post a press release talking about a compartment syndrome survey, in which they use a bunch of fancy-shmancy statistical language like “p-values” and that I wouldn’t comment on it, well, you clearly don’t know me very well.  I have a lot to say about that survey.

Related posts:

1. <Week In Review: Friday, June 11th
2. <Week In Review: Friday Oct 22nd
3. <Week In Review: Friday Nov 5th

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 After last Sunday’s race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.
This was my first European World Cup race of my life!
This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a tough double polling finish.
I had one goal today, and that was to qualify.
The night before the race, I spent some time looking at classic sprint videos from Kuusamo from the year before. I was able to see how the best sprinters in the world ski this course. This really helped me, I had a good game plan and was ready to test it out.
I wasn’t feeling very nervous for this race. It was really weird actually. I woke up in the morning and felt like it was just another day. Maybe since it was my first Euro WC race, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Anyways, after a long cold warm-up(-17C), I was ready to tear this course up. I felt great during the qualifier, I saved a bit of jam for the last giant uphill and skied the last part of the course really well. I was pumped to hear over the loudspeaker that I crossed the finish line in 16th place. I ended up 19th after all the skiers had finished!
It was a really close race, I was about a second from both the top 10 and 30th place. Pretty crazy.
4 other Canadians qualified for the heats! Alex 9th!, Stef 26th, Devon30th, and Dasha.
new Canadian record to have 5 canadians finish in the top 30? could be…

I had a tough quarter-final heat. It was a fast and close heat, it came down to the wire at the end. I was in a sprint finish with 3 other guys. But because I came around the last corner in last I was not able to make the pass. I fell a couple feet short of moving on to the next round. It was a tough way to end the day. Alex ended up moving on to the semis and finishing 9th overall! Awesome to see live!
I am getting ready to race day 3 of the 3 day mini tour. Tomorrow is a 10km classic race. They are calling for -22C overnight.

 After last Sunday’s race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.
This was my first European World Cup race of my life!
This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a tough double polling finish.
I had one goal today, and that was to qualify.
The night before the race, I spent some time looking at classic sprint videos from Kuusamo from the year before. I was able to see how the best sprinters in the world ski this course. This really helped me, I had a good game plan and was ready to test it out.
I wasn’t feeling very nervous for this race. It was really weird actually. I woke up in the morning and felt like it was just another day. Maybe since it was my first Euro WC race, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Anyways, after a long cold warm-up(-17C), I was ready to tear this course up. I felt great during the qualifier, I saved a bit of jam for the last giant uphill and skied the last part of the course really well. I was pumped to hear over the loudspeaker that I crossed the finish line in 16th place. I ended up 19th after all the skiers had finished!
It was a really close race, I was about a second from both the top 10 and 30th place. Pretty crazy.
4 other Canadians qualified for the heats! Alex 9th!, Stef 26th, Devon30th, and Dasha.
new Canadian record to have 5 canadians finish in the top 30? could be…

I had a tough quarter-final heat. It was a fast and close heat, it came down to the wire at the end. I was in a sprint finish with 3 other guys. But because I came around the last corner in last I was not able to make the pass. I fell a couple feet short of moving on to the next round. It was a tough way to end the day. Alex ended up moving on to the semis and finishing 9th overall! Awesome to see live!
I am getting ready to race day 3 of the 3 day mini tour. Tomorrow is a 10km classic race. They are calling for -22C overnight.

 After last Sunday’s race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.
This was my first European World Cup race of my life!
This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a tough double polling finish.
I had one goal today, and that was to qualify.
The night before the race, I spent some time looking at classic sprint videos from Kuusamo from the year before. I was able to see how the best sprinters in the world ski this course. This really helped me, I had a good game plan and was ready to test it out.
I wasn’t feeling very nervous for this race. It was really weird actually. I woke up in the morning and felt like it was just another day. Maybe since it was my first Euro WC race, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Anyways, after a long cold warm-up(-17C), I was ready to tear this course up. I felt great during the qualifier, I saved a bit of jam for the last giant uphill and skied the last part of the course really well. I was pumped to hear over the loudspeaker that I crossed the finish line in 16th place. I ended up 19th after all the skiers had finished!
It was a really close race, I was about a second from both the top 10 and 30th place. Pretty crazy.
4 other Canadians qualified for the heats! Alex 9th!, Stef 26th, Devon30th, and Dasha.
new Canadian record to have 5 canadians finish in the top 30? could be…

I had a tough quarter-final heat. It was a fast and close heat, it came down to the wire at the end. I was in a sprint finish with 3 other guys. But because I came around the last corner in last I was not able to make the pass. I fell a couple feet short of moving on to the next round. It was a tough way to end the day. Alex ended up moving on to the semis and finishing 9th overall! Awesome to see live!
I am getting ready to race day 3 of the 3 day mini tour. Tomorrow is a 10km classic race. They are calling for -22C overnight.

 After last Sunday’s race in Rovaniemi, our team hit the road on our way to the Kuusamo WC mini-tour starting on friday.
This was my first European World Cup race of my life!
This course suited me really well, it had two really big climbs and a tough double polling finish.
I had one goal today, and that was to qualify.
The night before the race, I spent some time looking at classic sprint videos from Kuusamo from the year before. I was able to see how the best sprinters in the world ski this course. This really helped me, I had a good game plan and was ready to test it out.
I wasn’t feeling very nervous for this race. It was really weird actually. I woke up in the morning and felt like it was just another day. Maybe since it was my first Euro WC race, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Anyways, after a long cold warm-up(-17C), I was ready to tear this course up. I felt great during the qualifier, I saved a bit of jam for the last giant uphill and skied the last part of the course really well. I was pumped to hear over the loudspeaker that I crossed the finish line in 16th place. I ended up 19th after all the skiers had finished!
It was a really close race, I was about a second from both the top 10 and 30th place. Pretty crazy.
4 other Canadians qualified for the heats! Alex 9th!, Stef 26th, Devon30th, and Dasha.
new Canadian record to have 5 canadians finish in the top 30? could be…

I had a tough quarter-final heat. It was a fast and close heat, it came down to the wire at the end. I was in a sprint finish with 3 other guys. But because I came around the last corner in last I was not able to make the pass. I fell a couple feet short of moving on to the next round. It was a tough way to end the day. Alex ended up moving on to the semis and finishing 9th overall! Awesome to see live!
I am getting ready to race day 3 of the 3 day mini tour. Tomorrow is a 10km classic race. They are calling for -22C overnight.