The 2013 USSA SuperTour Finals get underway today with Team Check In and Official Training from 9:30 am – noon at Auburn Ski Club. Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins will be teaching girls 9 to 19 at Fast and Female XC Ski CHAMP Camp at 1:30 at Auburn Ski Club while their parents can learn [...]
The USSA SuperTour finals are the premier cross country ski races in the US, held annually in the spring so that the top American skiers can return from the FIS World Cups to compete with 200+ of our nation’s best domestic cross county skiers. The SuperTour finals are a mini-tour of four races that cap [...]
Fast and Female Tuesday, April 2, 2013 1:30 pm to 4:30 pmAuburn Ski Club Training Center Fast and Female is a non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment through sport of young women ages 9 to 19. By partnering with female olympians, they offer inspiring programming all over North-America. Through their non-competitive and fun initiatives, they strive [...]
Glide the Divide (North Routt Coureur des Bois), Steamboat Springs, CO This year’s start-finish was at Columbine, about an hour’s drive north of Steamboat. A 6 km spur (out and back) connects the start-finish to the main 45 km loop at rest stop #1 (Little Red Park). There begins a very scenic clockwise loop that [...]
The final races of the 2013 Junior Nationals were the classic mass start competition. Congrats to Peter Holmes for his 2nd place finish in the MJ1 competition! 10k FOJ: Joelle Romo 24th15km MOJ: Patrick McElravey 13th, Alex Kopytko 47th, Branden Deeter 48th*10km FJ1: Katrin Larusson 14th, Bria Riggs 58th, Skyler Flora 60th, Danielle Nivinski 66th, [...]
The team awoke to -9 degree temps for todays freestyle sprints. The highlight result of the day was a 3rd place finish by Hannah Halvorsen for the J2 girls, a 4th place for Patrick McElravey in th OJ boys, and a 6th place by Dylan Syben in the J2 boys competition. Making the quarterfinals were [...]
In today’s classic 3 x 3.3 km relays FarWets Nordic’s MJ2 team of Dylan Syben, Julien Bordes, and Sam Zabell placed 5th and our MOJ team of Peter Holmes, Shane Christian, and Patrick McElravey took 7th. MJ2: Syben-Bordes-Zabell 5th, Herhusky-Mullings-Jobe 15thFJ2: Halvorsen-Larkins-Kirkeby 13thMJ1: Carroll-Vomund- A Deeter 21stMOJ: Holmes-Christuan-McElravey 7th, Kopytko-B Deeter-Wiltz 21stFOJ: Romo-Flora-Hartley 12thFJ1: Larusson-Riggs-Nivinski [...]
Monday, the first day of competition at the 2013 Junior Nationals, were the 5k/10k freestyle interval start races. The highlight results of the day were Patrick McElravey 5th MOJ, Katrin Larusson 6th FJ1, Peter Holmes 8th MJ1, Julien Bordes 8th MJ2, Dylan Syben 10th MJ2, and Hannah Halvorsen 10th FJ2. 10k MOJ: Patrick McElravey 5th, [...]
The 2013 Far West Nordic Junior National Team leaves for Fairbanks, Alaska this Friday March 8th. Meet the team and read their profiles on the Junior National Blog. The team will be posting updates and sharing their experiences. Cheer them on by commenting on their posts and liking them on facebook. GO FAR WEST! Schedule:Sunday March [...]
750 racers registered and 609 finished what turned out to be one of the most difficult Great Ski Races. A mixture of rain and wet snow made for a slow, sloppy course with the mist at the start turning to snow on the fiberboard freeway. Brian Gregg from Minneapolis was first with a time of [...]
