St. Olaf Nordic Team

My oh my, apologies on not getting blog posts up for a while! The team has been racing every weekend, and the editor may or may not have had a concussion and couldn't look at screens for a while... oops. So. Here's the recap of what we missed.. (More blog posts with details later possibly?) CCSA CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Men's Classic 10k Women's Classic 5k Men's Skate 20k Women's Skate 15k CCSA REGIONALS Men's Classic 10k Women's Classic 5k Men's Skate 15k Women's Skate 10k D TEAM MADISON SPRINTS Classic Qualifier Skate Sprint SLUSH RUSH 10k Skate, Classic BIRKIE Birkie Results So. The varsity team is currently racing in Sun Valley, Idaho (possibly one of the most gorgeous places we will ski at in our lifetime) at USCSA Nationals. It's kind of like DIII Nationals, and we go because our alpine team qualifies and we can score together with them as a large team. Plus it's an awesome way to end out the seas...

Part of being an all-around good skier is the ability to adapt to different styles and lengths of racing, sometimes within the same weekend of racing. Skiing a 15/20k and racing in a sprint heat take different technical skills, amounts of speed and power, and race attitudes, but both demand the same amount of effort. So it's important to switch up race formats when possible. Last weekend the Varsity made the 8 hour drive to race at Al Quaal in Marquette, Michigan.  Saturday we raced sprints, with a qualifier then semi and final heats.  For a few it was a learning experience, and everyone was able to focus on technical or strategic aspects of the races.  Nora and Paige both qualified for the heats in 16th and 18th, respectively. Nora raced a tough semi and finished 17th, and Paige made it through to the B final, finishing in 9th.  Sprints are a good chance to push your body to the limit and experience speed you normally wouldn't be able to reach in a distance race, ...

Here's a few pictures of the D-Team racing at Theodore Wirth in the second weekend of the Tour de Twin Cities last weekend!