10km Skate
On Tuesday Compton competed in her first World Championship race, the 10km interval start skate race. Two laps of the brutal 5km course. Brutal. She claims her legs have never been so full of lactate and at the tops of the hills she could barely stand. And she was euphoric when she told me this. Euphoric.
The men race their 15km skate this afternoon.
Now we are looking forward to the 4x5km relay on Thursday where we will have...
1st classic- Kikkan Randall
2nd classic- Laura Valaas
3rd skate- Caitlin Compton
4th skate- Sarah Konrad
I am pretty excited. We each do two 2.5km laps (different laps for skate and classic) and it's going to be fun. Hard, but fun!
The men race their 15km skate this afternoon.
Now we are looking forward to the 4x5km relay on Thursday where we will have...
1st classic- Kikkan Randall
2nd classic- Laura Valaas
3rd skate- Caitlin Compton
4th skate- Sarah Konrad
I am pretty excited. We each do two 2.5km laps (different laps for skate and classic) and it's going to be fun. Hard, but fun!
posted by LAV at 16:13
2 Comments:
Fantastic! I was just out skiing a bit myself (umpteen laps of my yard), and wondering who was going to go for the U.S. women in the relay. Congratulations! I hope it's a great, great experience. No snowplowing!
don't worry about the snowplowing. There's one corner on the classic course that all the top girls were snowplowing in the pursuit race ...but it doesn't even make kikkan or me blink.
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