So Hayward pretty much kicked butt today at their state meet. Molly Burger won the women's 7km classic and Kyle Fredrickson won the men's 7km classic. The men easily won the event as a team with Matt Pierce in 3rd and John Grossi in 5th. The women tied for first with Lakeland but I think officially get second since lakeland's fourth girl was ahead of Hayward's fourth girl. The other Hayward girls scoring were Elizabeth Simak in 10th and Michelle Narveson in 11th.

The RMISA collegiate racers are over in Enchanted Forest Ski Area, NM. Paul Schauer from UAA won the skate race today... it's always nice to have Americans winning the collegiate races especially since it doesn't happen often enough. Devon Spika, a freshman girl from Whitman, is doing well this season and should qualify for NCAA's this year.

Kuzzy is in Germany with some on the USA Continental Cup Team racing the OPA Cup races in Oberstdorf this weekend. The ladies skied seriously well with Taz Mannix in 5th, Liz Stephen in 6th, and Morgan Arritola in 13th. Most exciting is Taz's FIS points for the race: 85. Which puts her under the FIS limit to be eligible to start World Cup distance races (90 points). I can't pretend I'm not jealous; the lowest points I've ever gotten is 116 (yep, that's right, FIS won't let me race a distance World Cup and will only barely let me start World Cup sprints).

Jay Hakkinen and Tim Burke finished 9th in the relay at Biathlon World Championships in Italy today. I don't know exactly whose racing in Aspen, but there was a 30k skate there today. Nikolai Anikin won the Pre-Birkie this morning at Telemark.

My Hayward team is off showing the rest of WI how to ski in Rhinelander, home of the Hodags. My Whitman team is enjoying the wide open skies and high altitude of Red River, NM. My teammate Kuzzy's off in Europe with a bunch of fast women. Basically everyone was off racing somewhere this weekend and all I was doing was watching results.