When we drew up a dinner schedule I gleefully volunteered to do lasagna one night. Lasagna was the easiest dinner to make, just buy a couple of frozen lasagnas and remember to put them in the oven early enough for dinner. Then Becca said, "frozen lasagna? I've never made frozen lasagna, I've always made lasagna from scratch." Sometimes I find being naturally competitive is a bad thing because at that point of course I had to make my lasagna from scratch too. So after the race today Becca and I went grocery shopping and then made some very tasty lasagna for dinner. Becca agreed to be my cooking partner and lasagna making adviser. It's reassuring to know that you can race and regardless of whether you get 8th or win or last life still goes back to normal when you get home.

But as fun as making lasagna turned out to be racing was still the highlight of the day. It's been snowing ceaselessly all day but when we raced it hadn't accumulated too much after they groomed so the course was respectably firm. My goal, well one of them, was to ski hard. I know that sounds pretty basic and obvious but I suspect that I tend to go too easy in my distance races. It's part of my really complicated racing strategy of "just... ski... FASTER!" Actually, I did have a little bit more of a plan: take the first 1.5km downhill fast & smooth, ski up the first long hill conservatively, then back down recover but try to build some speed around the downhill corners... then hammer the second half of the course. It seemed to work well for me. Top 10 at Nats in a distance race is still a great result for me!

And Congrats to Compton for winning! Not just winning, but basically annihilating the field, I'm so proud of my ex-CXC-teammate!

Looking forward to our two 5km laps classic on Thursday.