Rossland, BC

Dec. 16, 2010

     So we made it to Rossland, BC on Monday night and arrived to lots of snow and warm temperatures.  Rossland is a beautiful alpine type resort with lots of cross country skiing trails to compliment it. We have had a lot of routine around here, a lot of it geared towards preparing us for US Nationals here in a couple weeks. We have a lot of training the past few weeks with some tough races thrown in. We are all feeling a bit tired, but excited to get the first mini-tour of the season under way. We have three days of racing ahead of us with the mini tour. We are starting with a skate sprint day where the top thirty get alloted bonus time towards the overall. We continue on Saturday with a 10k Skate race (individual start). The last day is a 15k classic race in pursuit format. So the first two days of time is added up plus whatever bonus time one might have received. A racer will then go out exactly the amount of time he/her is behind the overall leader. The first person across the finish line will then be the overall winner.
     I am currently working on a team intro video for APU so that for those of you not familiar with the team can put names to the faces. It should be up shortly, so keep a watchful eye out. I will post results from tomorrow as soon as they are available. Hope all is well with everybody.