Craftsbury 23k Skate Marathon Race Report
(You know the drill. I wrote this for team Slack. Archived here. Want to be on our team slack and be part of an awesome community of athletes? Of course you do. We're recruiting: click here . ) This is really a story about how nothing in life means anything without other people. I have been nordic ski racing since 1987. I raced in school, I raced in college, and I raced after college. I was never good-good, but I was pretty good, and I used to spend my entire fall dryland training and my entire winter ski racing. I was 188th out of 5000 people at the 2011 American Birkebeiner . I stopped racing after 2012 because there just wasn't anyone to do it with anymore. 6 hours in the van with your college team to go race other college teams is awesome. Driving 3 hours by yourself to race high school kids and masters skiers twice your age alone isn't. Amateur sports are primarily experiential for most of us, and i...