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Race Snapshot: Tour de Ski 3/5km Classic

It’s not a prologue. A midlogue?

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2012 01 03 Cross Country
Race Snapshots
Tour de Ski
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Tour de Ski Rest Day Review

There’s just too much racing going on during the first half of January to comment on it all. But the first rest day of the Tour de Ski certainly deserves some notes. So here’s a look at the current leaders of the Tour, compared to how they’ve fared in previous years, starting with the men: […]

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2012 01 02 Analysis
Cross Country
Race Recaps
Tour de Ski
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Race Snapshots: Tour de Ski 10/20k Pursuit

As with the other pursuit, these Tour formats produce some unusual results patterns that aren’t really comparable to other races.

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2012 01 01 Cross Country
Race Snapshots
Tour de Ski
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Race Snapshot: Tour de Ski Classic Sprint

Sounded like a messy, crash filled sprint today. Exciting stuff!

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2011 12 31 Cross Country
Race Snapshots
Tour de Ski
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Race Snapshot: Tour de Ski Pursuit

I sort of hesitate to post these, since as I expected this race format produces performance measures that are extreme outliers pretty much no matter what you do. Regular duathlon pursuits you can correct for somewhat, but these stage race two day affairs just always produce wacky looking results.

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2011 12 30 Cross Country
Race Snapshots
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Liz Stephen’s Distance Preferences

I was skimming FasterSkier’s write-up of the Tour de Ski prologue yesterday and noted their comment about how Liz Stephen “… is generally stronger over longer distances, performing better in 10k’s than 5k’s and even better still in 15k’s.” That has been my informal impression as well, but I was suddenly skeptical about whether her actual […]

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2011 12 30 Analysis
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Race Snapshots: TdS Prologue

Count me among the folks who aren’t sold on the idea of prologues.

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2011 12 29 Cross Country
Race Snapshots
Tour de Ski
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