Picking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday. Â Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last […]
Also tagged Distance, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, World CupSaturday was the first long mass start race of the World Cup season in La Clusaz, France, and along with mass start races come difficulties in measuring performance in a sensible manner. Â The women’s field didn’t help matters by having the top three ski away from the field. So you end up with some odd […]
Also tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, Distance, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, women, World CupI think there were high hopes for Kris Freeman in today’s 30km, particularly after yesterdays monster article in FasterSkier, but I still suspect he’s likely to do better in 15km events. Â Still, not a terrible race for him at all, and a good day all around for the North Americans. Â Once again, though, the women’s […]
Also tagged Distance, la clusaz, mass start, race snapshot, World CupMarit Bjørgen commented somewhere that her win at the WC opener in Gällivare, SWE was “the best skate race of her life”.  Sadly, I can’t find where I read that, otherwise I’d have a link for you.  Obviously, I found that kind of intriguing.  Let’s look at Bjørgen’s race in a bit more detail: This […]
Also tagged margin of victory, marit bjoergen