One of the more exciting stories out of the early season FIS races in Muonio, Finland was the strong performances from Liz Stephen. Now, being a cautious, data centric guy, I also tend to be a bit of a downer. So I am loathe to predict much based on a single race, although there have […]
Also tagged early season, justyna kowalczyk, muonioLiz Stephen destroyed the women’s field this weekend in the annual Climb to the Castle rollerski race. The margin, just over 5 minutes in a race that took the leaders between 40-45 minutes is certainly impressive. But I think that margin doesn’t provide much useful information. Time trials that are most useful as gauges of […]
Also tagged climb to the castle, ida sargent, jessie diggins, pre season, roller skiing, time trialKris Freeman and Kikkan Randall have been basically the top US skiers for quite some time now. (I’m sort of brushing Andrew Newell under the rug here, mostly just due to time contraints. I’ll do a follow up on him next week.) Freeman has been more or less unquestionably the best US male distance skier […]
Also tagged Distance, domestic, holly brooks, ida sargent, jessie diggins, kikkan randall, kris freeman, lars flora, noah hoffman, sadie bjornsen, Sprint, sylvan ellefson, tad elliott, USAAs with most stage races these days, the Tour de Ski included some handicap start pursuits. Generally, the athletes will start in a staggered fashion based upon their time back in the overall standings, and the first person to the finish line wins the stage. This creates some very unusual incentives for the athletes, depending […]
Also tagged handicap, kris freeman, pursuit, tour de ski, World CupI 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 […]
Also tagged Analysis, Distance, women, World CupOh yeah, there were some distance races in Rogla on Saturday too, huh? Once again, this will be short on the words; just some pretty pictures. The US women had another strong outing: Once again I’d note the continued downward trends for Holly and Kikkan and the generally flat trend for Liz. (Ida still has […]
Also tagged alex harvey, canada, devon kershaw, Distance, holly brooks, ida sargent, kikkan randall, men, rogla, russia, USA, women, World CupNorth Americans Each weekend seems to be an interesting mix of results for the North Americans. Starting with the women (Davos result circled in blue): Compared to this season, that was an off day for Kikkan, but compared to last season that was pretty typical. Part of me wonders if she dialed it back a […]
Also tagged Davos, holly brooks, ivan babikov, kikkan randall, kris freeman, noah hoffman, recap, sadie bjornsen, sprint distance, tad elliott, World Cup