It was a pretty decent day for North America on Saturday with Kikkan Randall’s 2nd place, some solid performances by Chandra Crawford and Dasha Gaiazova (8th and 27th) and a mostly average race for Andrew Newell (13th). Many thanks to Jan at WorldofXC.com for providing me with some data that I don’t usually have access […]
Also tagged Sprint, World CupAs always, there’s lots of stuff I could focus on, but we can’t have everything. Â As is usually the case, the weekend was a bit of a mixed bag for the North Americans. Â Kris Freeman continued to look quite strong despite some bad luck with his poles. Â Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw had much stronger […]
Also tagged kikkan randall, kuusamo, liz stephen, morgan arritola, World CupThis recap of this past weekend’s WC races will be a little different than before. Â Rather than focus on individual performances, I’d like to look at the races as a group. Â Stage race formats are relatively new to the cross country world, and these short stage races are even newer. Â Since they are roughly modeled […]
Also tagged bump chart, kuusamo, stage raceSeveral people have commented that my summary graphs should take into account skier’s potentially differing abilities in skating and classic. Â (We could slice up the data as thinly as we’d like: mass start vs. interval, etc. Â But that will get complicated quickly, so let’s add technique and see how it goes for now.) I pondered […]
Also tagged race snapshot, World CupNow for some of the folks across the pond. Â I’m less familiar with a lot of the European racers, so who I focus on will be largely dictated by what stands out to me in the data (or you can drop me a line if you think there’s someone I should put under the microscope!), […]
Also tagged axel teichmann, lukas bauer, maria rydqvist, mia eriksson, petr sedov, pietro piller cottrer, robin duvillard, sami jauhojaervi, silvana bucher, sjur roethe, tobias angerer, vincent vittoz, World CupI’ll have a post up tomorrow running through some of the notable European results from the weekend. The short version of the weekend’s distance races goes something like this: Good: Kris Freeman, Kikkan Randall, Noah Hoffman, Liz Stephen Bad: Canadian men, Chris Cook Meh: Morgan Arritola, Andrey Newell Americans Here’s a closer look at the […]
Also tagged alex harvey, chris cook, devon kershaw, george grey, ivan babikov, kikkan randall, kris freeman, liz stephen, morgan arritola, noah hoffman, World CupIn the run up to the World Cup season, I had been trying to think of ways to create a single graph that would do a decent job of communicating how good each person’s race was in the context of their past results. Â I wanted something relatively simple and easy to read that would hopefully […]
Also tagged race snapshot, World Cup