finish a cross-country ski race

I’ve signed up for a different race, but about the same length, in January 2008. I haven’t been training a whole lot for it, but the course profile seems to be mostly downhill so I think I’ll survive. :)

I completed my race today! It ended up being 24 km in all, with fairly easy terrain over the first half of the course. It helped a lot that the snow was fast for the first hour or so before it started melting.

Because of the fast snow, I finished 25 min faster than I’d hoped, too. I even got a medal!

There’s a 26 km ski race in a couple of weeks that I want to finish. I think I can do it, but I just need to get out and practice a few times before the big day!