Well, my first sprint of the year went pretty well. It was a classic sprint and it was snowing hard. Almost everyone decided that double poling the course was the fastest and it showed. The top 6 women all used skate skis and every guy used skate skis in the heats as well. Garrott really put the hammer down in qualifying, because he was angry he fell in the skate sprint qualifying last week. He ended up qualifying 1st and ended the day in 5th. Brian Gregg also had a decent qualifying round and ended in 21st. It was a bummer he was in the same heat as Garrott and was not able to advance out of the quarters. The same went with all the rest of us. Caitlin, JoJo, Heather, and Kristina all made the heats but were knocked out in the quarters. I ended my qualifying round in 22nd just behind Gregg. I was happy with that as well as how my heat went. With all the new snow falling it was pretty hard to pass out there and I was in 5th for most of my heat before ending in 4th. All and all, it was a pretty good first sprint race for me. Now we are waiting around to race the final race of this early season campaign. It is a 15km and 10km classic race slated to start at 5pm under the lights. It is still snowing and supposed to drop in temperature all day. Some are worried that it might actually be to cold to race so we will wait and see. Check out all the sweet pictures Maria took of the sprint race on the post below!
