skied right through the exchange zone and then everyone caught me and just flew past me. so i had that in the back of my head and i thought maybe my skis were going to make a difference today. i felt good, but i lost the pack, so i’m bummed about that.
it was a lot better than i thought out there. there were a couple sections that got a little soft, but for the most part the course was firm and it actually skied much better at race pace than it does when you’re trying to go slow. it was fun to jump in and for about 7.5k i was 