Jamtli and Silver!

On Thursday after breakfast, I did some homework. Then later Dad and I hitched a ride with the coaches over to the venue, from there we walked to Jamtli, the museum of Jamtland's history. There we walked through the amazing museum and saw all of the interesting exhibits of the culture of northern Sweden. After that we visited the gift shop and went to lunch in the café. Later we went back to the venue to ski and prepare for the men's race. I was starting to do some intervals around the upper loop, when the temperature dropped to minus 10 celcius. I decided to do a moderate skate for an hour instead. Later Dad and I walked out to one of the hills on the course to do feeds for the men's race. Feeds are when you hand the athlete a drink of water or another drink during the race on a long downhill. The men's 20 kilometer individual race began at 5:10 and had 136 competitors. We had four racers in the event, Tim Burke, Jeremy Teela, Jay Hakkinen, and Kevin Patzolt. It was a great night for team USA with Burke taking 2nd, the best world cup result for the US since 1982. There are no races tomorrow, but on Saturday and Sunday there will be 2 races each day!