It was a nice, blue extra day and 134 skiers showed up at Snow Mountain Ranch to ski the new 7.5km course (some once, some twice), the wee ones duked it out on a two kilometer course.

Michael Brothers and Nathan Schultz pushed each other the whole 15k, Michael came in first with Nathan not too far behind, third in the men's race was Jon Miller. Sarah Konrad won the women's 15k ahead of Jennifer Wygant and Tina Gini Larter, all three ladies finished very respectable top 20 overall.

Levin Zars, Rich Jortberg and Becca Phorsness were the first three overall finishers of the 7.5km race.

For complete results click on this link: http://www.racingunderground.com/results/2008results/skiressmrclassic08.html

Many thanks to the organizers and volunteers for a great event and also to all the competitors for coming - it is great to see so many good classic skiers!

Next stop Devil's Thumb Ranch, Sat. Jan.19th for the Swix Pursuit (bit of both, classic and skate skiing)

and Chama, NM on Jan.20th for the Chama Chile Ski Classic - a 10km and 5km SKATE race (don't get confused by the name Classic :-)

Fast tracks!