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USST Athletes to Compete in Washington's Ski to Sea Race
While much of the rest of America will be celebrating Memorial Day weekend throwing a baseball, beer and brats, National Teamers Torin Koos and Kris Freeman will be ski racing in the Ski to Sea Relays. Following a shotgun start early Sunday morning the eight kilometer cross-country ski leg begins the seven discipline, eighty-three mile event that draws north of two-thousand competitors to the sleepy northwester coastal city of Bellingham, Washington. It won’t be a walk in the park for Koos and Freeman though. Former Olympians Justin Wadsworth and Adam Verrier along with regional elites Colin Mahood, Kent Murdoch and foreign imports Tobias Schwoerer (Germany) and Trond Flagstad (Norway) headline the front running teams. After the cross country ski leg, teams will hand off to the alpine skiers who’ll make a 1 ½ mile run up and Super-G style run down Mount Baker. Then a screaming eight mile run with a vertical loss of 2,000 feet off Mount Baker transitions into a 36 mile bike ride, 18 mile canoe down the Nooksack river, changes over to a nine mile singletrack mountain bike leg before finally finishing with a five mile sea kayak leg in the Pacific Ocean. Interested websters can follow the race at www.skitosea.com.
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Written By: petevDate Posted: 5/27/2004Number of Views: 310
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