Leaders in the women's 30km.  Have no illusions about how fast you need to be to be in this group.  Train hard, train a lot, rest well and do it all again and again.

Abby Larson.  This is the end of a long, long gradual uphill and the start of a much less gradual and fairly long uphill.

Rebecca Dussault heading up the fence.

Sara Konrad (52) following Sweden (26) and Norway (30).  Start numbers are ordered by FIS rank.

(Vordenberg Images)