| Date: | Feb. 25, 2017 |
| Distance: | 28.0 km |
| Time: | 2:05:30 |
| Pace: | 0:04:29 minutes/km |
| Overall Place: | 148/170 |
| Division (Men's Classic) Place: | 3/6 |
| Map: | here |
What an amazing day of skiing on the Olympic nordic skiing trails! It was really inspiring to be in such an historic space and glide past the Olympic rings watching from above. The conditions and the course was fast and the other skiers were even faster. Turns out that skate skiing is really fast and it was pretty tough to compete as a classic skier (though we were held in high regard, and had multiple people congratulate us along the way, just for skiing so far classic). I had never gone that fast before, so I was a little nervous that I wouldn't be able to hold the pace through the second lap and I slowed down a little bit, but not as dramatically as perhaps I was expecting. Overall it was a great (and somewhat humbling) experience.