Katie Ronsse & Laura Valaas, post victory in the Team Sprint on Sunday. The team sprint here is a fun race because you have to ski with someone from your club so it's one of the only races where I get to represent APUNSC. It was also the first Ronsse-Valaas team sprint pairing, I'm hoping there's more in our future! We spent half of the ski the previous day practicing hand-offs. Our first couple of tries were awful-- Katie post-holed and was still at a stand still, or I would ski away too fast. After a ton of repetitions we got it down and by the time we actually raced our hand-offs went smoothly and we managed to maintain good momentum through the exchange zone.

Ronsse, Valaas, & Ky Eiben. Ky, along with Kate Fitzgerald, was the other APUNSC team in the women's race and, despite Fitz breaking off her handle in a fall, skied quite well into 5th place.
Ronsse has the enviable talent of always being able to Strike A Pose.

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