I've been terribly remiss in writing about the last few World Cup cross-country skiing events: Stockholm, Sweden; Lahti, Finland; and Drammen, Norway, all passed without so much as a word on this blog.
But I shall not let Saturday's races at the Holmenkollen in Oslo slide by! These races - run in freestyle this year - are the real deal: 50km for men, 30km for women, always in an interval start, using long (16.7km) loops that send the racers out into the woods, where they mingle and mix with hordes of drunken Norwegians (see pix here). How do you say "old school" in Norwegian?