Notes
Birkie
1 hour in the medical aid station at Mosquito Brook, at about the 36 km point. Not sure what happened to me, but I was able to get up and finish eventually.
NOTE: My last ski workout was on February 10th, almost 2 full weeks before the Birkie. I skied 8 miles that day, and it was tough. (It was also the longest ski workout of the winter, which is just pathetic.) I commented in my Notes for that workout that, at the pace I skied that day, it would take me about 5 hours to ski the Birkie. My actual finish time was 5:50, so without the 1 hour break, my time was about 4:50. I guess I should be happy with it. (My classic times for 55K were both in the 4:45 to 4:50 range, I think, so I am actually faster at Classic. The conditions were slow this year, with deep snow being tougher on the Skate skiers, so that may have been a factor as well.)