wrote:
I'm not sure if quiet after some years is agreement. The skiers,
especially those who've been around for awhile, still seem to
appreciate individual start distance races.

Most plain mass start events, particularly skating where drafting helps
even more, tend to become rather boring.

It is just our luck that Petter N should turn up just at the time when
being able to sprint after (or in the middle of) a long race has become
so crucially important, but something like the men's 50k last year in
Holmenkollen had just two interesting questions:

1) Would Petter avoid any accidents/falls?

2) Who would end up in the second/third place?

It must be said that the TdS mass start version, with many bonus
points/seconds to be had in the middle of the race, is much better at
keeping the speed up.

Terje
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