The Doctor Skis
The Sovereign2SilverStar race is on my want list, so when I looked at the results this year and saw that new KSC member Emily Stitt finished the skate race on Saturday as the first American female and sixth female overall, behind a handful of Canadian national team women (after spending the prior week backcountry skiing and camping, a whole new approach to tapering for a race), and then the classic race on Sunday as the eleventh female, right behind Laura McCabe, I determined to ask her for a race report for the blog. photo: Vanessa Garrison But several people said, yeah, no, that’s not a good idea; she is totally buried in her day job as an intern and now a resident in anesthesia at the UW, and would not exactly welcome that request. Then I saw that she was the first female finisher in the Nordic ski leg at last month’s Ski to Sea, seventh overall, and I knew I had to find a way to hear her story. Emily's photo of her fun team So we met last week for an after-work gelato and an i...