"If we were going out of our comfort zone by signing up for a 50K, why not go big and sign up for the biggest race in the country?"

"Aloha Nordic is a San Francisco based team. With little access to snow, they train by biking and roller-skiing. In 2019, fourteen team members skied the Birkie (and the Birkie Giant Ski!). They'll be back in 2020!"

“I think [cross-country skiing] helped with aerobic development, because with cross-country skiing, you can go for so much longer. We’d do long training sessions back then of, bare minimum, an hour-and-a-half, but you could ski up to five hours, which is just something you can’t do running... Overall, especially in a place like Edinburgh, I’ve raced so many times in the cold and snow cross-country skiing that it does help with your mindset.”

"The importance of our sports is they fuel a lifestyle of lifelong full-body fitness that I believe connects to a great understanding of healthy sustainability."