By Gavin Kentch
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ANCHORAGE — The 2025/2026 SuperTour season continues at Kincaid Park this Friday, for the second weekend in a row. Two days of racing went off successfully last weekend. It was somewhat cold and very windy, but the races were of high quality. You can read news coverage of those races here.
Here’s what you need to know about this weekend:
Results
Here are results for the whole weekend, including all of start lists, heat brackets, and final results when available. Live timing will also be available through the same link.
You can find results for last weekend’s racing here.
Schedule and race format
Friday is a skate sprint. Sunday is an interval-start classic distance race. As of Saturday, the distance race is scheduled to be a 10km, going twice around the 5km loop shown below under courses. I will update this if that changes.
Friday, December 12: skate sprint
- qual, first female starter, 10:30:15 a.m. (44 starters total)
- qual, first male starter: 10:51:15 a.m. (82 starters total)
- heats: starting at 12:30 p.m. (women first), finals at 1:45 p.m. (women) and 1:55 p.m. (men)
- awards: 2:30 p.m., in the lee of the timing building at the west edge of the stadium
Sunday, December 14: 10-kilometer interval-start classic
- first male starter, 10:30:30 a.m.
- men’s race awards, noon, same place as Friday
- first female starter, 12:30:30 p.m.
- women’s race awards, 1:30 p.m., same place as Friday
Streaming?
No, sorry, but here is the Kincaid webcam, which is better than nothing. You’ll have an A+ view of the finish straight, in the foreground, and a C- view of athletes going both up the first uphill and down the final-ish downhill of the sprint course, in the background. Finish route remains the same for Sunday’s distance races.
The camera is angled looking to the northeast, fyi. If you can clearly read the FINISH flag, then there is either a north wind, or no wind. This is the Kincaid stadium we are talking about, so take the “no wind” option off the table. It could be pretty rough out there this weekend, frankly, but at least there is snow now.
Courses?
Here is the sprint course:
And here is the distance course.
Here are detailed breakdowns of the courses, from someone who lives a nine-minute drive from the venue and has raced both courses multiple times:
Conditions?
Icy. Very icy. There will be fair races of decent quality, especially on the manmade snow that makes up all of the sprint course and the core of the distance loop, but it’s rather skittery once you venture off of that. It has been windy here.
Update: NSAA has done yeoman’s work in making and pushing snow. The non-manmade parts of the course will still… ski pretty differently than the manmade parts, but the portion of the course with good snow on it has been steadily increasing.
Overall SuperTour standings?
Here is the link for that spreadsheet from USSS. Some of this information is also presented in a more visually pleasing format here, on the new standalone SuperTour site.
Reporting?
I’ll be out there on site all weekend. Anna Engel will also be there for photos. Check back throughout the weekend for full race reports.
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