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Zak Ketterson

Zak’s Easiest Lunch Ever Recipe

Welcome, dearly beloved readers. Given that I already blessed you guys with the greatest breakfast of all time, Zak’s Overnight Oatmeal Recipe, I figured it was time to key y’all into the second major meal of the day: Lunch. Now, a fair warning: this m...

R.E.G. Camp Recap

This blog is reposted from a piece I wrote for teambirkie.comHello, everyone! I’m checking in after a jam-packed week of fun at the Regional Elite Group camp in Marquette, Michigan. For those that don’t know, REG camps are an initiative by the U.S. Ski...

Altitude Training Guide

Introduction:I’m back after a pretty long break from writing new blogs! In the same way that I needed some time off from training after the season ended, I also wanted to take a little break from writing. A lot of effort goes into these blog posts and...

World Cup Highs and Lows

Hello, everyone! It has been a little while since I last checked in. In my last blog, I wrote a preview about the Period 3 World Cup races (here) that I just finished competing in. I want to take the opportunity to write more in-depth reports of each o...

Spring World Cup Preview

Hello, everyone! I am currently sitting in my hotel room in Lahti, Finland preparing for some World Cup races! I want to check in with everyone to provide a more detailed schedule of all the races I will be doing, including where they will be held and...

7 Reasons I Love Minnesota

Over the course of my career as a cross-country skier, I have had the privilege of traveling all around the world. I have trained and raced in numerous European countries, as well as a ton of different states in the USA. I have been to some truly incre...

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So Long, and Thanks for All the FIS: Nordic Insights Quasi-Retires

By Gavin Kentch Announcement: I am stepping away from full-time work on Nordic Insights. Ski journalism was never going to be a long-term job for me; it was more just...

Persistent to the End: Rosie Brennan Quasi-Retires

By Gavin Kentch Rosie Brennan is officially retiring from World Cup ski racing… but is spending this summer training twice a day, and will be taking her rollerskis with her...

Jessie Diggins and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Walk Into a Theater: Movie review, ‘Threshold’ and ‘Klæbo’

This is a reader-funded website. Virtually all of my income — for perspective: I took home less than $5,000 from Nordic Insights last year after paying staff — comes...