#skate skiing

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in honor of langas birthday, I present: sk8 the infinity but it’s sk8 skiing??? 👀

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happy Valentine’s Day feat. The thing I love most which is Nordic skiing ofc 🥰

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Went skate skiing this afternoon and it was really really cool

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In this Sunday's New York Times:

"For a long time I just didn’t “get” cross-country skiing. Shuffling through the woods while dangling a scratchy wool scarf? Too stuffy, too twee, too boring — a sport better left to old Norwegians and young honeymooners. I’m not ready to stride across a Currier & Ives print, I scoffed.

Then a friend introduced me to skate skiing, “classic” Nordic’s zippy younger brother. If traditional Nordic skiing is a walk in the woods, then skate skiing — which was born only in the 1970s — is more like trail running. It’s swooping. It’s fast. It’s graceful. It’s even a bit sexy, something its buttoned-up older brother has never been accused of. No wonder that more runners and cyclists have discovered the discipline as a great winter counterpart. Purchase of skate skis has been on a slow, steady rise in recent years, accounting for 16 percent of cross-country skis bought in 2012-13.

There’s just one problem with skate skiing: It’s hard. >

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