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  "It rhymes with chicken," Allie said as she introduced herself and gave her new co-workers a favorite trick for remembering her last name.   Allie Rykken has just joined the office ranks as official Program Coach of the Loppet Youth Programs.  She...

“I’m going to start riding to school” exclaimed Saysetha as he snapped on his helmet and bounded back to his bicycle that he had been working on for the last half hour.  That is because the ten mountain bikes that the Anwatin Ski Team had been riding...

  RFP announcement The City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation and the Sisu Foundation have jointly issued a Request for Proposals to provide event timing and results reporting at the 2012 Tour de Twin Cities SuperTour and Junior Olympics Qualifying events...

Time to get out the ski poles.  This Tuesday over thirty skiers anxious for snow arrived at the Par 3 building to begin core strengthening, muscle toning, and endurance building- all in anticipation of the upcoming ski season.  Led by veteran coaches...

The City of Lakes Run Club had been training for the City of Lakes Loppet for 11 weeks. Beginning practices on the heels of the Tri-Loppet in June, the group of thirty had been meeting twice a week throughout the summer to train, motivate, commiserate,...

On Saturday, the Wirth Woods were abound with a human migration of sorts, a journey of over 700 individuals who trotted, strided and sprinted their way in and out of the forest to the finish line. Following the dipping and meandering paths of Eloise...

“It was awesome,” said Anwatin team member Glory Duda definitively as if she would have had it no other way.  But what hasn’t Glory been enthusiastic about this year?  Since trying out for the Anwatin Ski Team last fall, Glory more than cut her 5K ski...