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![Women's 10km FR podium (l-r) Charlotte Kalla (SWE), Marit Bjoergen (NOR), Therese Johaug (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus](http://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/W-podium020314al013.2.jpg "Women's 10km FR podium (l-r) Charlotte Kalla (SWE), Marit Bjoergen (NOR), Therese Johaug (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus")
March 03, 2014 (Lahti, Finland) – Marit Bjoergen’s (NOR) spectacular form continued after her successful Winter Olympic Games in Sochi as she sped to the 10km FR interval start win in Lahti. Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla (SWE) fine forme also continued as she took second place, trailing the leader by 26.9s. Kalla bested Therese Johaug (NOR), who settled for third place at 27.6s off of the winning time. Kikkan Randall (USA) was the top North American in 21st place.
![Charlotte Kalla (SWE) [P] Nordic Focus](http://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Kalla-020314al003.2.jpg "Charlotte Kalla (SWE) [P] Nordic Focus")
We caught up with Randall after her race to get a read on how she felt the day after her spectacular sprint victory on the previous day. “My legs were definitely achy after the hard effort yesterday but I woke up feeling energetic and excited to race again,” said Randall.
![Kikkan Randall (USA) [P] Nordic Focus](http://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/randall011213al005.2.jpg "Kikkan Randall (USA) [P] Nordic Focus")
Although Randall’s energy and motivation were high, things didn’t go exactly how she would have liked. “I wanted to be a little faster and higher up in the results than I finished today. I started aggressive like I wanted to, struggled in the middle when my legs got tired but had a good last 2km following Marit [Bjoergen],” commented Randall.
![Therese Johaug (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus](http://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Johaug-020314al009.2.jpg "Therese Johaug (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus")
Johaug was disappointed, as she led most of the race, losing time in the final kilometres, and fell to third place at the finish. The feisty Norwegian still leads the World Cup overall standings with 1,142 points. Bjoergen, who sits second with 1,042 points, recognizes she needs to dig deep to surpass her young teammate in order to attain the crystal globe at the end of the season.
![Marit Bjoergen (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus](http://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjoergen020314al007.2.jpg "Marit Bjoergen (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus")
Randall liked the track in Lahti, but mentioned the conditions made things even tougher for the race: “It’s a fun course to race. Basically two different 2.5km loops linked together. A couple big climbs but good recovery in between. Conditions were similar to yesterday with loose sugary snow over ice. During the women’s race, we had the added challenge of new falling snow which slowed it down quite a bit.”
In other North American results, Liz Stephen (USA) finished 32nd, Holly Brooks (USA) 44th, Alysson Marshall (CAN) 62nd, Heidi Widmer (CAN) 63rd, Cendrine Brown (CAN) 68th, Andrea Dupont (CAN) 71st, and Jennie Bender (USA) 76th.
![Marit Bjoergen (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus](http://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjoergen020314al014.2.jpg "Marit Bjoergen (NOR) [P] Nordic Focus")