December 03, 2010 – We came across Norwegian star Marit Bjoergen’s blog and thought we’d share it with readers courtesy of Google translator and some editing. Bjoergen’s off to an amazing start this season and is poised for more success. She’s sitting out the Dusseldorf WCup this weekend and will continue in Davos the following weekend Dec. 11-12 – read her thoughts on her success. and visit her web site HERE

Cool in Yellow
This has been an unbelievable start to the season. Yellow jersey at the World Cup and only wins so far. I have never been this close to dreaming of such results. I had a goal to be fighting for top five positions at the start of the season. What’s the secret… many ask.

What I can say is that there has been very good training this summer and fall without injury or illness. I have worked hard with the technical elements in the tracks as well. Good physical fitness and good technical skiing are the right combinations to create fast skis.

In addition, I simply love cross-country skiing, and I’m enjoying life. It’s like that in sports – time goes faster than we realize as you try to build on what you’ve accomplished and work hard towards the next opportunity hoping to continue in the same fashion – obviously I cannot guarantee that – but that’s what makes sports exciting!

Our women’s team has been a lot of fun with many good performances. At the 10km skate race in Gallivare we had six girls among the top eleven finishers. I am pretty sure this has never happened before…. I’m bad at history 🙂 – fantastic results anyway.

We are a team that works amazingly well together and without the other girls I would not be where I am today.

Now I’ll spend a few days in Oslo before travelling to Davos for altitude training before the next World Cup which starts in about one and a half weeks.

There will be plenty of exercise and relaxation.

Looking forward to it. 🙂