That was a false alarm for me on the Kuusamo 15k. I woke up in the morning with some serious lung burn from the sprint the day before so I had to call it. But Freeman killed it! Hell yeah! That was rad. Even though it was on the cold side, like -16c, it was perfect classic skiing with hard tracks and really fair waxing. Freeman skied a smart race and eased into his first 5k and then kept stepping it up for the next 10. It was pretty cool to watch the splits pop up on the TV and to see Bird ahead of all the top dogs.