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What I love about SkiMo is its grassroots, laid back, yet brutally fearless and completely NUTS approach to racing, which is SO refreshing in what the world of endurance sports has become. Although I had skinned on my dad’s setup occasionally during my ski racing days in my youth in Italy, I found skimo in the US in 2019 after becoming increasingly frustrated with the rigidity and robotic nature of what triathlon had become in my 6 years as a professional in the sport. I raced the 2019 Five Peaks Ski Mountaineering team race with my buddy and former ITU triathlon Olympic hopeful, John O’Neill, and I thought it was the CRAZIEST thing ever, racing full gas up and down five of Breck’s highest mountains (three 13k feet and two 12k feet summits), across 13 miles and 7k+ feet of up (and down!). I was truly having the time of my life, but Doug had other thoughts… :) Listen to the podcast. We became friends after and actually raced the Aspen Power of Four team race together for the last 2 years.
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