hey lookee there - 2 weeks to go, there is (barely) adequate snow cover, it's gonna stay cold and so a couple saturdays from now there will be 8,000 people in stretchy and questionably gaudy long underwear standing in the dark and freezing cold in the middle of nowhere deep in the wisconsin northwoods ready to go. 54 K and plenty-o-hills. any other tri-heads gonna do the american birkebeiner xc ski marathon?