Inga-Laami ski race

contributed by Kristin Hanson

December 18, 2009

2009 Inga-Laami (Norway) 2009 was the first year for the Inga-Laami to be a part of the Worldloppet Silver medal races. This year there were approx 1500 women in the 30km race. This race was my 2nd Worldloppet race. The day of the race it was about -5C and light to medium snow falling.The Inga-Laami is an interesting race in the fact that all you must do is glide wax your skis and bring them to the start before the race for the Swix wax team to put race day kick wax on your skis. The race was well run for Norwegians and those who speak it but it had very little to no info available in any language other than Norwegian.

At the end of the race we went to get my passport stamped and none of the race representatives at Hakonshall were aware of the fact that the Inga-Laami was apart of the WL. We contacted WL in Italy and had to send the passport to the head WL office to be stamped. This was the first WL stamp for this race in it's inaugural year.

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