When did this happen

Yikes, a lot to post about all of a sudden.
The most exciting news first, Kikkan Randall gets another sprint win in Davos!  Not just a win, she qualified first and proceeded to dominate every heat she was in after that, including the finals.  The showdown that everyone has been waiting for Randall vs Bjorgen has yet to happen as Marit did not make it to the finals.  Randall is now very much in control of the sprint standings, and if she can continue to make the finals when sprinting goes back to the classic technique I don't think anyone will be able to unseat her.
Elsewhere in women's sprinting, I'm quickly becoming a huge fan of Laurien Van Der Graaff, the young Swiss sprinter.  She has had two great sprint weekends now and her enthusiasm for the sport is pretty apparent.  I'm not sure what to make of Natalia Matveeva.  She was a standout Russian sprinter until 2009 where she tested positive for EPO and received a two year ban.  Now she's back and jumping right back to the top of the podium.  I hope she's cleaned up her act, but the Russian system is not exactly known for having the toughest of internal doping controls, so I'm kind of doubting she has gotten much pressure from her own ski federation to clean up her act.  That being said I hope she is clean, since she has a lot of her career still ahead of her and a repeat offender would not speak well for the efficacy of the doping ban (although it might speak well for the effectiveness of the testing.)  On the distance side Holly Brooks keeps getting better and better, and she also qualified for the heats in Sunday's sprint.  I hope she finds a way to stay over for the tour this year, she could have a good impact.
I had my first race this weekend.  Dave and I partnered up for the Breadsmith relays.  Not one of my favorite races on the circuit, since it seems like it is always cold and slow.  Maybe starting the race at 6:45 on artificial snow has something to do with that.  This year went far better than years past however.  I used my brother's new skis, and they felt fast and stable the whole time.  I actually took the lead partway through my first go and tagged off to Dave in first.  Of course Bjorn is a force to be reckoned with and the reason team Boom beat our team, named "without Bjorn".  He had a large gap on Dave by the next tag-off, and I couldn't bring back much if any time on Travis the second loop.  We did manage to bury the teams behind us though, and came in second.  Not good enough to win anything, but we still get the respect; to some people that's more important.
I have a minecraft server up and running now, so my efforts are a bit split between exploring the wonderful world of 1.0 and working on my snow globe on Iskidar's server, which I have the feeling won't complete before the Christmas goal.  It is a fun project to be server host, but also a frustrating one.  I have random login errors often, and am not sure why because they come and go.
On the least good news side of things I was awoken this morning with a sharp pain in my right foot.  It has dulled a bit as the day goes on today, but not enough that I would risk working out on it.  Maybe good timing, since it was raining out this morning and I feel the snow we have left is not long for this world.  I'll try to post again later in the week if the weather and my treacherous body sort themselves out.