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KINCAID PARK, Anchorage — For Lauren Jortberg, the winner of Sunday’s 10-kilometer (okay, 13-kilometer) interval-start skate that opened the SuperTour distance season, the race was confirmation that she is successfully refining her gliding skills and the application of power into the skis.
For Emma Albrecht, in second, the result was the best SuperTour distance showing of her career, 32 minutes of in-the-zone skiing that instantly made hundreds of hours of training worthwhile…