“I like to go really slow, like 10-minute miles,” Jessie Diggins said this fall as she snapped on a vest stocked with water bottles and snacks before a morning run in Central Park.
A preference for “slow” is not what one expects to hear out of the mouth of an Olympic and world champion cross-country skier — not even when she’s just out for a run. Diggins mostly makes her living chasing speed across the snow, but this was still a month shy of the start of the Nordic World Cup season Friday in Ruka, Finland.
Diggins was in New York for the U.