Zach Caldwell became a student of the sport of Cross Country Ski Racing as soon as he realized that he wouldn’t amount to anything as a practitioner of the sport. In 2002, after a six-year stint as program director for the New England Nordic Ski Association, he bought his first Tazzari stonegrinder and started grinding skis under the Engineered Tuning trade-name. He has continued to study all aspects of the sport and to pass himself off as a coach as well as a service man, at times successfully.

On principle Zach abhors the use of the third person. We’re kind of into the first person plural - the royal “We”. We might employ that from now on.