They’re tired. They’ve been living mostly out of suitcases for the last six months. And they no doubt miss home.

But there’s probably a part of cross-country skiers Devon Kershaw, Alex Harvey and Len Valjas that doesn’t want the 2011-12 FIS World Cup season to come to an end.

Kershaw, a 29-year-old from Sudbury, Ont., capped a magnificent season on Sunday in Falun, Sweden, scoring a silver medal for his second-place overall finish at the World Cup finals, a four-race series that ends the season. Sunday they raced a 15 kilometre skate pursuit.

“I crossed the line and thought ‘Thank God it is done,’ but I was so proud right away of our entire team,” Kershaw said in a release. “This last month I had a lot of nervous energy but finishing second at the World Cup finals was another huge goal this year. That is about as good as it gets.

“I know I have to take one month off but I’m so motivated to get training again and get going again next year to keep building on this.”

Kershaw finished with a four-race combined time of one hour 32 minutes, 56.90 seconds. Swiss ace Dario Cologna won in a time of 1:32:33.10 with Norway’s Niklas Dyrhaug third in 1:33:13.60.

Kershaw also finished second to Cologna in the race for the Crystal Globe as the season’s overall points leader.

“I think it was really cool that Dario and I finished first and second on the overall and at the World Cup finals as well,” said Kershaw. “He had an amazing year but I think it was a reflection of how hard we both worked each race this year.

“To be second overall is crazy awesome and I’m just so proud and happy of what we accomplished as an entire team,” said Kershaw. “I’m not sure how many skiers — cross-country or alpine — have ever been second overall but it’s not perfection. My dream is to have one Canadian men’s skier on the Olympic podium. I don’t care who it is. I just want it to happen.”

It was an amazing season for the entire team — who’ve taken to calling themselves the Nordic Knights.

Kershaw got six medals, two gold, Sunday’s silver and three bronze. Harvey, 23, of St-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., had the second-fastest time Sunday and finished sixth overall in the Falun series (1:33:15.50) and sixth on the World Cup points list. He had a gold in Friday’s prologue — the first win of his career — a silver and a bronze this year.

And Len Valjas, 23, of Toronto, had a pair of bronze medals in the World Cup finals to go with the silver he won earlier in the season.

Norway’s Marit Bjoergen won the women’s World Cup finals tour in one hour nine minutes 50.10 seconds. Chandra Crawford of Canmore, Alta., was 31st in 1:15.40.10 and Daria Gaiazova of Banff was 41st in 1:17.27.50.

Canada won 14 medals this season, one less than the record of 15 in 2005-06 when Beckie Scott got to the podium nine times in individual races and once in a team event. Canada finished sixth as a nation on the 2011-12 World Cup and Kershaw became the first Canadian man to finish second overall.

Harvey won his first World Cup race, taking Friday’s 3.3 km prologue in Falun. Kershaw was third that day, making it the first time that two Canadian men had stood on the same podium in an individual race.

Valjas got his first World Cup medals. Crawford, the 2006 Olympic gold medallist in the sprint, returned to the World Cup podium with a silver. She also teamed with Perianne Jones to win bronze in a World Cup team sprint.

“What is going right now in our program and here in Sweden is really crazy,” summed up Canadian head coach Justin Wadsworth, who’d set a goal of 10 medals for the team.

“We came into these finals having accomplished most of our (season’s) goals in Norway earlier this month so we were very relaxed. This week was icing on the cake.”