It is always a good time at the end of each season to sit down and review what happened and how we could modify our training to produce better results next season. As a masters skier with family and job commitments I don’t have access to the latest laboratory testing. A lot of review is done by feel and being honest with myself. Oh yes and my wife helped me by giving me a heart...
Neither Per Elofsson nor Mathias Fredriksson is participating in the Swedish team’s ongoing altitude camp in Livignio, Italy Source: Skidsport.com http://www.skidsport.com/
This winter the Junior World Championships will be combined into one event with the World Under-23 World Championships. The event will take place in Kranj, Slovenia from January 31 until February 5. The schedule is posted at pvordenberg@ussa.org Selection criteria for athletes is posted at
Humans performing one-legged hops uphill; running through the woods carrying “sticksâ€, at levels ranging from conversational pace, to all out, red in the face exertion; braving the pavement on two wheeled skis on a country road… what must the reindeer have thought? Though at first glance it would appear that the some type of bizarre show had come to the area, the reality was this is how avid Nordic skiers spent one weekend in September…...
In January of the 2007 FIS has decided to create a circuit of 8 races called Tour de Ski 2007. The races will be carried out one each day from the 5th to the 14th of January and will be all count towards the 2006/2007 World Cup. The event wil consist of sprint races, classic distance races, and mass start races. For each race, skiers will win points and accumulate total time in competition for...
Last season’s 50-kilometer silver medallist at Worlds, Anders Aukland beat the Norwegian cross country running champion and several elite skiers to win the Mosviksenderen running hill climb last weekend. Source: Langrenn.com Aukland won by beating the Norwegian cross country running champion, Trond Idland and setting a new course record of 20.54, an improvement of the old record by 1 minute and 4 seconds. The women’s race was won by runner Anita Hakenstad Evertsen in 25,17....
Swedish head coach Inge Braaten wants sharper elbows and tougher race attitude from the Swedish national team skiers. Source: Skidsport.com Inge Braaten, what is the biggest difference between the Swedish and Norwegian skiers at elite level? – That would be that the Swedish skiers are too careful and too nice. They have to learn that Norwegians are their worst competitors, and I will try to steer the development toward making the Swedes tougher in competitions....
“No More Excusesâ€. The US ski coaching community comes together, gets over its inferiority complex, and agrees, they can make US skiers “Best in the World”. NENSA staff members Patrick Cote and Dorcas Wonsavage recently attended the US National Cross country Ski Coaches Conference in Lake Placid, NY. The Conference was attended by over 85 coaches, from Fairbanks, AK to Stockholm, ME, and included high school coaches, collegiate, club and US Ski Team coaches. This...
FasterSkier.com did eight workouts in five days with Canadian National team skier and 2002 Olympic gold medalist Beckie Scott last week. We asked her some questions and included some photos from the workouts. Beckie, can you give us an update as to how your summer has gone and where you are in your training right now? – For the most part, things have gone really well. Spring was fairly typical for me with lots of...
Evi Stehle (formerly Sachenbacher) and Jens Filbrich were fastest in the annual German fall skate rollerski time-trial on Sunday. Source xc-ski.de and Skidsport.com The women skied 9-kilometer and Evi Stehle dominated by beating Claudia Kunzel Nystad by 50 seconds. Third was as in Saturday’s running time-trial, Steffi Bohler. The men raced 15-kilometer and Jen Filbrich won by 7.4 seconds over Axel Teichman. Filbrich started 15 seconds behind Teichman and caught him early. They pushed the...
The 2005 National Coaches Conference is almost over. Friday evening and Saturday were packed full of information, discussions, and yes a little bit of fun… Fridays highlights included a great tech night from all the industry sponsors, party sponsored by Swix, and a huge raffle… Saturday morning was filled with technical presentations on training and athlete development. USST athletes Kris Freeman and Torin Koos both spoke to the group. In the afternoon the coaches went...
The Swedish team for the sprint World Cup opener in Dusseldorf is ready. Peter Larsson is again selected. Will he capture his fourth victory in a row? Source: Skidsport.com The Swedish A-team is currently at a training camp at 1800 meter in Livigno, Italy. Dryland training is now on the agenda, like on Monday when the team biked over four of the highest peaks you can bike up to in Europe. Among others up to...
The annual German fall test is taking place this weekend. Tobias Angerer won the men’s running time-trial while Claudia Kunsel Nystad won the women’s event on Saturday. The German team is as usual putting in solid training. This weekend is the annual fall test for all German youth, juniors and World Cup skiers. Source: xc-ski.de and Skidsport.com The men ran 10-kilometer in tough terrain at the Grenzadler stadium and Tobias Angerer won ahead of Andres...
An awesome race! mass start, up a huge climb. the guys were HURTING!!! I've never seen guys like this look behind them so many times. Bird said – “This was a good lesson in going out too hard, I got a big lead early on the climb ahead of Simons, but he and Flora started coming too close for comfort in the last pitch”. Power struggle Waiting for the athletes to return Zack Simons can...