USSA hosted the annual USSA Conference during the third week of May. Several NENSA staff members attended and NENSA's Janice Sabila posted the following report on NENSA.net. Park City is an interesting place. Still a lot of snow in the mountains and in fact, it snowed the day before I arrived! While the majority of the time is spent in meetings, we did get outdoors for a few early morning runs in the foothills. Great...
Welcome to a special edition of the Nordic Dave Adventure Series. It's been a cold wet spring on top of an epic winter. Today 'ol nordic wanted to check out the High Unita's up on the Mirror Lake Hwy. A possible launching point for a multi day adventure from Mirror Lake to Kings Peak and just how much snow as there? (Mirror Lake Hwy jpg) Finding the highway giving up to snow at Trial Lake,...
Central Cross Country Ski Association is pleased to announce the 2008 Coaches Conference organized in conjunction with the CXC Regional Elite Camp on June 30 — July 2, 2008. “This is a great opportunity for coaches at all levels to learn and observe how US National Team coaches work on technique with top athletes. Presentations will be focused on planning the training process, progress identification and training adaptation analysis as well as presentations by US...
The Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports the following: Kari-Pekka Kyrö, the former head coach of the Finnish national skiing team, was interviewed by the office of the Prosecutor General in Jyväskylä on Tuesday. The interview was sparked by a news item on the commercial television channel Nelonen alleging widespread sports doping in the association in the 1990s. It has now been reported that Kyrö himself was one of the sources for the item on sports...
ASPEN, CO — The Lost Man Loop on Independence Pass is one of Colorado’s favorite day hikes and spring ski tours, topping out at an altitude of 12,800 feet high above Aspen. Normally skied by driving to the trailhead as soon as the pass opens, my wife Natalie and I decided to give it a try even though heavy snow has kept Independence closed for another week. To make this adventure happen, we packed up...
National Cross Country Ski Education Foundation (NCCSEF) announced today the award of ten $1500 grants to US Elite Athletes under the age of 25. These grants were made possible due to the $24,000 of donations raised in the NCCSEF U25 Stanley Grant Challenge for this ski season. This program depends on donations from supporters of US Cross Country Ski Racing. Hal Stanley has pledged at least another two years of matching your donations to allow...
Pepa Miloucheva is the head coach at the Craftsbury Nordic Ski Club. Over the past years she has coached some of the fastest skiers in the country. A World Champion in Ski Orienteering, she is also an experienced Masters coach. This article isn’t about what the right technique is; it’s about how to get there. There are many articles about cross-country ski technique. Most are very good, with emphasis on important technique points and drills...
As the summer training season kicks into high gear, FasterSkier will be presenting a series of articles revolving around different aspects of roller-skiing. Today we start with a look at when to start roller-skiing in the spring. Upcoming highlights include a piece by Pepa Miloucheva on technique and the transition from snow to dryland and vice versa, and a critique of skate technique by Dick Taylor. June is almost upon us, and if you haven’t...
A group of eight retired and current female ski jumpers have filed a lawsuit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC). The suit calls for the inclusion of women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympic Games and that by allowing only men to jump in the 2010 Games, the organizers are breaking Canadian laws guaranteeing equal rights. Nearly all sports in the Summer and Winter Games have both men's and women's events, and the International Olympic...
Monday morning was sunny. Temps overnight got into the upper 20's in the high country and the crust cruising was excellent. Things started to get a little slow around 9:30 due to the fresh snow that had fallen over the past couple of days. The trailhead picture where we started skiing is 3.5 miles up a good road from Crested Butte! It is sure great to still be skiing this close to town. This is...
The following schedule is still tentative and subject to change. According to USSA Nordic Director John Farra, the Canadian team will be racing in West Yellowstone and Bozeman, and top US skiers will travel to Whistler, British Columbia in mid-December. Additionally, the SuperTour will travel to New England in mid-February, splitting up the usual string of races in the mid-west. Date Location Comments Nov. 28-29 West Yellowstone MT SuperTour 10/15 C 5/10km F Dec. 2...
Hot off the video-production line, check out this multi-media photo compilation of some of the best images from the 2008 Cross Country Ski Junior Olympics at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska. With over 200 photos of skiers from Maine to California to Alaska – and all points in between – this one is the most comprehensive JO slideshow videos ever made, with music from Sick Puppies, Relient K, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bon Jovi,...
The Mansfield Nordic Club is seeking an experienced coach for a year ‘round training program. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to take charge of a previously all volunteer program and build a strong training/racing club. A charismatic personality and entrepreneurial spirit are a must, as this position offers full autonomy to innovate, create and build. MNC has BKSL, Junior and Masters programs that have thrived individually for many years with volunteer organizers. All...
Marshall Greene and Sarah Max, both of Bend, won the famous Pole Pedal Paddle in the men's and women's elite fields, respectively. The event, which has been held since 1976, consists of five different sports – an alpine ski down Mt. Bachelor, an 8km Nordic, a 22 mile road bike, a 10km run, 1.5 mile canoe/kayak and a final 1/3 of a mile sprint on foot to the finish line. Alpina/Madshus' Green won his third...
For the first time since the austral winter of 2002, nordic skiing is beginning in May near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Thanks to a few small snows and a recent huge dump, there are “at least 40 centimeters in the lowest parts, a meter in most parts,†at the Francisco Jerman Ski Area, according to local skier and Club Andino Ushuaia member, Sebastián Menci. When the same May snow happened in 2002, nordic skiing...
The organizers of the 2012 FIS Ski Flying World Championships and the 2013 FIS Alpine, Nordic, Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships will be elected by the FIS Council on Thursday, May 29th. The announcement of the elected organizers will take place at the Westin Grand in Cape Town (RSA) at approximately 19:00 CET. FISh is pleased to present brief portraits of the five candidates for the 2013 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (in alphabetical order)....
FasterSkier.com’s Spring Video Contest: “From Packed to Powder and Everything in Between†The 2007/2008 Season. All the contestants have gone head to head, and there was a mad dash to the line with a photo finish. In the end Dylan Dethier toed the line first to top the video contest podium. First Place (Prize: A Swix T73 Iron) “Mt. Greylock 2007-2008 Ski Video,” By: Dylan DethierSecond Place (Prize: Swix CH 6 (180g), LF 7 and...
World Cup Win Boosts Randall to Cross Country Athlete of Year Another athlete who marked her page in ski history, Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) was the recipient of the 2008 USSA Cross Country Athlete of the Year award. Randall adapted a “no guts, no glory” mentality in the 2008 season, which led her to become the first U.S. woman in the 27-year history of cross country World Cup to win. She grabbed a victory at the...
PARK CITY, Utah (May 16) APU Nordic Ski Center Honored as Cross Country Club The Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center, under the leadership of the USSA's Domestic Coach of the Year Erik Flora (Anchorage) was recognized as the USSA Cross Country Club of the Year. APU, which has operated a training center for cross country skiers for ten years, has worked on training and developing some of the nations most talented Nordic skiers. The...
ANCHORAGE (May 15) – The sound of ski poles clinking together will replace the ring of wedding bells as the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team's Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) marries Canadian skier Jeff Ellis on Friday. Randall made history in the 2008 season when she became the first U.S. woman to win a World Cup cross country race. “It's been a fun build up to this point and I hope it doesn't happen too fast so...