The Telemark SuperTour in Cable, WI was another successful weekend of racing for the CXC Team Vertical Limit. Bryan Cook won the Men’s 10K Classic race on Saturday, followed by Matt Liebsch (CXC Team Vertical Limit), Brian Gregg (CXC Team Vertical Limit), and Chris Cook (Steinbock Racing). Rebecca Dussault (CXC Team Vertical Limit) won the [...]
The Telemark SuperTour in Cable, WI was another successful weekend of racing for the CXC Team Vertical Limit. Bryan Cook won the Men’s 10K Classic race on Saturday, followed by Matt Liebsch (CXC Team Vertical Limit), Brian Gregg (CXC Team Vertical Limit), and Chris Cook (Steinbock Racing). Rebecca Dussault (CXC Team Vertical Limit) won the [...]
Brian Gregg picked up two podium finishes in this weekend’s SuperTour in Telemark, WI. Racing for CXC, Gregg placed third in yesterday’s classic race and then outsprinted teammate Matt Liebsch for the win in today’s mass start skate race. Gregg took a break from packing his bags (flying to the Canmore World Cups) to give the scoop on today’s race. How did the race play out – when did the field spread out and when...
CABLE, Wis–Michigan Tech’s Oskar Lund and Northern Michigan’s Laura DeWitt each grabbed their second individual win of the year in the USSA Central Super Tour race at Telemark Ski Resort in Cable, Wisconsin. The 5/10k classic event was the start of the CCSA’s third qualifying weekend. Northern Michigan was sitting in first place on the men’s and women’s side after the first day of competition. In the men’s race, Oskar Lund triumphed on the 10-kilometer...
Jan. 31, 2010 — Sarah Hendrickson of the Visa U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team captured the bronze medal Saturday at the FIS Nordic Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten, Germany. The 15-year-old Hendrickson, who attends junior high in Park City, Utah, is the first American jumper to ever earn a medal at the Nordic Junior Worlds. “I don’t think it’s really settled in yet. I’m really happy. I had two really good jumps,” Hendrickson said. Italy’s...
Today’s mass start skate races were the second and final races of the Telemark, Winsconsin SuperTour weekend. In the men’s 15km Brian Gregg (CXC) outsprinted teammate Matt Liebsch by three tenths of a second for the win. Fifty-two seconds later there was another 5-way sprint for both the finish line and third place which was taken by Chris Cook of Steinbock Racing. Following Cook across the line in the next 2.6 seconds were fourth through...
SWEDEN TRIUMPHS WITH SVÄRD AND HANSSON. 70KM OF SUCCESS FOR THE 37TH MARCIALONGA – In the last meters, Svärd and Ahrlin ski away from Jörgen Aukland – In the women’s race Jenny Hansson races solo – In the “Light” (45km), Antonella Confortola and Fulvio Scola prevail Trentino, Italy Sweden triumphed in the 37th Marcialonga, the men’s race won for the first time by Oskar Svärd, and the women’s race won again by Jenny Hansson. Svärd...
div style="text-align: center;"Good day everyone! nbsp;And good luck to those racing Pia's Classic today at Kincaid! nbsp;Things are starting to ramp up at the Canmore Nordic Center...... more and more teams every day, different languages overheard on the trails. nbsp;It's sweet!nbsp;/divdiv style="text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"img alt="Cross-Country World Cup 2010" height="207" src="http://www.tourismcanmore.com/images_2010/layout_new/worldcup_banner.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="400" //divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"This is a picture of Chandra Crawford, the Canmore "hometown" girl - also the sprint Gold medalist from Torino. nbsp;It must be sweet to have the world's best skiers come to YOU to race! nbsp;How sweet would a World Cup in Anchorage be?!nbsp;/span/divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"br //divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"Canmore truly seems to be a nordic-oriented town. nbsp;There are poster advertisements every 5 feet downtown, even in vacant store front building. nbsp;/divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2XyS7-rGgI/AAAAAAAAAfc/19SpKv7OoAk/s1600-h/P1280030_50p.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2XyS7-rGgI/AAAAAAAAAfc/19SpKv7OoAk/s320/P1280030_50p.JPG" //a/divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"If you squint your eyes you may even be able to pick out Kikkan and her mom, Deb, complete with pink hat and scarf! nbsp;I took a picture of one - sorry for the glare./span/divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"br //span/divdiv id="right_col" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"Training went really well today. nbsp;I've been feeling pretty junky the last couple of days due to a hard week of training, followed by three days off (I NEVER take three days off!), long travel, and then arriving at altitude. nbsp;Today I did 6x45-60 seconds at 10k race pace on the race course and felt great once I got up to speed. nbsp;I've had that sensation a lot this year - feeling bad at low speeds and distance pace, and feeling awesome at Level 3, 4, and 5. nbsp;Erik says that it's beacuse my "high end race muscles" are in shape. nbsp;I suppose that's a good thing! It's funny because I think that a lot of ski racers want to feel really good all the time. nbsp;One thing I've learned this year is that you don't have to feel good to race well.br /br /If you are curious about following Friday and Saturday's World Cup races (I'm starting both) you can find links to startlists and results on the Alberta World Cup Academy website here:br /br /http://www.albertaworldcup.com/main.phpbr /br /Here are just a couple more fun pictures to end the post with....br /br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2X6LFJrjnI/AAAAAAAAAfk/6JMlpYS70Hk/s1600-h/Can%27s+O+TV+.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2X6LFJrjnI/AAAAAAAAAfk/6JMlpYS70Hk/s320/Can%27s+O+TV+.JPG" //abr /br /The media is starting to show up...br /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2X6ZamhW7I/AAAAAAAAAfs/v8Y6UZQX8eI/s1600-h/through+my+glasses.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2X6ZamhW7I/AAAAAAAAAfs/v8Y6UZQX8eI/s320/through+my+glasses.JPG" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"Can you see the venue in the reflection of my glasses!?/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br /a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2X62jpgCaI/AAAAAAAAAf0/BAa678lIH_A/s1600-h/Holly%27s+Wed+class-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl4EmOZ6xTM/S2X62jpgCaI/AAAAAAAAAf0/BAa678lIH_A/s320/Holly%27s+Wed+class-1.jpg" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"This is my women's only group that had to put up with having a male coach for the second time this year last Wednesday. Sorry girls.... and thanks Casey for leading. (Thanks to Gail French for the pic and thanks to Gail French and Gail Hoefler for the beautiful leis!)nbsp;/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"More to come including pictures from the venue...nbsp;/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"Enjoy your day!nbsp;/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"Holly :)nbsp;/divbr //divbr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6401505974719455979-3218059298465194023?l=hollyskis.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
I’ve taken a pretty long, and indirect journey back from last June’s knee surgery. While rehab went extremely well, it was slow and at times tested my patience, both mentally and physically. I decided fairly early on in the recovery process that I was not going to rush back into a heavy load of training [...]
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The top 60 racers from yesterday’s sprint qualified to start in pursuit format for today’s World Junior/Youth Biathlon Championships in Torsby, Sweden. The last race of the Championships will be a team relay on Tuesday. Junior Men Leif Nordgren moved closer to the top of the results in today’s 12.5km pursuit, but was weighted with 5 penalties which kept him from closing in on the podium. After placing 6th in yesterday’s sprint, Nordgren started 47...
Like the women’s relay here, the men’s relay at the World Junior Championships today came down to to the wire. And just like in the women’s race, it was Norway that prevailed. As he attacked the last rise, Finn Krogh was able to do something nobody has done yet here: drop Russia’s Petr Sedov in a mass start race. With a Northug-like kick, Krogh propelled the Norwegian men to their first junior relay championship since...
The top 5 teams in both men and women’s divisions of the team relays in Kuopio, Finland looked strikingly similar. In the women’s race it was, 1st-5th: Norway 1, Finland, Sweden, Sweden 2, and Norway 2. In the men’s race it was, 1st-5th: Norway 1, Sweden 1, Norway 2, Finland, and Sweden 2. The format was a 3x3km for women and 3x5km for men, the first leg of each was classical and the last two...
With pursuit champion Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg and sprint champion Hanna Brodin anchoring their respective teams, today’s women’s relay race was primed for a showdown. Oestberg, a Norwegian, had proven to be one of the strongest distance skiers here at the World Junior Championships after winning the pursuit, while Brodin, a Swede had dominated the sprint. The 3.3k distance was right in between the two disciplines. They received the tag ten seconds apart, with Oestberg in...
... preparing for the Olympics by ski touring in the mountains.This was Sara Renner's comment to Devon and I as we reached our high point for the day at 2700 meters on a unique high altitude training session last week. Devon and Sara had both just rece...
... preparing for the Olympics by ski touring in the mountains.This was Sara Renner's comment to Devon and I as we reached our high point for the day at 2700 meters on a unique high altitude training session last week. Devon and Sara had both just rece...
... preparing for the Olympics by ski touring in the mountains.This was Sara Renner's comment to Devon and I as we reached our high point for the day at 2700 meters on a unique high altitude training session last week. Devon and Sara had both just rece...
... preparing for the Olympics by ski touring in the mountains.This was Sara Renner's comment to Devon and I as we reached our high point for the day at 2700 meters on a unique high altitude training session last week. Devon and Sara had both just rece...