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2010 March 21

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There’s one way to guarantee yourself a good result in a biathlon race: hit all the targets. In the men’s 15 k mass start World Cup in Oslo, Russia’s Ivan Tcherezov was the only one of 30 starters to do so, and he won, by 26 seconds, over Austria’s Christoph Sumann and Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen. From the first loop and first shooting stage, Tcherezov was in the hunt, ensconced in a big group and...

The weather was wicked and the snow was falling extremely hard and sideways which dampened the feeling of the final race of the season. It was anything but spring time skiing. The coaches were skiing on the course to try to flatten some of the insane snowfall occurring so the athletes would have such a [...]

a href="http://web.me.com/brorabaugh/iWeb/Becca%27s%20site/Blog/A790BAF2-E900-44AC-8437-A8A0C48E2B7A_files/IMG_0761_1.jpg"img src="http://web.me.com/brorabaugh/iWeb/Becca%27s%20site/Blog/Images/IMG_0761.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:130px; height:130px;"//aToday it’s been so beautifully sunny, I think that I managed to fully sun burn my whole face. Except my forehead, but there may be time for that later. I do know that I skied way too long and didn’t mean to. That doesn’t happen too often, I am quite fastidious about doing the exact workout that I

Currier Wraps Up Championships With Mass Start Win

It doesn’t happen that often, but when Russell Currier gets hot on the range, there’s not a lot that can stop him. The Maine native is a notoriously fast skier—but also a notoriously inconsistent shooter. Sunday, at the North American Biathlon Championships, he wasn’t exactly on fire—more of a slow burn, perhaps—but the fifteen of twenty targets he hit was just enough to net him a satisfying win in the 15 k mass start race,...

The final weekend of the European "OPA" Cup tour brought us to Rogla, Slovenia. We were greeted by a massive blizzard and strong winds in the first several days so we spent got to spend spend some time trudging through the snow. Here's the Spanish team coaches shoveling a path to get to the door of their wax trailer. We stayed in cabins near a mall-like hotel that had everything from polka

Dunklee Deprives Barnes-Colliander of Third Straight Title in Fort Kent

Seven penalties would normally be enough to take a biathlete out of a race. Not Susan Dunklee. In the North American Biathlon Championships 12.5 k mass start, Dunklee overcame some sketchy shooting to win a sprint finish with Tracy Barnes-Colliander, who was deprived of her third straight victory. It was the first North American championship for Dunklee, and it looked impossible after she missed six of her first ten shots—three penalties in each of the...

I have to admit that I have already been out on the rollerskis this spring. Gross. And its not that I don't like rollerskiing. In fact I think most of the time it is at least as enjoyable as skiing on snow (especially compared to all the time spent skiing at -15 degrees), which is good considering the ski season only lasts 3 months (4 if we're lucky). But I usually don't break out the rollerskis for a couple more weeks. Technically I didn't break out emmy/em rollerskis yet, but on Friday morning Nichole and I were up at my parents' house and she had a 13 mile run planned. I wanted to come along, but my legs were really feeling the previous 6 days running (after no running the previous month). My knees can take only so much pounding, and they were telling me that this should not be running day #7. Fortunately my dad has the same size feet, and after a little scrounging I found some old combi boots, a pair of poles, and the Marwes. Soon we were off, and I double-poled and single-sticked along while Nichole ran with the dog. Nice and easy. It was probably not such a bad thing training-wise -the reason I stay off the rollerskis for a month or so after the ski season is more for the mental break than anything physical, and this rollerski was very relaxing. It was a preview of the next 8 months.br /br /Side note: Ski racing season is not finished on the world cup. How would you like to be the a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ts7UYQXxts"back of Brian Gregg's legs?/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-2633976920860213986?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

Clear cold nights, warm sunny days, endless potato fields, Northern Maine...what do you get? Amazing crust skiing!!! This morning was one of those perfect crust skiing days. While the temperature was cool at the start of the ski, the radiating sun q...

The entire pack was more or less together at 4.5km going into the bridge.  Then things got messy.  This made me so mad.  I have been feeling really good in my classic skiing and had great skis.  I was sitting around 40th and skiing comfortable. I am usually pretty good at anticipating the flow of traffic [...]