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Run For Snow to Benefit Liebsch

FasterSkierJuly 27, 2010

All proceeds from the 2010 Run For Snow will go towards the Central Cross Country Ski Association (a 501(c)3 not for profit corporation) to support opportunities for talented athletes to pursue athletic excellence in the Winter Olympic Games. This year the Run for Snow will again raise funds to adopt CXC Team Vertical Limit member, 2009 U.S. Natonal Championships Bronze medalist and winner of the 2009 American Birkebeiner 52K Skate race. Matt, father of two future skiers, will...

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Korzun Named Sports Dietician

FasterSkierJuly 27, 2010

PARK CITY, UT (July 26) – Focusing on nutrition as one of the keys to athletic success, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) has named Adam Korzun as sports dietician, according to High Performance Director Troy Flanagan. Korzun has worked with the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding for the past two years through the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and joined the USSA full-time earlier this summer. “We are thrilled to have someone...

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Last Chance to Win Swix Triacs!

FasterSkierJuly 27, 2010

Time flies in the high-paced world of cross-country skiing, and it is once again time for our bi-weekly newsletter, the Start List.  That means today is the last day to sign-up to be eligible to win a pair of new Swix Triac ski poles!  Every registered recipient of the Start List is entered in the drawing. Two weeks ago we gave away a pair of Fischer Hole Skis.  The winner actually thought he was receiving...

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Elliott Wins U-23 Title While Pulling Double Duty
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Elliott Wins U-23 Title While Pulling Double Duty

Linnaea KershawJuly 27, 20107

Tad Elliott’s busy schedule didn’t stopped him from picking up an U-23 title this July at the U.S. Mountain Bike Nationals in Granby, Colorado. “It went really well. My goal was to win but it was still a surprise. Everyone else was so strong,” said the 22-year old. After winning the U-23 title, he also raced the short track race in the Elite Men category. In the middle of the race, he was in 6th...

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What Happens To Successful World Junior Racers?
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What Happens To Successful World Junior Racers?

Nathaniel HerzJuly 27, 2010

Identifying talent in endurance athletics at a young age can be a challenging task.  My goal in this article is to give you a sense of what different levels of success at WJC/U23s might indicate and how much variability there is between athletes in this respect. Our basic tool will be a graph of FIS points versus age for distance results, broken down by their best result (finishing place) at WJC/U23s.  This gives us a...

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Tour de France Graphs: Fancy Versions

JoranJuly 26, 2010

Here are the final, updated versions of the fancy, animated sprint and mountain points “graph” and the plot of riders who didn’t finish the Tour with mouse-over text added. Remember, Chrome, Safari or Opera are the best browsers to use for these.  I don’t think any of these work with Internet Explorer and the animated [...] Related posts:

  1. Tour de France Bump Charts (Updated)
  2. Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14
  3. Stand Back! This Graph Is Alive!

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Most Improved: Men’s Sprint

JoranJuly 26, 2010

Now that I’ve introduced Distributed Sprint Points (DSPs), an alternate measure of sprint race performance, we’ll go ahead and give it a trial run, warts and all.  Since DSP is decidedly still in the experimental phase, take this with a hefty grain of salt. My procedure will mostly track what I did to measure the [...] Related posts:

  1. Most Improved: Men’s Distance
  2. Most Improved: Women’s Distance
  3. Most Unimproved Men: Distance

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Pat Casey to Head Holderness XC Program

FasterSkierJuly 26, 2010

HOLDERNESS, NH—Pat Casey, the former Continental Cup coach for the U.S. Ski Team, has been hired to head up the nordic ski program for the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The former NCAA All-American skier has coached the national team’s Continental Cup racers since 2006. He has also coached two World Championship Teams, headed up the U23 Championship Team program for the past four years, run Regional Elite Group (REG)camps throughout the country, and...

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On The Road

FasterSkierJuly 26, 2010

I’m taking off this morning for our five-week Europe camp in Italy, Austria and Germany.  Although it has been great to be home for the past few months, I am excited to hit the road again and train in some new places. The past few weeks of training went well with no major setbacks.  I [...]

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Red Group Racing 2010-07-26 07:02:56

FasterSkierJuly 26, 2010

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Devon Kershaw Answers the Eternal Question: Who Would Win the Hushovd-Northug Cage Match?

Kieran JonesJuly 26, 20105

There are few sports that can challenge the intensity of cross-country skiing, but cycling is one of them. Anyone who has ever pedaled a road bike uphill–which includes almost all cross-country skiers–can appreciate the difficulty of the Tour de France, and as such, we decided to get some perspective on the race from Canadian Olympian Devon Kershaw. Kershaw himself is no stranger to the bicycle–Carlos Barredo-style? DK: Haha, Barredo was classic. Using the wheel for...

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Pros of Tomorrow: Ida Sargent

Nathaniel HerzJuly 26, 2010

Before last year, Ida Sargent had had a handful of strong results, but the only way you wouldn’t have heard her name by the end of the 2009-2010 season is if you’d been buried in a snowbank. Sargent, who split her winter competing for the Craftsbury Green Racing Project and the Dartmouth Ski Team, started out with some top-10s in the early season SuperTours, then really heated up at the national championships in Anchorage, where...

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Club Med for JackedUp

FasterSkierJuly 25, 2010

My place of WorkGoing out for a ride in the 100degr heat breathing copious amounts of dust and diesel exhaust.Using the "Ergominator" Never nearly enoughShelter close bySince May I have been at a place as close to Club Med as I will ever get. I am som...

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Club Med for JackedUp

FasterSkierJuly 25, 2010

My place of WorkGoing out for a ride in the 100degr heat breathing copious amounts of dust and diesel exhaust.Using the "Ergominator" Never nearly enoughShelter close bySince May I have been at a place as close to Club Med as I will ever get. I am som...

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Club Med for JackedUp

FasterSkierJuly 25, 2010

My place of WorkGoing out for a ride in the 100degr heat breathing copious amounts of dust and diesel exhaust.Using the "Ergominator" Never nearly enoughShelter close bySince May I have been at a place as close to Club Med as I will ever get. I am som...

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