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...
Marit Bjørgen takes her second win at Blinkfestivalen
WebSkis.com, the US distributor for Pro-Ski Rollerskis and Solda ski wax, is offering a drawing for a pair of Pro-Ski S5E skate rollerskis. To be eligible for this opportunity all you need to do is become a Facebook friend of WebSkis before August 1, 2010. On August 2, the folks at WebSkis will do the drawing and post the winner on the WebSkis Facebook page and the WebSkis website. The ProSki S5E skate rollerski was...
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Day 1 of the annual ski celebration Blinkfestivalen in Sandnes, Norway: SANDNES – Øystein Pettersen enjoys the town of Sandnes in southwestern Norway. Home to the annual ski celebration Blinkfestivalen, where skiers and biathletes from all over the world come to compete on roller skis in the city center. Friday, Pettersen defended his champion title from last year’s festival when he won the 15K roller ski race.Pettersen initiated the sprint early and cruised across the...
Cycling and the Tour de France have invaded Statistical Skier this week. If you’ve been tuning in here for the skiing content and find this trend distressing, you can console yourself with the fact that the Tour will end soon. On the other hand, I’ve enjoyed the cycling stage race graphics and so I have [...] Related posts:
Earlier this week I introduced an idea I had for calculating a points-like measure for sprint racing that was applicable beyond the qualification round. You can go back and review the methodology here. In this post I’d like to revisit this idea and look at how these new points look when ranking athletes. First, I [...] Related posts:
With the help of regional coaches attending the camps, the U.S. Ski Team coaching staff has selected the top athletes from all four Regional Elite Group (REG) camps (East, Central, West and Alaska) and names these athletes to the National Elite Group (NEG). These athletes are offered the opportunity to train alongside the U.S. Ski Team athletes at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center October 9-17th. Attributes such as motivation, dedication, general physical fitness and...
This may be the only website where a post about the benefits of barefoot running is followed by a post about the excitement of stock car racing. . . Our July Camp wrapped up last weekend and Brian, Karl, Eric and I decided to take a 24 hour adventure up to the Chequamegon Peninsula on Lake [...]
Wilmington, MA – Swix Sport USA, the world leader in ski and snowboard accessories has entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Sport Import AS of Norway to become the exclusive distributor of Swenor brand roller skis and accessories for the U.S. market. Like Swix, Swenor will also be a supplier to the U.S. Ski Team. “The Swenor category will further assist us in accomplishing our “strategic goal” of becoming the premier snow sport accessory...
Just recently the guys at FasterSkier and the Nordic Commentary Project got together for a podcast, where they discussed a range of topics in international ski racing. One topic that they touched upon was the fact that cross country skiing has an ever increasing number of race formats. I listened with interest to that section, [...] Related posts:
div style="text-align: left;"Last weekend we had a classic team sprint race downtown Anchorage. We put together two pretty competitive APU woman's teams that battled head to head between the rounds. Becca and I were teamed up against team pink- Katie Ronsee and Greta Anderson. In the semi-finals Katie and Greta finished a strong 16 seconds ahead of us, so Becca and I were forced to readjust our strategy. We decided to just go like hell from the gun for the two laps each of the Final round and not worry about conserving energy. Fortunately our plan worked out, this time taking the win and crossing the finish line 44 seconds ahead of team pink. br //divdivbr //divdivThe boys race was fun to watch as well. National Champ, Tyler Kornfield, and David Norris went up against the Hanneman brothers who held their ground quite nicely. With a tight race up until the last lap where Reese Hanneman put down some quick pulling- the Hannemans pulled through ahead. /divdivbr //divdivIt was fun to see the people putting it on get so into it. They even had an announcer for the finishing area.! Fun stuff. One of the mothers at the race caught some shots below./divdivbr //divdivOne more week of training in town and then we head up to the glacier for our last on snow training camp./divdivbr //divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TEivk3SQXfI/AAAAAAAAAZo/q4DDPb-pl00/s1600/rollerski+2.jpg"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TEivk3SQXfI/AAAAAAAAAZo/q4DDPb-pl00/s320/rollerski+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496836393056361970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"Racing around the 1.3km loopbr //divdivbr //divdiva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TEivdzA5enI/AAAAAAAAAZg/h7z0CQO_A8s/s1600/rollerski+1.jpg"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TEivdzA5enI/AAAAAAAAAZg/h7z0CQO_A8s/s320/rollerski+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496836271650732658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " //a/divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TEivwRlVJFI/AAAAAAAAAZw/Cy3ejK-Z570/s1600/rollerski+3.jpg"img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TEivwRlVJFI/AAAAAAAAAZw/Cy3ejK-Z570/s320/rollerski+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496836589094249554" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"Tag off exchanges between partnersbr //divdivbr //divdivbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2018521813175454198-4171675796107696114?l=sadiebjornsen.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Inspired by the slightly different charts found here, a chart of a different flavor today. At that link, Martin has wisely adjusted plots of time back for each stage by the median. I’ve taken that idea and plotted the time back in the GC category for each stage, but I’ve split it up by team [...] Related posts:
If you just can’t get enough FasterSkier, and need a way to untether your ski addiction from your computer, you are in luck. FasterSkier podcasts are now available on iTunes. This means you can easily subscribe to the podcasts and transfer them to your iPod. What better way to pass an over distance workout or a long drive? Well we can think of quite a few actually, but it can never hurt to have options....
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While most of the Northern Hemisphere , notably central Europe has been experiencing an unusually long heat wave which has even led to earlier than planned closures of some glacier ski resorts in the very North, the Southern Hemisphere has seen a promisingly cold start to the winter. Continuing cold with snow flurries have helped create an excellent basis for the season. For example Mt Hotham in Australia reports that so far this winter it...
The start of the FIS Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix 2010 is approaching rapidly. The competitions in Oberstdorf (GER) are scheduled for 7th-8th August whilst Oberwiesenthal (GER) will serve as the second host venue on 13th-14th August. The 2010 edition of the Summer Grand Prix will feature a few changes. One of the main changes is that as response to feedback especially from the athletes, the cross-country competitions will be held on roller skis rather...
The Final Stage of the FIS Tour de Ski 2010/11, the infamous Alpe Cermis in Val di Fiemme (ITA) will be very special this time around. Traditionally, the Final Climb features the overall decision in one of the season’s main highlight events in Cross-Country Skiing. This year, a popular race for a limited number of starters will be organized that will follow the same course as the stars including Petter Northug, Charlotte Kalla, Lukas Bauer...