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Solli (NOR) and Paredi (ITA) claim victory in FIS Roller Skiing World Cup 2010

FasterSkierSeptember 30, 2010

Italy’s Simone Paredi secured himself the overall season victory in the men’s standings during the final Roller Skiing World Cup weekend in Greece last weekend. On the ladies’ side, it was Guro Stroem Solli of Norway who won with a decisive margin in the overall standings. Paredi began his road to victory on Saturday by capturing second place in the mountain race. Paredi’s biggest challenge for overall victory came from Norway’s Ragnar Bragvin Andresen who...

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Summer DP test at BMD with Newell

FasterSkierSeptember 30, 2010

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Eating to Train: An Interview with USSA Dietician Adam Korzun
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Eating to Train: An Interview with USSA Dietician Adam Korzun

Nathaniel HerzSeptember 30, 20103

Bananas an hour prior to every race. Granola bars afterwards. Pasta the night before. As much as for any other aspect of the sport of cross-country skiing, there are dozens of beliefs, strategies, and misconceptions when it comes to food and nutrition. To clear a few of them up–but by no means all of them–we spoke with recently-appointed U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Sports Dietician Adam Korzun. A native of Alabama, Korzun has worked...

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Why I Love Skiing

FasterSkierSeptember 29, 2010

One sunny day in New Zealand we put on lots of sunblock, grabbed our skate skis and headed for the hills. We headed for the farthest-out point on the Snowfarm trail system, paralleling the groomed trail to stay out where the perfectly-smooth crust hadn’t been defaced by the groomer.  Soon we were out in the [...]

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Specific Strength at BMD

Sverre CaldwellSeptember 29, 2010

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Picking skis in Utah

FasterSkierSeptember 29, 2010

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In Which I Connect Triathlon Data To XC Pursuit Races

JoranSeptember 29, 2010

The connection is pretty obvious, actually.  Both are mass start races that involve switching activities at least once during the race.  The change in activities is certainly more extreme in triathlon, but you get my drift. Some people (like, say, me) complain on occasion that pursuit races in cross-country skiing place too great an emphasis [...] Related posts:

  1. How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the F-Factor (Part 1)
  2. Bjoern Daehlie vs Thomas Alsgaard
  3. More Tour de France Data Visualizations

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Buoyed By Trust Fund, Callaghan Valley Readies for Future
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Buoyed By Trust Fund, Callaghan Valley Readies for Future

FasterSkierSeptember 29, 2010

This article is the third in a series looking at the use of cross-country ski venues left behind by the Winter Olympics. The first two were on New York’s Lake Placid. After a Winter Olympics where nordic skiing took center stage, Whistler Olympic Park (WOP), 77 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia, faces the future with optimism, but with plans that are still murky. Cleaning up the detritus of the 2010 Games, including grandstands, transformers,...

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NCCSEF Steps Up Funding for 2011

Nathaniel HerzSeptember 29, 2010

If you’re planning on racing in Europe this winter on any of the trips supported by the National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation (NCCSEF), you can thank Jerry Gilbert. Gilbert, a retired electrical engineer and avid master skier, died of lymphoma in 2008, and in his will, he left some $80,000 for NCCSEF. The money took nearly two years to find its way to the organization, but now that it has, that donation should be supporting...

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My favorite workout 6*4m L4

BrianSeptember 28, 2010

The CXC Team and I are out in Lake Placid, NY for 17 days of training at the US Olympic Training Center.  After a summer of mostly easy-volume training and L3 intervals we finally had the chance to open it up with my favorite workout, on my favorite climb in New York. Outside of Keene, [...]

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Minnesota Budget Shortfalls Threaten St. Cloud Ski Team
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Minnesota Budget Shortfalls Threaten St. Cloud Ski Team

Nathaniel HerzSeptember 28, 201010

Yet another collegiate ski program is on the chopping block. Due to budget shortfalls in Minnesota, the St. Cloud State University cross-country ski program could be shuttered by the 2011-2012 season. The closure of that program is included in one of three cost-cutting measures being considered by university administrators, who will make a decision by December 6th. “After the last couple of years, when a bunch of schools out west have gone down, it’s not...

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