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Salt Lake City, Utah-September 20, 2010: In its continuing effort to aid the development of American cross country ski racers, the National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation (NCCSEF) will help support a racing and training trip to Finnish Lapland this coming November. The trip will offer select racers and coaches an opportunity to experience European racing intensity at the very outset of the 2010-11 competitive season. Will Sweetser, Director of Cross-Country Skiing at the Maine Winter...

Matt Liebsch and I went 1-2 in the half marathon this weekend in Wirth Park in Minneapolis.  It is pretty cool to do a trail marathon in an urban environment.  The pack started out hard and we pushed the pace the entire race.  Matt broke away at mile 7 and after letting him gap the [...]

Matt Liebsch and I went 1-2 in the half marathon this weekend in Wirth Park in Minneapolis.  It is pretty cool to do a trail marathon in an urban environment.  The pack started out hard and we pushed the pace the entire race.  Matt broke away at mile 7 and after letting him gap the [...]

Presque Isle’s Nordic Heritage Center Gets a New Look

Six months ago, the U.S. Nordic community descended on Presque Isle for the X-C skiing Jr. Nationals. Families, athletes, and staff from around the country experienced the best the communities in and around Presque Isle could dish out at the Nordic Heritage Center. Fast forward to September and we sit now only six months away from the next big event. The IBU Biathlon World Cup will come to the County not just for one WC,...

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At some point during last week’s fantastically awesome ski for which I do not have pictures, I started wondering whether I was on my best-ever rollerski. (While there is probably some debate over just what goes into making any workout the “best-ever”, which I’ll get to in a second, let’s remember that there is no debate over my best-ever snow ski. This day is still head and shoulders above anything else.) It was a long ski, which gave me plenty of time to think (that’s another topic – the wanderings of my mind while training – on which I could probably write sometime, but not right now), and here is what I’ve come up with.

Here’s what’s been happening at Statistical Skier this week: There’s another doping story in the news, providing plenty of red meat for commentary.  I humbly contributed some graphs of Pankratov’s results over the years, which hopefully provides some context for his ability level and career. Yeah, there’s some big bike race not in France still [...] Related posts:

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Vincent Defrasne is a French biathlete who retired this year (only one more of these after this one, I promise!).  I can find nine podium finishes throughout his career, including a gold at the Turin Olympics (12.5km pursuit) and a bronze at the 2007 World Biathlon Championships.  In addition to these individual accomplishments, he’s been a [...] Related posts:

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