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After a three hour van drive, three plane rides, two nights and a lot of lost sleep, Colin and I finally made it to Vermont yesterday. Traveling during the holidays is always a gamble, but I was hopeful we wouldn't run into any weather or mechanical d...

HOUGHTON, Mich. – Registration for the 2011 USSA Michigan Tech Super Tour Event presented by Portage Health is now open. The event, January 28-30, will feature races for youth through professional skiers and everyone in between. All races are at the Michigan Tech Nordic Training Center, host of the 2006 Junior Olympics and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. National Championships. “Michigan Tech is proud to host the 2011 USSA Michigan Tech Super Tour Event presented...

Which Toko Glove is the Right One For You

Thermo WS Gore – Our best overall glove. This is a super warm, yet not bulky glove made with the finest materials for an optimal warmth to bulk ratio. Despite the glove’s warmth, it is super breathable and can be worn comfortably in warmer weather as well. Features: Windstopper fleece on back of hand, Clarino palms with silicone “grip”, box fingers, and cuff pull tab. Champion – Lightweight Racing Glove. This glove is made with...

2011 Tour of Anchorage

In its 24-year existence, the Tour of Anchorage cross-country ski race, hosted by the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage, has grown from just a few hundred participants to almost 2,000 ski- enthusiasts—making it one of the largest ski races in North America. This year’s event, slated for March 6th, will start at the foot of the Chugach Mountains and wind through beautiful birch and aspen forests, around the University of Anchorage campus, through Anchorage’s midtown...

December 21, 2010 – Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) announced Monday the student-athletes and coaches who will represent Canada in cross country skiing and biathlon at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. The 24th Winter World University Games will run from January 27 to February 6. The cross country skiing events get under way on Jan. 28, with the biathlon competitions kicking off a day later. Heading the Canadian cross country skiing delegation in Erzurum...

Pull on your wool sweaters lace up your leather boots and bring life back to your wooden skis and bamboo poles at the 4th Annual Mazama Wooden Ski Classic Tour and Race on December 31st New Years Eve.12pm Pine Tar Clinic and Registration1pm Tour/Race S...

Pull on your wool sweaters lace up your leather boots and bring life back to your wooden skis and bamboo poles at the 4th Annual Mazama Wooden Ski Classic Tour and Race on December 31st New Years Eve.12pm Pine Tar Clinic and Registration1pm Tour/Race S...

Pull on your wool sweaters lace up your leather boots and bring life back to your wooden skis and bamboo poles at the 4th Annual Mazama Wooden Ski Classic Tour and Race on December 31st New Years Eve.12pm Pine Tar Clinic and Registration1pm Tour/Race S...

Pull on your wool sweaters lace up your leather boots and bring life back to your wooden skis and bamboo poles at the 4th Annual Mazama Wooden Ski Classic Tour and Race on December 31st New Years Eve.12pm Pine Tar Clinic and Registration1pm Tour/Race S...

Pull on your wool sweaters lace up your leather boots and bring life back to your wooden skis and bamboo poles at the 4th Annual Mazama Wooden Ski Classic Tour and Race on December 31st New Years Eve.12pm Pine Tar Clinic and Registration1pm Tour/Race S...

I am now enjoying a two-week break from World Cup action after racing 9 times in the last three weeks.  Like last year, I have decided to spend the Holidays in Germany to avoid any extra travel.  I need as much time as possible to first recover and then put in a solid training block [...]

Picking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday.  Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last [...] Related posts:Gällivare Recap: North Americans Kuusamo WC Recap: North Americans Davos Recap: Distance – North Americans

Twenty-two years after the 1988 Winter Olympics, the Canmore Nordic Centre remains a model of legacy planning for Olympic cross-country venues. When it was built in 1986, Canmore set a new standard for nordic facilities, and when it was refurbished in 2005, the ski area redefined that standard. In his masters’ thesis, John-Christopher Reid called the 1988 Winter Olympics “…the single most significant precedent in terms of structuring Winter Olympic legacies in North America.”  Canmore...

The More the Better: Four More Biathletes Head to Europe after Minnesota Trials

With eleven athletes already racing in Europe – that’s more than the U.S. Ski Team can say – what could the U.S. biathlon community possibly ask for from their governing body? Well, if some is good, then more is better. After a second series of trials races in Mount Itasca, Minnesota, the U.S. Biathlon Association (USBA) named four more athletes to the IBU Cup roster (the series one level below the World Cup), as well...

Jericho, VT – The Ethan Allen Firing Range hosted today’s TD Bank Eastern Cup.  The original host, the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, had enough snow to pull of yesterday’s freestyle sprint on their own trails, but felt that moving to Jericho for the longer mass start classic races would provide the best possible racing conditions for the athletes.  They were right.  With temperatures in the mid-twenties, easy waxing, and a beautiful race course, smiles were everywhere at today’s events....