Here is a video of our big ride in France. Thanks to Billy Demong for putting it together and everyone else for getting the photos and video! There was some epic views and 11,000 feet of climbing up roads! Who wants to join next year? [...]
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Here is a video of our big ride in France. Thanks to Billy Demong for putting it together and everyone else for getting the photos and video! There was some epic views and 11,000 feet of climbing up roads! Who wants to join next year? [...]
Here is a video of our big ride in France. Thanks to Billy Demong for putting it together and everyone else for getting the photos and video! There was some epic views and 11,000 feet of climbing up roads! Who wants to join next year? [...]
Here is a video of our big ride in France. Thanks to Billy Demong for putting it together and everyone else for getting the photos and video! There was some epic views and 11,000 feet of climbing up roads! Who wants to join next year? [...]
Whittier Sightseeing!
FasterSkierJuly 31, 2011
We had an afternoon off during the dryland portion of the camp and it was the perfect timing for a Dartmouth reunion and sightseeing trip with Anchorage native Eric Packer. Eric took Sophie Caldwell, Rosie Brennan, and I to the port town of Whittier. It was about a 45 minute drive to a 6 mile [...]
Running the Inca Trail With Two Olympians
Mr. PeruJuly 31, 2011
This is an article I did recently for livinginperu.com about my Inca Trail adventure with Roberto Carcelen and Martin Koukal. I'll be giving you some more insider information on this in upcoming posts. Peru's first winter Olympian, Roberto Carcelen, called me up recently with the question I dread to hear from professional athletes. "Hey, what's your fitness level?" For the record, my fitness
Running the Inca Trail With Two Olympians
Mr. PeruJuly 31, 2011
This is an article I did recently for livinginperu.com about my Inca Trail adventure with Roberto Carcelen and Martin Koukal. I'll be giving you some more insider information on this in upcoming posts. Peru's first winter Olympian, Roberto Carcelen, called me up recently with the question I dread to hear from professional athletes. "Hey, what's your fitness level?" For the record, my fitness
Running the Inca Trail With Two Olympians
Mr. PeruJuly 31, 2011
This is an article I did recently for livinginperu.com about my Inca Trail adventure with Roberto Carcelen and Martin Koukal. I'll be giving you some more insider information on this in upcoming posts. Peru's first winter Olympian, Roberto Carcelen, called me up recently with the question I dread to hear from professional athletes. "Hey, what's your fitness level?" For the record, my fitness
On the ridge between Wolverine and Elliot
coryJuly 31, 2011
Another great ridgeline in Chugach State Park, excellent views of the front range. Click here for a full screen version. Thanks to Ian and Josh for waiting for me. Not my best day.
On the ridge between Wolverine and Elliot
coryJuly 31, 2011
Another great ridgeline in Chugach State Park, excellent views of the front range. Click here for a full screen version. Thanks to Ian and Josh for waiting for me. Not my best day.
On the ridge between Wolverine and Elliot
coryJuly 31, 2011
Another great ridgeline in Chugach State Park, excellent views of the front range. Click here for a full screen version. Thanks to Ian and Josh for waiting for me. Not my best day.
On the ridge between Wolverine and Elliot
coryJuly 31, 2011
Another great ridgeline in Chugach State Park, excellent views of the front range. Click here for a full screen version. Thanks to Ian and Josh for waiting for me. Not my best day.
PARK CITY, UT (July 30) – Olympic ski jumper Peter Frenette (Saranac Lake, NY) took his third straight U.S. title Saturday at the U.S. Ski Jumping Championships in Park City. Jessica Jerome took the women’s crown for her eighth career U.S. title. Frenette, who swept the large and normal hill at U.S. Championships last year, beat the field by 11 points. Jerome beat out the women’s field by jumping almost ten meters further than anyone...
They Did It !
Sverre CaldwellJuly 31, 2011
Waiting nervously.Ah ha, here she comes.Mr. and Mrs Boobar.Congratulations Matt and Kate !
Back in Action
FasterSkierJuly 30, 2011
FasterSkier.com is back to close to 100% after a catastrophic server failure two weeks ago. While there is no way to confirm, we would like to think that there had to have been flames shooting out of poor Hedwig (the name of the now-defunct server). The FasterSkier blogs, which continued to show some erratic behavior over the last week, are fixed. In addition, during the work to get the site back online, we fixed several...
Sun Valley, ID: The 2nd annual National J2 Talent ID camp is set to take place August 1-8th in Sun Valley, ID. The top 22 J2 boys and top 22 J2 girls in the country (14-15 year olds) have qualified to attend this camp through selection from their best two races from the 2011 USSA Junior Olympics last March. This camp is the first national step up the U.S.S.A. development pipeline and is designated a...
Thursday, August 4th 1:00 to 3:00 PM White Clouds Golf Course. Sun Valley, ID White Clouds is just off Sun Valley (Trail Creek) Road across the street from Sun Valley Golf Clubhouse/Nordic Center, Sun Valley, ID The L100 Coaches Certification clinic is free to all USSA licensed coach. The clinics include dryland technique drills as well as drill progressions on classic and skate rollerskis. All ages and levels of coaches are welcome. The...
For Central Cross Country’s Jennie Bender, summer is for both building strength and taking time out for unstructured workouts. The winner of the classic race at last year’s Birkie tries to balance the exact focus of specific strength training with free form over distance. By losing track of time on a long run or canoe paddle, she gets inspired to challenge herself with a grueling intensity session. Her go-to intervals, usually done on classic skis,...
Bald Mountain Ridge Crust Skiing
FasterSkierJuly 29, 2011
Bald Mountain Ridge north of Wasilla, Alaska in the Talkeena Mountains can be tough to get to during crust skiing season. I had wanted to ski this area for a long time. I finally managed to get up on the ridge when the crust skiing was good.
How Often Do Ties Occur?
JoranJuly 29, 2011
With the modern chip timing tools used today ties should be fairly rare. They do still happen, though: This shows the number of ties per race of each type for WC, OWG, WSC and TDS races for men and women. As we might have expected, there are considerably fewer ties in mass start style races. [...] Related posts: