Today was a beautiful day for acombi OD and while the REG campers skated and ran around craftsbury, we classic skied and then ran/hiked over Stratton.everyone skied for 1-1.5 hrs, then changed to running shoes and ran/hiked for another 1-1.5 hrs.Pip.Fl...
We had another beautiful day of training this morning in Richmond. The group rollerskied along Cochran Road, working on specific strength and double-pole. After an hour of rolling, the athletes changed into their sneakers to do some trail running along...
This morning we had a huge group out on the roads for double pole intervals at the Eastern REG. Our Elite Team and the Craftsbury Green Team set the pace and the big group of REG athletes jumped in and got to push themselves by following some mor...
This week forty of New England’s top junior skiers came to Craftsbury for a training camp so we’ve had lots of company on the trails and roads during our training sessions. The first few days were cold and wet so we were all very excited ...
Mati Alaver is a legend in Estonia. Alaver, 58, is credited with building his country’s cross-country ski program from scratch following Estonia’s independence in 1991. Over the last two decades, its athletes have won more than 15 major medals at World Championships and Olympic Games—not bad for a country with a population of 1.3 million. Alaver is known not just as a knowledgeable and successful coach, but also as a pitchman who found the sponsor...
The newest edition of the FIS Homologation Manual was published this month and two changes are significant for North American venues. Major A-climbs now require five fewer meters of elevation gain, and courses that reach above 1800 m have been clarified as eligible for certification (and always have been) at the Continental Cup level and below. According to John Aalberg, a FIS homologation coordinator for North America, the elevation clarification and A-climb reduction were...
Click here for more photos from this afternoon's skate ski. Women and J2s went together and guys headed to the other side of town to split up the group on the roads. Above, SMS skiers Koby & Jack hop in behind the USST's Ida Sargent on ...
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen’s got a lot on her plate. Finland’s celebrated cross-country skier is currently on Eagle Glacier with the North American Women’s Training Alliance, a group of about 20 women from the U.S. and Canadian national teams. A multiple world champion with three Olympic medals, Saarinen, 33, has been in Alaska for more than two weeks, staying with U.S. Ski Team member and World Cup sprint champion Kikkan Randall during the first part of camp...
With 14 athletes and 2 coaches at Craftsbury for the REG, our group is pretty small this week. Today we worked on double pole technique and specific strength. We are working on using the arm swing to pull the body up and forward into a dynamic sta...
A quick REG update: we did a bounding workout this morning at Craftsbury in the field near the Green Team house. We're about to hit up lunch and then we've got a recovery skate ski for all groups this afternoon with the SMS Elite Team and t...
Earlier this month, Philip Furrer wasn’t sure what his summer held. Sure, the Swiss cross-country ski racer knew he’d be training and spending three weeks with military recruits for Switzerland’s army requirement. At least he was a sports instructor for the mandatory period. Otherwise, work was winding down. Throughout spring, the 28-year-old from Andermatt, Switzerland, taught primary students in grades 1-6. When he wasn’t racing or traveling across the globe, Furrer, who started in four...
By request, we’re looking at how the length of World Cup sprints has changed over time. Specifically, since the length in time of the effort is really more meaningful than the length of the course in terms of distance, that’s what we’ll consider. So the following graph shows the average of the top five qualification [...] Related posts:
Hello from Craftsbury! If you have a strong desire to remember what mid-November feels like, come up to northern Vermont - it's been a little chilly here lately. : ) The weather hasn't slowed this group down though and REG has been go...
Andy, Bill and Gus discuss the workout.Bill and Gus with Erika, Sophie, Eric and Andy.This was the same workout that we did yesterday with a bunch of kids. The goal is to get a baseline for the 10 km skiing L3. We got times, average heart rates and Lac...
Training for next week (July 2 - July 8):Monday 8:30 - 10:30am at the Range. Skate rollerski plus intro to biathlon!Wednesday - Next Wednesday is the 4th of July and we will not have organized training. Coach Erin Mallory will be at a 5km race in Colc...
Summer Vid of the DP testMore vids here: SMS XC Vimeo Channel
Note: This is the sixth preview in a quick-and-dirty series on U.S. elite teams. We asked coaches to send their 2012/2013 rosters and tell us what’s new for the coming season. We will be publishing additional reports over the next few weeks. Teams are presented in no particular order. Team: Far West Farm Team Coaches: Ben Grasseschi (head coach), August Teague, Martin Benes Roster: Phillip Violett, Wyatt Fereday Who’s new: No one – yet. However,...
This morning we did a 10 km continuous L3 workout. The course started with a 6 km uphill and then rolled for the last 4 km. Our goal is to build a strong aerobic platform and this is a good workout to improve aerobic fitness. We will do the same workou...
After a massive wave of spring skiers left Bend, Ore., last month, the groomers at Mt. Bachelor hardly packed it in. The U.S. and Canadian national teams and several elite squads were gone, but nearly the same amount of skiers – 150 – were expected to flock to the snow-covered trails in June. The Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center and its club, the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation (MBSEF), planned accordingly. On June 16, the MBSEF...
Since I’m starting to accumulate a reasonable collection of heat times from World Cup sprint races, I thought it might be interesting to compare general trends between the few seasons I have data on. The biggest trends that you can typically see are the differences in tactics between the men and women. Generally what I’ve [...] Related posts: