The skiing here at the Snow Farm in New Zealand is good but not as good as it has been in years past. The snow is thin and spring like. It is freezing and hardening at night, and softening as … Continue reading →
We celebrated the start of school with a hike up Mad River this week. It has been an unbelievable stretch of weather for training in the Valley and we have capitalized with some fun workouts all over the map. The feeling of Fall is starting to creep in...
My teammate Kris Freeman and I made it to the Snow Farm, not far from Wanaka, New Zealand without any trouble. After my long ride yesterday (or two days ago, depending on how you count,) I slept for nine hours uninterrupted on … Continue reading →
Another gorgeous day in Vermont! This afternoon we headed out for a double pole distance workout near the town of Stratton. Matt took the older boys on a longer point to point ski, Sverre worked with the older girls, and Liz had the J2 crew...
Thousands of miles from the U.S. mainland on the northern island of Hawaii, Sylvan Ellefson tweeted photos from his honeymoon in Kauai. He University of New Hampshire skier – is from. Then they went to Boulder, where Sarah lives while studying physical therapy, to watch the USA Pro Am Cycling Challenge last weekend. “I’m jazzed to be moving around again,” Ellefson said. “The wedding week was pretty crazy and then the honeymoon was nice and...
White Pine Touring is located in Park City, Utah. WPT Nordic Center has enjoyed strong retail and pass-holder growth over the last few years. There is 22k of private groomed classic/skate trails, with a solid retail/rental/service/ski school presence right on the track. We are seeking a manager who has extensive experience in Nordic hard goods product knowledge, familiarity with Nordic instruction and track grooming. Strong organization skills with an outgoing dynamic personality. Able to oversee...
Kris Freeman and Kikkan Randall have been basically the top US skiers for quite some time now. (I’m sort of brushing Andrew Newell under the rug here, mostly just due to time contraints. I’ll do a follow up on him next week.) Freeman has been more or less unquestionably the best US male distance skier [...] Related posts:Victims & Nemeses: Kris Freeman Is Qualifying In The Top Ten A Good Sign For Kikkan? Top 10 Qualification vs. Making The Final
The Chiemgau Arena, a shooting range with paved rollerski loops just outside of Ruhpolding, Germany, is a venue unlike almost anything in North America, with the exception perhaps of a few former Olympic sites. And even if Soldier Hollow has nice rollerskiing, too, Ruhpolding has a bit more: other teams, for one, but also spectators who show up even in the summer just to watch some of the world’s top biathletes train. Here are a...
My top 5 favorite trail runs of all time are: Cutthroat Pass, North Cascades, WA Chilkoot Trail, Skagway, AK Cascade/Paintbrush Canyon, Grand Teton NP, WY Grasshopper Pass, Pacific Crest Trail, WA Porcupine Rim Trail, Moab, UT In 1999 MVSTA&n...
On Monday the SMST2 crew went up to Pineland Farms, Maine for a short 4 day training camp with the Maine Winter Sports Center. The camp has an intensity/speed focus so the athletes have had plenty of opportunities to push themselves. Below ...
Two years ago, my coach John Callahan and I came up with a strategy to help me sleep while travelling: do long over-distance sessions (over-distance sessions, called ODs, are any session longer than the length of my longest race, about … Continue reading →
What a BEAUTIFUL day in Vermont! Not a cloud in the sky, crisp cool morning, warming up gradually during the day - perfect weather! We took advantage of it and got outside twice today: once in the morning for our 11am to noon training block...
Members of the U.S. Ski Team’s National Training Group (NTG) spent last week in Park City, Utah, for a training camp centered on group training and exposure to the resources at the Center of Excellence. Athletes joined interval sessions with the national team on the rollerski track at Soldier Hollow and underwent a series of physiological tests for assessment and feedback on their development. The camp was a new addition over last year’s schedule; the...
This evening I went to Bonnie Raitt at Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City with my sister and Toni and Greg Adams. Red Butte is a beautiful place to see a concert. Bonnie Raitt was fantastic. I know her … Continue reading →
This afternoon we had a nice big crew out for our uphill run test. After a solid warmup for everyone, we got things rolling at the bottom of County Road and everyone raced 2 miles up around County Road, onto Mountain Road, past the Sunbowl and al...
Here we are again, on target for the one blog/month frequency which I've been hitting pretty consistently since March. My apologies; I'm sure there are some interesting things happening in the interim but without adequate photos it just doesn't seem ju...
This past weekend we had our last training of the summer session, followed on Sunday by the Catamount Trail fundraiser "Race to the Top of Vermont" which is either a running or mountain bike race up the Mansfield Toll Road (Stowe). There were a ton of ...
Note: This story accompanies came to life under SMS Nordic Program Director Sverre Caldwell. Sophie’s father, Sverre dreamed up the team years ago, but seriously revisited the idea in a conversation with Kaeding last summer. Earlier this year, the two laid the framework to make it happen. Several months later in June, four SMS skiers and Sinnott strapped on their rollerski gear for a three- to four-hour skate in upstate New York. It was the...
