It’s a bittersweet feeling to start saying goodbye to spring and hello to summer, and the start of training. I’ve spent these past few weeks relaxing and enjoying the things around me. Burke had a “May Camp” for the alpiners, ...
I imagine by this time of year most athletes are back to full time training or are working their way up to full time training. Personally I chose to keep skiing and training a bit after the season because the ...
Yesterday, we updated you on what’s been going on in the world of women’s biathlon in the last six weeks. Here’s the story on the men’s World Cup field.
- Norway announced its national teams and there aren’t many surprises. Notably, ...
Between City Creek and the City, lies a ridge that is home to the Wasatch Steeple Chase. The week started in the 90s so when Friday’s clouds and the temps in the 50s rolled in, the time seemed right to ...
If you are going to be a Nordic skier you have to live by these words. Snow is fleeting in most of the world, even the mighty Wasatch. As we watch it dissipate we realign our training accordingly to find ...
The last week, I’ve been doing a lot of running around – errands, and literally running in circles for training. Running in the park. Running my sister to school. Running the face painting station for Girls On The Run. Running ...
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) released its 2013 awards list on Friday, which named Erik Flora, the head coach at Alaska Pacific University (APU), Coach of the Year among all sports — a first for cross-country.
Flora, 40, was ...
A couple days ago I did my third (or is it fourth?) track workout of the season. I ran three 400s, three 800s, and three more 400s. Times were almost exactly what I was hoping for: 69, 68, 70, 2:24, ...
– How much is Petter Northug worth to a private investor? According to Coop, a European supermarket chain, 15 million a year. Shortly after the 27-year-old Norwegian world champion announced his departure from the national team on Wednesday, VG reporters ...
I started training again on May 1st. I have started conservatively with 20 non-specific hours the first week. If you follow me on twitter you would have seen a few of the activities that I have been doing. ...
Concussions can occur at any time and any place. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that is caused by a blow to the head or body, fall, or another injury that jars or shakes the brain inside the skull. ...
Over the last month, I have been trying to do as much backcountry and alpine skiing as reasonably possible. Being an Alaskan elite ski racer can be a sort of mental torture during the racing season; you’re gone nearly all ...
Well its the first week of the training year and that means it’s back to being a skier for me. Over the past few weeks I’ve been taking a break from training but have definitely not been taking it easy. ...
It’s April 25th and the last bit of snow has melted off the trails. Skiing has been finished for almost three weeks and looking back the season was pretty good.
Grooming began on December 27, a bit later than we ...
I returned Tromso, Norway for the final ISMF ski mountaineering World Cup sprint with one objective in mind: to give it my best and feel good about my race. I had some time before the race to enjoy the tranquility ...
A longtime staple and accomplished veteran on the U.S. Nordic Combined Team, Johnny Spillane announced Thursday that he was retiring from the sport. In a letter to Steamboat Today, Spillane, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., cited family as his main reason ...
CXC Team was officially established in 2007 as a way to provide support to the athletes who showed potential and drive to progress towards athletic excellence at the National and International level of competition.
Since that time, the CXC Team athletes ...
Members of the University of Vermont (UVM) women’s nordic ski team got more than they bargained for while backcountry skiing on Dix Mountain near Keene Valley, N.Y., on Saturday, helping to evacuate a snowshoer who injured her ankle.
According to the ...
How many of you readers have, at any point, ever clicked your way to the FasterSkier home page, perused my stories about cross-country skiing, and thought, “man, I wish that I could read that kind of aggressive reporting and original ...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned Estonian Olympic and World Champion Andrus Veerpalu’s three-year doping ban for the use of human growth hormone.
In a release, CAS said that there were “many factors” that “tend to indicate that Andrus ...
