Lake Placid-based biathletes are excited about the extension of their rollerski loop at the Olympic Jumping Complex, which cost $500,000 and took about 14 weeks to complete this fall.
Parking Lot Alternative: Biathletes Welcome New Lake Placid Rollerski Loop (with Video)
November 29, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Zimmermann Takes Training to Peru with Inca Runners
October 30, 2012 By Alex Matthews
When Peru’s first Winter Olympian asks you to help him out, you say yes. At least that’s how Leif Zimmermann reacted last year. The two were acquaintances when Roberto Carcelén, a Peruvian cross-country skier who made the Vancouver Games at [...]
Nishikawa Edges Ellefson, Stephen Runs Solo to Win Spray Drag
October 24, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Thirty-six men in the Spray Drag running race didn’t end up chasing Devon Kershaw up Spray Lakes Road in Canmore, Alberta, on Saturday, but they had one heck of a battle from the start. According to American Sylvan Ellefson (Ski [...]
2012 Mount Moosilauke Time Trial: Ice, Fog and Wind
October 18, 2012 By Topher Sabot, Editor
It’s 3.6 miles long. It’s a hill climb, but one of the more benign trails in the region. The course record is 35:16—just under 10 minute miles. Think you can beat that? Well, you’d have to beat out every Dartmouth [...]
Hart Takes Advantage of Dartmouth D-Plan, Hangs with SMS
October 16, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Annie Hart has been hanging out with the Stratton Mountain School (SMS) T2 Team for a couple months now, but don’t get it wrong, she’s still a Dartmouth skier. A 20-year-old junior, Hart spent most of the summer studying and [...]
Goodbye Park City, Hello Frozen Thunder: Canadians Fine Tune Training
October 10, 2012 By Alex Matthews
It’s safe to say the Canadian cross-country teams enjoyed their stay in Park City, Utah. Between their tweets and Instagrams of bluebird days and college football games, it’s not hard to see why. While the Canadian women headed south on [...]
Randall Keeps Head Up, Hammer Down While Healing Stress Fracture
October 9, 2012 By Alex Matthews
When Kikkan Randall talks about being injured, her tone matches the description of any other day: the sun is shining; life is good. For more than two months, the 29-year-old U.S. Ski Team (USST) veteran has been healing a stress [...]
Enjoying Park City’s Fall Color, Kocher Sets Sights on More World Cup Top-Tens in 2013
October 8, 2012 By Chelsea Little
By all accounts, Canada’s Zina Kocher had a great season on biathlon’s World Cup in 2012. After a disappointing Olympics in Vancouver and then a dismal 2011, she joined the newly-formed Biathlon Alberta Training Center, skated through trials races, and [...]
Spray Drag Running Race Returns to Canmore
October 6, 2012 By Alex Matthews
2ND ANNUAL SPRAY DRAG RUNNING RACE October 20th, 2012 Men – 7.5km Women – 5km Come challenge World Champion Devon Kershaw along with the entire Alberta World Cup Academy in a running race up the Spray Lakes road! All proceeds [...]
USST Athletes Descend on Park City, Join Several Others
October 5, 2012 By Alex Matthews
The U.S. Nordic Ski Team’s final dryland camp of the season starts in earnest on Monday, but many of its athletes are already getting after it in Park City, Utah. Liz Stephen, Noah Hoffman and Tad Elliott generally live in [...]
After Roll-Run-Row, Craftsbury Skiers Primed for Season Ahead
October 5, 2012 By Alex Matthews
It downpoured across much of the Northeast on Wednesday. Those at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in northern Vermont hardly noticed. Owner Judy Geer called it “drizzle.” That morning, about 20 Craftsbury Green Racing Project (CGRP) athletes and coaches participated in [...]
Canadian Women ‘Far Fitter and Moving Faster’ at PC Camp
October 4, 2012 By Alex Matthews
After nearly two weeks of dryland training in Park City, Utah, the Canadian women’s cross-country team will pack up and head to St. George on Saturday. Saint what? One of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., St. George is [...]
U.S. Paralympics Nordic Brings Numbers to Lake Placid
October 1, 2012 By Alex Matthews
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — As they hammered out loops at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg biathlon center, several athletes on sit-ski mountain boards put their heads down. Everything they were doing — five or so laps lasting a few minutes each [...]
U.S. Ski Team Elite Camp: Time-Trial Video
September 27, 2012 By Alex Matthews
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Exactly a week ago, 40 elite skiers threw down some solid efforts at a U.S. Ski Team (USST) classic rollerski time trial, with the fastest men and women moving on to their respective quarterfinals, semifinals and [...]
USST Elite Camp: Wrapping up with Natural Intervals, Final Thoughts
September 22, 2012 By Alex Matthews
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Friday morning’s U.S. Ski Team workout at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg nordic trails wasn’t designed to be too hard. According to men’s coach Jason Cork, the idea was to run with poles and ski bound for [...]
First American to Win Ski Mountaineering Gold, Silitch Preps for Winter
In late May, weeks after Nina Silitch finished her last race of the season, loads of her ski-mountaineering equipment still occupied more than half the space in her bedroom. Her husband, Michael, couldn’t understand why, after six months on the [...]
Elliott Takes Over Castle Crown, Bests O’Brien
September 15, 2012 By Topher Sabot
FasterSkier would like to thank the Mirror Lake Inn for providing lodging and meals in Lake Placid this weekend. WILMINGTON, N.Y. — Over the years, the Climb to the Castle rollerski race up Whiteface Mountain has become a fixture of the [...]
Stephen Trounces Field in Climb to the Castle
September 15, 2012 By Audrey Mangan
FasterSkier would like to thank the Mirror Lake Inn for providing lodging and meals in Lake Placid this weekend. WILMINGTON, N.Y. — One thing was clear to the women’s field racing the Climb to the Castle on Saturday morning: Liz Stephen (U.S. [...]
Bounding Up Whiteface: Video from USST Elite Camp (Updated with Quotes)
September 13, 2012 By Alex Matthews
WILMINGTON, N.Y. — The view from partially up Whiteface Mountain on Wednesday morning was about as picturesque as they get. From the trail, one could see that the leaves had started to turn shades of red and yellow — just [...]
Injured APU/USST Teammates Randall and Bjornsen Keep Kicking
September 10, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Last week in Anchorage, a freak windstorm rolled through that would have devastated most mainland Americans. Gusts estimated at 130 miles per hour spewed trees across Alaska’s largest city, leaving at least a thousand residents without power through Saturday – [...]
