This week, World Cup cross-country skiers across North America are checking their lists, checking them twice, loading up on supplies and then cutting their luggage in half to prepare for a long season over in Europe. The Canadian national team [...]
Canadians Choose Sweden for Skiing, Coffee; Australian Picks Canmore
October 31, 2012 By Alex Matthews
U.S. NoCo Takes Captain America to Europe; Jarrett Speaks in Tokyo
October 25, 2012 By Alex Matthews
The U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team strives for a lot of things – medals, depth, continued improvement – but flying under the radar isn’t one of them. Anyone who followed the team and one if its racers, Taylor Fletcher, for [...]
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 [...]
Canada’s Frozen Thunder Offers Goods to All
October 20, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Before the sun rises in Canmore, Alberta, those near the ski trails can probably hear the sounds of striding and skating along hard-packed snow this time of year. That’s likely accompanied by voices, chit-chatting as skiers compete 1.8-kilometer loops around [...]
Testing, One Two Three
October 18, 2012 By Audrey Mangan
The U.S. Ski Team’s cross-country athletes finished their final round of pre-season testing last week in Park City, Utah. Athlete blogs currently abound with documentation of skiers pushing themselves to the point of falling off the treadmill in order to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
US Biathletes at Different Points, Abilities, Discuss Goals
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — As seven US Biathlon Team members repeated loops around the stadium during trail-running intervals at Mt. Van Hoevenberg on Friday, each had their own things going on, their own focus. A-Team athlete Susan Dunklee, a Craftsbury Green Racing [...]
US Biathlon Trail-Running Intervals in Lake Placid (Video)
September 25, 2012 By Alex Matthews
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — While the U.S. Nordic Ski Team trained on the mountainous, cross-country side of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg ski center on Friday, seven U.S. Biathlon skiers and their coaches went to work on the opposite side of [...]
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 [...]
Caldwell, Newell Stay Ahead in USST Camp Rollerski Sprints (Updated)
September 20, 2012 By Alex Matthews
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Flinging around a sharp corner about a ski length behind one another, Sophie Caldwell (Stratton Mountain School T2 Team), Ida Sargent (Craftsbury Green Racing Project), Caitlin Patterson (CGRP) and Jessie Diggins (SMS) each lowered into a [...]
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 [...]
Canadian Men Leave NZ ‘Feeling Good,’ Cracking Jokes
September 7, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Just over two weeks ago, the Canadian men’s cross-country ski team made the long journey to New Zealand in search of some low-altitude, on-snow volume training. According to head coach Justin Wadsworth, they planned to work on intensity and climbing [...]
USST Puts National Training Group Through the Paces
August 29, 2012 By Audrey Mangan
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 [...]
Summer Training with Stratton’s T2 Team (Videos)
August 24, 2012 By Alex Matthews
Since its inception earlier this year, the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team has grown to a six-skier strong elite club based in the resort town of Stratton, Vt. Stratton Mountain School (SMS) graduates Andy Newell and Skyler Davis were originally part [...]
