Introducing FasterSkier’s renewed training series: Wednesday Workout. This week, two-time NCAA Champion Miles Havlick takes us through one of his regular summer sessions, an extended L3 running interval.
4 Workouts to Start the New Training Year
It’s May 1. Do you know where your heart rate monitor is? To help motivate you to get out and start working hard again, four skiers share how they’re mentally and physically gearing up for the new season.
What’s in a Taper? Athletes Discuss Before Season Finale
Only days remain in the 2013 World Cup and there’s less than a month to go before SuperTour Finals and Canadian Nationals wrap up the competitive season for North Americans. For this edition in our workout series we asked Alex Harvey, Sadie Bjornsen and Lenny Valjas how they orchestrate an end-of-year taper and how their peaking plan for World Championships affected the racing that followed and is still to come.
This Month In Journals: All About Intervals
We look at two recent studies about interval training, each coming to a different conclusion about what’s best – and then ask the question, how does this apply to real-life training? Pros and cons of academic research into endurance training, considered.
The College Workout: Stair Repeats with Denver University
January 31, 2013 By Audrey Mangan
For this edition of the college workout, we’re running stairs with the University of Denver. Get ready for your legs to shake.
Post-Holiday College Workout: Endpoints
January 12, 2013
Middlebury College head coach Andrew Gardner breaks down a basic-but-important workout: no-poles skiing with a focus on endpoints.
This Month in Journals: Youth Olympic Games in Focus; Norwegian Students Get Slower
Plus, two different studies look at how different types of muscle used in various athletic activities might inform training. In the first, static stretching is worse for cycling than running; in the second, think about small-muscle strength exercises.
The College Workout: Race-Pace Intervals with Colorado University
November 28, 2012 By Audrey Mangan
If you live and train at high altitude, one of your biggest concerns probably centers on how to log sufficient intensity work without becoming overly tired. Colorado University Head Coach Bruce Cranmer talks about how to make the best of training at elevation.
The College Workout: Negative Splits with UVM
There are few things in skiing more important than knowing physical limits of one’s own body. Just ask Patrick Weaver, head coach of the 2012 NCAA Champions at the University of Vermont. “More often than not, we find when we [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
A National Team’s Question: How to Get to the Next Camp? Its Answer: Bike!
July 18, 2012 By Chelsea Little
Like a lot of national teams, the U.S. biathlon squad has training camps at different facilities around the country throughout the year. And after a stint at the Camp Ethan Allen Training Site in Jericho, Vermont, this week, they needed [...]
Home in Southern Vermont, Newell Hardly Relaxing
July 10, 2012 By Alex Matthews
SHAFTSBURY, Vt. – Andy Newell had been home in southern Vermont for just about a week – and he hadn’t had a ton of free time between pre-dawn photo shoots with Karhu and Craft two hours away in Hanover, N.H., [...]
From East to West, REG Camps a Success
July 6, 2012 By Alex Matthews
The Western Regional Elite Group (REG) Camp kicked off in earnest at 6 a.m. Monday, June 25, with a trail-run time trial up Agony Hill. On the training schedule, instructions read: “Bring your ‘A’ game.” Dozens of teenage athletes tackled the [...]
Norwegian NoCo Team Likes Taste of Park City
July 3, 2012 By Alex Matthews
In their first collective visit to Park City, Utah, several members of the Norwegian nordic combined team couldn’t get over the place. There was never a cloud in the sky, and even unseasonably cold days weren’t that bad. People were [...]
U.S., Canadian National Teams Mix It Up with Club Skiers in Relays (Photo Gallery)
May 23, 2012 By Chelsea Little
BEND, Ore. – It may have been spring at Mount Bachelor this weekend, but by the time Wednesday rolled around, it was more like winter. Snow had fallen overnight and stuck to the mountain’s flanks, and flurries continued to drift [...]
U.S. Biathletes Leave Their Rifles At Home and Get Ski-Specific in Bend – With Photo Gallery
May 22, 2012 By Chelsea Little
BEND, Oregon – Even though the U.S. biathlon national team did not compete in the Pole Pedal Paddle on Saturday morning like their skiing counterparts, the athletes still didn’t get to sleep in for their weekend. After all, this is [...]
