There are workouts where you finish battered and beaten, muscles packed with lactate. And then, there are days when you just go out and ride your bike. Tad Elliott does 70 percent of his training on two wheels, but there’s one workout that he especially relishes: a 68-mile loop near his home town of Durango, Colorado, that he rides with his friend Troy Wells. Unlike some of the more painful sessions one might do on...
A native of Germany, Juergen Uhl raced for the University of Vermont for four years, capping a dominating collegiate career with an NCAA Championship in 2009. Uhl is continuing his studies in Vermont and will be racing this season as a member of the new XCVT team. Look for an article soon on this new addition to the elite racing scene. Technique, pacing, endurance, and mental toughness – all are worked and strengthened in Juergen...
Drew Goldsack may be a recent addition to the Alberta World Cup Academy but he’s not stranger to hard training. After 8 years on the Canadian National Team, Goldsack joined the Alberta World Cup Academy, a recently instated Canadian Training Centre and he’s enjoying every minute of it. Being on the AWCA has reunited him with former National Ski Team coach Mike Cavaliere and former teammate Chris Jeffries. “Working with The Alberta World Cup Academy...
The harder the race, the greater the chance you’ll see Ivan Babikov at the top of the result sheet. So it’s no surprise that he uses a brutally difficult training session to prepare himself for the winter. In an interview from his home in Canmore, Babikov said that this workout – a variation on bounding intervals – was a holdover from his younger days training in Russia. In Canada, Babikov said, most athletes do their...
What do you do when you can’t keep up with Andy Newell? For most of us, the answer is that we continue on with our normal lives, content to compete for a spot in the elite wave at the American Birkebeiner rather than the top spot on a World Cup podium. But Steinbock Racing’s Chris Cook was not so easily deterred. Instead of giving up, he turned to a sprint workout: sets of all-out 30-second...
Our Pro Workout series continues, this week shifting from rollerskis to running shoes for ski bounding intervals with XC Oregon’s Kristina Strandberg. A native of Sweden, Strandberg is a consistent force on the U.S. racing circuit. A two-time SuperTour overall champion and repeat winner of the FasterSkier Continental Skier of the Year award, Strandberg earned a spot on the World Cup circuit for the start of last season. She competed in seven World Cup events,...
Two weeks ago for the first installment of our “Pro Workout” series, we featured a high speed session with Olympic sprinter Simi Hamilton. This time around we literally shift gears, talking with Alaska Pacific University’s (APU) two-time Olympian and distance stalwart James Southam. With three trips to World Championships in addition to his Olympic appearances, Southam is entering the final year of a strong career that also includes multiple National Championship titles. For the last...
