New Mexico Coach Frederik Landstedt

If you weren't a ski coach, what would you rather be doing?
Traveling, Hiking, Fishing, relaxing, but if you mean I had to make a living,
I can't see a better way of doing it.

What are the five main philosophies you coach by?
If you are happy where you are, you will be happy anywhere.
If you want to succeed, it is all up to you. It does not matter where you live
or what the conditions are.
To be a good ahtlete you need to plan your life, think of what you are doing,
set your priorities, work on your weakness, but when you race, it is better
not to think too much.
Life is all about priorities. No excuses.
When the going get tough, the tough get going

What do you spend most time with when you are on the road at races or training
camps?
On the road – Easy one, driving the van
After we get there – waxing, testing, planing the race days or training, video
analysis, talking to athletes

What were your best or most memorable races (for your athletes) – last season
or earlier?
Best races – 2003 NCAA's first day. Men – First & sixth Women – 5th,6th,
15th
WSC meet – Men 1st,6th, 8th Women – 2,3,4 Both days.
Us Nationals – 15 km Women 3rd and 4th
Earlier – 2000 NCAA's Kristina Strandberg took the lead in the last
downhill to the finish, at Soldier Hollow, to win the 15 km mass start event.

How do you deal with bad races?
Analyze what went wrong and try to find things that we can do different or bettter. 
Sometimes there is nothing you can do and the best is to forget about it and
move on.  Try to talk to the athletes and make them learn from the event
and get something possitive from it.

What are your coaching goals for the upcoming season?
To help my athletes improve.  Work hard with techinque and each athletes
individual weakness.  My goal as a coach is to help my athletes perform
as good as they possibly can at the right time, and to reach their long term
goals, so that they are excited to continue to improve.  Have lots of fun.

How do you feel about the changes in the international race formats over
the past few years (sprint racing, mass starts, skiathalon/duathalon)?
I am old fashiened and hate to see most of the individual start races disappear. 
I also realize that skiing is changing and we have to change with it. 
Sprinting is fun and brings more athletes and money  to the sport. The
duathlon is better now when they made it a longer event.

What changes will you be making to your athletes’ training plan for
this year?
Even more upper body core strength.  Concentrate on more speed. Improve
technique. Try to make them mentally tougher and not to let insignificant details
or events affect their preparations.

Do you have a favorite interval or hard workout?
Sand hills – Running/bounding with poles 30 min Natural Interval session. 

Rollerskiing up-hill Interval session staggered 2+2+3+3+4+4+5+4+3 Min Intervals. 

Double poling speed intervals 30sec, 1 min, 2 min total of 10-15 Intervals.

Running Frankies (after Frank Shorter's favorite work-out) 12*400 meter with
200 meter jog in between each interval.