Martin Koukal, the 50-kilometer World Champion from Val di Fiemme in 2003 has climbed the Cho Oyo Mountain in the Himalayas. http://www.radekjaros.cz/fotogalerie/
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FasterSkierMay 18, 2004
The winners of the May 15th FasterSkier and TorbjornSport's drawing for PRO-SKI rollerskis and $100 gift certificates were this time from Canada, Alaska and Maine $100 Gift Certificates: Andy Shepard, Yarmouth, Maine Tanja Britton, Anchorage, Alaska Rollerskis (classic or skate): Yves Bourget, Timmins, Ontario, Canada To enter next 7 months' drawings sign up for our email update list. Winners will be drawn from among TorbjornSport’s and FasterSkier’s free e-mail update subscribers and customers. Enter your...
There is no doubt what’s on Norwegian World cup skier Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen’s mind when she now starts the preparations toward next season; a World Championship gold. Before last season Hilde had decided that it was going to be her last as a World cup skier, retirement was next. But a number of very good results last winter made her change her mind. Now she wants to win a World Championship gold to top off...
Fasterskier.com was founded right before the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. We saw a need for a web site with ambitions to create a broader interest for cross country skiing. We wanted to cover not only training articles, but also cover the people in the races and behind the scene, the personalities and psychology in racers of all ages, the events, the equipment, the preparations, the inspiration, the results, the success and failure and...
Members of the Norwegian women’s team will not have skis on their feet for a six month period in their preparation for the upcoming season. Women’s coach Svein Tore Samdal is not emphasizing summer skiing for his skiers. The women’s team trained on-snow in June with the men’s team in Tignes, France last summer. That was the only snow camp before the traditional October fall camp in Val Senales, Italy. There are no snow camps...
Krister Skjeldal is getting married on May 22. His wedding guests asked for a time-trial in the morning of the wedding day. We have to add that a large number of the guests are not the average hobby skiers or joggers, but include dozens of international elite racers from the past 15 years. One champion after another will be on the starting line: Vegard Ulvang, Bjorn Daehlie, Pal Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Erling Jevne, Sture Sivertsen, Odd...
The focus on more altitude training toward the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy started already last season for the Norwegian national teams. They are making additional adjustments this year. The 2006 Olympics is an “altitude event†and correct altitude training will be of utmost importance for the skiers results. Norway has relatively young skiers on their team and the reason for the high number of skiers sent to altitude camps last season was to (among...
Mt Rainier has been the training ground for the first American ascents of Everest and K2. Skiing Mt Rainier usually brings to mind heavy alpine touring or telemark gear. On April 25th having dispaired at low quality of the snow at lower elevations, two of us Seattle skiers have gone to explore how far 4 cm wide racing boards would take us. The answer: to about 7000 ft, or 2000 feet up from Paradise Inn....
The Joys Of Hotboxing
FasterSkierMay 15, 2004
Not being a carpenter and never having built anything in my life, I took it as a daunting, but doable challenge to build my own hotbox. After consulting with stonegrind/wax guru Nat Brown I had a fairly good idea of how to do it in a simple but effective way. I also consulted with my friend and skier Jim Didomenico who has a very elaborate design which uses a hot water heater. I quickly dismissed...
Swedish ski star Per Elofsson is back in training, but his coach Per Rawald says that he is facing the toughest fight of his life. Elofsson is normally resting for three weeks in the spring, but his break from early this winter until spring was four months. This was following the conclusion that he was over trained.