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Kikkan RandallJuly 14, 2004
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Focus On Rollerskiing And Efficient Training Pace At FasterSkier’s Training Camp
FasterSkierJuly 14, 2004
Participants that hadn’t followed Fasterskier.com’s recent discussion of modern intensity training got surprised at the June 10-13 Fasterskier.com’s training camp in Park City, Utah. The camp schedule for last week’s training camp started with a high intensity rollerski intervals including lactate testing and video filming on Thursday morning at 9.00 AM. We didn’t call the June FasterSkier.com an intense rollerski camp, but we could have. Five rollerski workouts, including interval, distance, technique (both classical and...
School Comes First For Elden
FasterSkierJuly 14, 2004
Former World Nordic Combined Champion Trond Einar Elden of Norway lost his sprint national team spot after last season. He might continue to race, but school has now first priority.
FasterSkier.com’s new “The Club†subscription service was introduced last week and has created lots of interest prior to the first issue arriving in May. We have had skiers from six nations sign up already. Many of the subscribers have identified themselves as coaches, other as racers and many consider themselves to be both.  We have a healthy mix of well-known names and new-to-us names among the subscribers so far. The first issue is coming out...
Fasterskier’s new subscription service just released the second issue of The Club newsletter. The June issue covered details of the why’s and how’s of improving an athlete’s aerobic capacity (or max VO2). Some of the newest research is summarized, and several references to additional scientific material are given. The June issue also covers details of how Sprint training is done in several of the best Cross-Country skiing nations, as well as gives detailed and practical...
Elite skiers and ambitious juniors have rollerskied for more than one month already in their preparations for the upcoming season, while many masters are just getting going. Rollerskiing is the most specific and the best way of preparing for the upcoming season’s races. It’s also a great and fun way of adding variety to you endurance training and the only way of improving your technique in the summer and fall. So while we suggest rollerskiing,...
Fasterskier.com’s premiere issue of the new subscription service, “The Club†covering in-dept training and racing articles was emailed to subscribers on May 20. Three articles included a study on modern double pole technique, as well as training methods used by the World’s best runners, the Moroccans and the Kenyans. The “Club†is meant to be a place where coaches, serious racers and parents will receive articles and material that can update or stimulate their coaching...
June Ski Race In Wisconsin
FasterSkierJuly 13, 2004
On Tuesday, June 8th Madison Nordic Ski Club and Tyrol Basin Ski Area will hold a x-c ski race. www.tyrolbasin.com) and well be spread on the area around 600 feet long and 60 feet wide. The race is promising to be very challenging with climbs, sharp turns, fast down hills, professionally groomed snow, sun and T-shirts. Race will start at 7.00pm and will have two person start format in different age groups. Fastest will advance...
Stay updated, inspired, motivated and get new training ideas with the FasterSkier.com Club. The staff at Fasterskier.com frequently comes across very good articles and material that we think special groups of our readership would be interested in. However, with our current resources, it would be too labor-intensive to write these in-depth articles for general posting on the web site, where they would not be of interest to the casual observer. We also find ourselves with...
The Norwegian 2003-04 ski season is ready for the archives. The season’s final event – Skarverennet, the year’s biggest race as far as participation, is coming up. This is the ski community’s answer to a cross between the annual Las Vegas Grateful Dead and Rockabilly gathering. This skate race will again attract the usual 10-15,000 participants. The only real (high) value we can hope to achieve from this race might (at the very best) be...
First Sprint Titlist Retires
FasterSkierJuly 12, 2004
The first official FIS sprint World Cup was held in the 1999/2000 season. Morten Brors (Norway) took home the overall trophy and title. He is now retiring.
Each nation can only enter one team at next years two person sprint relay at the Worlds in Oberstdorf, Germany. The race will this time be held in the freestyle (skating) technique.  The situation in Norway is that not only are all the sprinters drooling to make one of the two legs, but some members of the regular team are also feeling that they have a chance at qualifying for what’s called “the hardest team...
Gear West Ski & Run Presents a US Ski Team technique clinic fundraiser for Team Today. Saturday & Sunday, September 11-12 2004 at French Regional Park, Plymouth Minnesota. All proceeds from this event directly support Team Today and the athletes of the US Cross-country ski team and their goal of becoming the best in the world. Team Today is a nonprofit organization started and run by the athletes of the US Cross-country Ski Team. Team...
My good friend David Belz, a top 200 Birkie skier from Switzerland likes to refer to things as “alte schule†which in Swiss-German means “old schoolâ€. Nothing could be more “old school†than riding a bike with only one speed. Think back to the carefree days of your youth. Screaming down the street as an 8 year old on your Schwinn Sting Ray; never in oxygen debt, pedaling as hard and as fast as you...
A BRIEF REPORT ON THE CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING REGIONAL ELITE CAMP AT CRESTHILL RESORT, HAYWARD, WI JULY 3-10, 2004  FIRST TWO DAYS July 5- FROM THE COACHES:Central Cross Country Skiing is hosting the Regional Elite Group training camp for the top junior and senior athletes in the Central Region (athletes from MN, WI, MI). This is a very unique opportunity for athletes to train together for the whole week without any costs to the athletes or coaches. Financial...
Swedish Skidsport.com reports that ski clubs in the northern town of Gallivare have teamed up with the county in order to guarantee early cross country skiing. Unpredictable snow, race and training camp cancellation have frequently hurt the local economy, the skier’s preparations and the sport. This new three-year long project involves saving enough of last season’s snow to offer October skiing with a minimum of five kilometer of tracks. The snow will in part be...
Two Person Double Marathon Relay Was Nightmare For Swedish Skiers Swedish Skidsport.com reported from Sweden’s national team skiers Anders Sodergren and Mathias Frederiksson nightmare experience in the recent two person marathon in Skien, Norway: – It’s the toughest thing I have ever done, said Anders Sodergren Sodergren and Fredriksson were the only Swedes in the competition. They did very well and placed second only two minutes behind the winners after more than seven hours of...