Kelly Milligan of Team TorbjornSport doubled up and raced both the Continental Cup and the Wasatch citizen race at Soldier Hollow on December 12. The 5-kilometer classic Continental cup race started at 9 am and Kelly placed 19th, 1.48 minutes behind the winner Beckie Scott. A few hours later she was on the starting line again, this time for the 10-kilometer citizen classic race where she posted the fastest women’s time by several minutes. Four...
James Southam (26) captured first place in the 10-kilometer Continental Cup classic race at Soldier Hollow on December 11. The skiing in Utah was great and he didn’t go home for a Christmas break, but remained in order to prepare for the upcoming US Nationals at the same site. Doing well in the classic race at Nationals is his main goal in making the Worlds-team his dream.
University of Utah skier Barbro Hatlevik (22) from Vagstranda near Andalsnes, Norway is doing daily workouts this Christmas at the Olympic trails at Soldier Hollow, Utah in her preparations for the upcoming college ski season and the US National Championship that starts January 3. Vagstranda? I’m sorry, I’m from Norway, but where in Norway is THAT? Right next to Andalsnes! OK, well tell us about being a Norwegian college skier at the University of Utah?...
Kristin Stœrmer Steira took last weekend the step all the way up to a place among the Worlds elite skiers. She reached the podium and was second in a 15-kilometer skate World Cup race. That confirmed progress and future potential and made her very happy.
Dahl is not giving up on Worlds: The season has so far not been as last year’s Norwegian sprint champion, John Kristian Dahl had hoped. He still has a small hope of making the Worlds team. – Worlds have been the carrot this season and it would be fun to make that team. But half the train with that destination has left after my 16. place in Asiago, where I didn’t race well at all....
Note: This article represents the viewpoints of the importer/distributor of one particular glide wax. At the TorbjornSport ( Most of the claims regarding results are true and accurate for the races they talk about but might not necessarily give an accurate picture of what was the fastest wax that day or what was possibly equally as fast as the “blistering fast and world’s fastest” wax. Here is why: In the US the largest wax companies...
Kris Freeman, the top ranked skier on the US Ski Team is planning on racing next week in Northern Maine. Kris visited Fischer today in Concord, New Hampshire while finishing up his Christmas shopping and announced his decision; “I have to race at least once this year on US Soil! I went to the races in the County a few years ago and was impressed by the trails, grooming, and professionalism of the event. Since...
Fasterskier.com continues to provide some of the latest news and research regarding Cross-Country training. The December issue covers an interview with the successful Norwegian National Team Sprint Coach about his approach to sprint training. As we have seen this season, the Norwegian Team has overtaken the Swedes as the fastest skiers on the World Cup tour. The second article in the Club News gives a summary of the theory behind performance training, and focuses in...
Biathlon skier Lars Berger (25) regrets that he wasn’t involved in setting the pace in last weekend’s 30-kilometer World Cup race in Ramsau, Austria reports Norwegian newspaper VG. He felt that the race was skied in a snail pace: – I was surprised how easy we were skiing. The pace was never really fast. I therefore regret that I didn’t position myself better in order to have a chance at influencing the outcome of the...
The December 9-12 FasterSkier.com on-snow camp had it all: interval training, speed, strength, physiology and training talk by famous professor of physiology, wax clinic, training planning talk, lactate testing, a 10-kilometer race, video analyzes and best of all – Great Skiing! All but one ski session were held at the Olympic trails at Soldier Hollow. Some comments we got after the clinic: – I need to go home, rest and absorb all this. – This...
Remi Andresen of Norway had a tough start position in Saturday’s World Cup 30-kilometer mass start skate race in Ramsau, Austria. He was reasonably satisfied with his race and hopes to get more chances. – I started all the way back in the twelfth row and that’s not a good start position. The conditions made it hard to pass. I stood completely still for about 45 seconds in the first uphill scratching my head. It...
Anders Aukland, classic specialist, the 2004 Swedish Vasaloppet winner, World Cup winner and a member of the Norwegian national team has performed well below expectations so far this season. He is struggling with a virus that appears and acts like mononucleosis.
Kristin Stormer Steira (23), Norway made her first ever World Cup individual podium finish in Ramsau on Saturday by placing second in the 15-kilometer free technique mass-start race. Steira had not counted on or even thought about being the one that would be closest to the winner Kristina Smigun. – The podium is always a dream. But that wasn’t on my mind today. I envisioned maybe a sixth place, admits the 23-year old to Norwegian...
It didn't take Lars Flora long to adjust to being back in North America. A week after taking part in a wild finish at La Sgambeda in Italy ( http://www.fasterskier.com/racing.php?id=1656 ) Flora won today's 15K Free technique SuperTour race at Soldier Hollow. Wednesday' pursuit winner, Ivan Babikov, was second and David Chamberlain was third. Flora was also the top American (3rd overall) in Wednesday's pursuit race.Hermod Hill Split Time Results ). Flora was the fastest...
Lars Flora added to a string of podium finishes over the past several days at Soldier Hollow by out-sprinting US Sprint Team star Andrew Newell, on the final leg of the men's 6 x 1.3km freestyle team sprint relay. Andrew Newell Dave Chamberlain On his final anchor leg, Dave Chamberlain maintained most of the 8.8-second lead that Zach Simons had over fourth place team Rob Whitney / Ivan Babikov at the final exchange, Chamberlain giving...
After placing 2nd and 3rd respectively in yesterday's 10km freestyle event, Rebecca Dussault and Kikkan Randall combined forces to win on the final day of SuperTour racing at Soldier Hollow for December. Kikkan Randall After five alternating laps, Dussault tagged off to Randall in first place, as Karin Camenisch sent teammate Brooke Baughman on her way less than a second behind. With a solid 20-second lead over the third place team of Sandra Gredig and...
Sarah Konrad had a dominating performance in Saturday's 10 K free technique SuperTour race at Soldier Hollow. She won by almost 50 seconds over Rebecca Dussault, while Kikkan Randall was third, almost two minutes behind. The key to Sarah's victory can be seen in the special “Hermod Hill Splits” on the results in this link: