Training has been going exceptionally well here in Bend, with sunny skies and warm temperatures greeting us every morning at the mountain. We've gotten some great technique work done, as well as a couple strength workouts where we experimented with new...
Recently Andy Newell participated in a
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Last week the US Ski Team announced announced nominations to the 2009-2010 US Cross-Country Ski Team. Assuming all candidates accept nominations, the Team will decrease in size from 18 athletes to 11. No new skiers have been added, though several have been promoted from the B Team to the A Team. The decrease in team size was not financially motivated. Athletes can qualify through objective criteria or be added as discretionary choices. The objective criteria...
BEND, OR – Following a season of incredible success, including Kikkan Randall’s (Anchorage, AK) World Championship silver medal, the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team reunited this week in Oregon to begin its training season in the lead up to the 2010 Olympics. “It’s an early camp, so we’re really trying to lay down base fitness. We’re also working on technique with each individual working on their weaknesses at the moment,” Cross Country Head coach Pete...
CXC Masters Team was established two years ago as an outreach mechanism to promote cross country skiing and as a fundraising opportunity for the CXC Youth Program while providing unique opportunities to Master skiers around the region. This year the CXC Masters Team is expanding programming by establishing specific chapters around the region. CXC coaches will be assigned to each chapter to work with Master skiers in group and individual settings. Each chapter will have...
ttspan style="font-size:85%;"Hey everyone-br /br / Monday night we had our second annual roller ski and end of the year team banquet at my house in the Champlain Valley. We had great weather and almost all of the athletes in attendance. This was a real...
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FasterSkier Cross-Country Skier of the Year This award is given to the top North American cross-country skier. Cross-Country Skier of the Year (women): Kikkan Randall (USA). Kikkan’s season got off to a slow start, but she stepped it up when it mattered most, winning the first Championship medal ever by a US woman, when she took the Silver at the World Championships in Liberec. This race netted her the FasterSKier Performance of the Year. In...
A number of high-tech innovations will be used at the Olympics – in some cases to add accuracy to scoring and timing, and in others, to enhance the spectator experience. Including: – A high-definition judges’ scoring system to be used in figure skating. – A high-definition video replay system to be used in short-track speed skating. – Global positioning technology to follow the progress of cross-country skiers. – RFID technology for ski-cross and snowboard-cross events....
Click HERE to view an article about the Silent Sports May Athlete of the Month! I’d like to say a BIG thank you to Lee Borowski for taking the time to nominate me and write this wonderful article. I’d also like to thank Lee for all of the help he gave me as a developing high [...]
It’s May 19th, my high school track season is almost over, and it feels like It just started. My history teacher, Mr. Kulsrud has always tried to talk me into running track, so I decided to give it a shot. Last fall Scott challenged me to break 4:40 ...
After a great stay with the DelBellos in downstate Michigan, I am back in Marquette. The summer is off to a great start (it hasn’t really felt like summer though… it snowed here on Saturday…) The good news is that my legs are feeling better every day. I have been adding some running and bounding back into the training, [...]
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Yesterday morning Scott, myself, Brian Gregg and Sadie Bjornsen piled into Scott's Eurovan and made the seven and a half hour drive to Bend, Oregon for our first official MOD Team training camp. For the next seven days we'll eat, sleep and train in the...