Following her Olympic debut in Turin, Italy in 2006, Rebecca Dussault planned to take a break, to include the birth of her second child, before returning to racing. The short break lasted a year and a half longer than planned when her husband Sharbel contracted a serious auto-immune disease. The long delay meant that her points coming into the 2010 season were far less than optimal and despite numerous fantastic results and a SuperTour championship,...
Driving from Ft. Kent to Mars Hill this morning you could tell it was going to be one of those great days to run Mars Hill. Russell and Leif missed the first go this past May so I took them down today to help them get their fill before they head off t...
Driving from Ft. Kent to Mars Hill this morning you could tell it was going to be one of those great days to run Mars Hill. Russell and Leif missed the first go this past May so I took them down today to help them get their fill before they head off t...
Driving from Ft. Kent to Mars Hill this morning you could tell it was going to be one of those great days to run Mars Hill. Russell and Leif missed the first go this past May so I took them down today to help them get their fill before they head off t...
Driving from Ft. Kent to Mars Hill this morning you could tell it was going to be one of those great days to run Mars Hill. Russell and Leif missed the first go this past May so I took them down today to help them get their fill before they head off t...
This past weekend 20 M.S. Racers from Maine gathered at the 10th Mtn. Center for their first summer Nordic camp. The kids were greeted by an enthusiastic group of coaches and athletes. The morning of day one consisted of some speed, agaility, and st...
This past weekend 20 M.S. Racers from Maine gathered at the 10th Mtn. Center for their first summer Nordic camp. The kids were greeted by an enthusiastic group of coaches and athletes. The morning of day one consisted of some speed, agaility, and st...
This past weekend 20 M.S. Racers from Maine gathered at the 10th Mtn. Center for their first summer Nordic camp. The kids were greeted by an enthusiastic group of coaches and athletes. The morning of day one consisted of some speed, agaility, and st...
This past weekend 20 M.S. Racers from Maine gathered at the 10th Mtn. Center for their first summer Nordic camp. The kids were greeted by an enthusiastic group of coaches and athletes. The morning of day one consisted of some speed, agaility, and st...
This whole victims and nemeses thing is entertaining up to a point, but the most interesting about it is that it sometimes leads me to comparisons and graphs that I wouldn’t have thought of looking at otherwise. That’s what happened when I sat down today intending to dash off something quick about Kris Freeman’s victims [...]
“Nothing smells like summer like sweaty pole straps.”br/br/ - em Kristina Strandberg (viaFacebook.)/em
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My dryland season job this year is perhaps the best I've had yet: junior coach. Three days a week I get to spend a few hours training with the Methow's up and coming teenage athletes as we run and rollerski and bag peaks in the North Cascades. This pas...
Last week I ranted a bit about the inadequacies of F-factors1. We looked at the results from interval vs. mass start races and determined that they do indeed produce different distributions of percent back’s (PB’s). Specifically, the results of a mass start race are more likely to be bunched closely near the top, meaning the [...]
Yesterday we began with an OD skate rollerski. It is awesome to ski up here because the scenery is so very beautiful. We were videoed doing V2 and then V1 and we will watch the video today. After another delicious lunch we were able to relax for 3 hour...
Training with Marit Bjoergen and the Norwegian women’s cross-country team might be an intimidating prospect even for some of North America’s elite men. But not for Kikkan Randall. In the middle of a two-week visit to Norway this month, Randall took up an offer to go head-to-head with the country’s women’s squad in a double-pole interval workout. And while the pace was high—“pretty much all out”—Randall wasn’t blown away. “It was pretty cool just to...
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It's hard to believe that June has come and is nearly gone already. Highlights from the past 30 days include skiing on Eagle glacier, coaching the Junior athletes at the Girdwood "Death" Camp, racing up Bird Ridge, and ski-touring above Prince William Sound. The name of the game up at the Thomas training facility on Eagle was: eat, ski, eat, sleep, eat, ski, eat, sleep, repeat. For those of you
It's hard to believe that June has come and is nearly gone already. Highlights from the past 30 days include skiing on Eagle glacier, coaching the Junior athletes at the Girdwood "Death" Camp, racing up Bird Ridge, and ski-touring above Prince William Sound. The name of the game up at the Thomas training facility on Eagle was: eat, ski, eat, sleep, eat, ski, eat, sleep, repeat. For those of you