Two days after the Hoppet, conditions are perfect for crust skiing. Finn Marsland, Valerio Leccardi, Esther Bottomley, Nick Grimmer, and I had an epic ski this morning. Instead of boring you with words, I give you photos from the Falls Creek High Planes and the Bogong Plateau, high atop Australia. Enjoy!
Whenever nordic skiers are being stereotyped, you are almost sure to hear the word granola, often accompanied by words like crunchy, and nature. So what better to bake than a food that will fulfill all the world’s stereotypes about us? Because granola can be made with just about anything, the recipe is wide open to your interpretation. Substitute craisins for raisins, throw in your leftover almonds, replace the fiber with chocolate – go nuts!
After ten days of murky, overcast Australian skies, I awoke on Saturday morning to bright sunrays streaming through the window. A vivid bluebird day was the ideal backdrop to the 2010 Kangaroo Hoppet. Three feet of fresh powder fell on Falls Creek during the week and was groomed to perfection under the Southern [...]
Today Lauren and I were coaching the BKL kids, and had them running 2 minute intervals on the trails. We tried to explain that the intervals were supposed to be as hard as possible: run as fast as you can! Go as hard as you can go! Give 100% – this shouldn’t feel like 90% [...]
Not a whole lot has changed in the past couple of weeks of training in Anchorage with APU. Summer has finally come at the perfect time to throw down lots of hard training. Here is a video of APU boys and girls, distance skiers and sprinters, putting in some hard double pole intervals out at Kincaid. Last week we had testing series to find out where our training sits at this point- and what areas we need to work in for the next month of training. Time for some power training for most of us!divspan class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:-webkit-monospace;font-size:12px;"object width="640" height="385"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DI90gMTwTFc?fs=1amp;hl=en_US"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DI90gMTwTFc?fs=1amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"/embed/object/spanbr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2018521813175454198-6635083544405694514?l=sadiebjornsen.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
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Ideal day for the 2010 Hoppet–first time seeing my shadow (and also the sun) in Australia! Cruised the 42km with a 5 skier lead pack. Lost a little juice towards the end and finished 5th, about a minute out from champ Valerio Leccardi. My Dad wrapped up his 11th Worldloppet marathon with a 3:14 42km [...]
It’s been a light week at Statistical Skier; had to move the Statistical Residence to a new (much improved) locale closer to work, so things have been a bit hectic. We mucked around with the speeds that skiers travel at, looking at differences between races in Europe and the US. A short not on rivalries, [...] Related posts:
Fundraising event to feature dancing, fitness bootcamp, drumming and inspirational talk by Olympic gold medalist Chandra Crawford Canmore, Alberta – Fast and Female presented by Best Buy will host its first Women’s Fit-Fest in Canmore, Alberta on September 18, 2010. Held in conjunction with CBC’s Sports Day in Canada, the women-only event will be held at the Canmore Collegiate High School from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will feature dancing, bootcamp circuits, drumming, and...
(Full time seasonal Oct – April) The position will oversee on snow and administrative operations for the Auburn Ski Club Associates’ Nordic Training Center based Programs. The Auburn Ski Club has a long history of offering quality, low cost programs & events to encourage youth to participate in snow-sports. We are looking for a self-starter with a passion for youth & skiing to help us oversee and further develop our youth, junior & adult recreational Nordic programs...
Join the MOD Squad and coach Scott Johnston for any one (or more!) of three, 2-day seminars on the secrets of successful endurance training. The clinics will be:br /br /September 24-25 Wenatchee, WAbr /October 9-10 Mazama, WAbr /October 23-24 Kongsberg...
Another helpful commenter reminded me that Norwegian Tore Ruud Hofstad also retired this past July. My results for Hofstad stretch back to World Junior races in 1998 up to his retirement in 2010. I think one of the reasons I may have overlooked him is that he didn’t really race much last season. In fact, [...] Related posts:
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In ideal circumstances, we train long quality hours and recover well in accordance with those hours. Since April things have been going about that well - my hours each week have been consisently high and very good quality and most weeks all I've needed...
mo·jo n. pl. mo·jos or mo·joes 1. A magic charm or spell. 2. An amulet, often a small flannel bag containing one or more magic items, worn by adherents of hoodoo or voodoo. 3. Personal magnetism; charm. (from thefreedictionary.com) While running down Bolton mountain a couple of weeks ago, I got into a discussion with one of my biathlon teammates about [...]
NORWAY – Bringing young athletes from all the ski disciplines onto one team is the recipe for excellence in the future. “Team Morgendagens Helter” is 5-year talent development project organized by the Norwegian Ski Association and backed by major sponsor Statoil, designed to share training strategies and increase the pool of experience across the different ski disciplines.
Winter Carnival weekend here in Falls Creek with big festivities for the Kangaroo Hoppet. Last night included opening ceremonies with fireworks, parade including an over-snow fire truck, and Night Sprints. Similar to the Elite Sprints down Main Street in Hayward, this sprint featured a steep downhill start with some fast corners and short climbs on [...]
