Note: This is the second profile in a new series about working out with high-performance athletes. While Alex Matthews was in Middlebury to observe and report, she focused on the kids who trained with U.S. Olympian Garrott Kuzzy at a summer camp. MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Leaning on the back of his Volkswagen station wagon, Garrott Kuzzy smiled as his training partners arrived at the Middlebury College parking lot. All seven poured out of two vehicles....
All signs and forecasts are pointing to another spectacular snow year here in the Methow, so I've been anxious to get all the mountain time I can before they close up with the fluffy white stuff. Last week Alison and I packed up the camera and the Husk...
All signs and forecasts are pointing to another spectacular snow year here in the Methow, so I've been anxious to get all the mountain time I can before they close up with the fluffy white stuff. Last week Alison and I packed up the camera and the Husk...
All signs and forecasts are pointing to another spectacular snow year here in the Methow, so I've been anxious to get all the mountain time I can before they close up with the fluffy white stuff. Last week Alison and I packed up the camera and the Husk...
Despite her small stature, Liz Stephen had a big season in 2011-2012. She had the best string of World Cup results in her young career, finishing in the top 30 three times over the course of the World Cup season. Stephen also had a strong performance at the World Championships in Oslo, finishing an impressive 16th in the 30 k freestyle, as well as 24th in the 15 k skiathlon. The diminutive 24 year old,...
When Kim Francom remembered Jessie Gardiner, the image of how they met rang crystal clear. Some 25 years ago, Gardiner had appeared on horseback, riding down a road in Park City, Utah. At the time, Francom had an adaptive horse-riding program in the area, and Gardiner immediately volunteered her services. Twenty years later, Francom needed a winter specialist as the Canyon Parks supervisor in Springville, Utah. He had made a point to keep in touch...
This morning we did some classic starts, speeds, and finishes at the Sun Bowl. Lots of good improvements all around as we worked on being fast off the line, finding good body position for double pole and fighting all the way to the finish. Most sprin...
If you imagine a typical skier’s career in FIS points, it will often follow a vaguely parabolic shape: they get faster for a while and then get slower for a while. Somewhere in between there they “peaked”. Our goal in this post is to estimate approximately when this occurs for each athlete and then see [...] Related posts:
As soon as the news broke that Estonian Olympic gold medalist and world champion Andrus Veerpalu had tested positive for human growth hormone (HGH), the ski world knew that a fight lay ahead. For Veerpalu and the Estonians, a doping ban would be disastrous; as FasterSkier reported a 1999 study by a group of European and Australian researchers showed that exercise did spike HGH levels in the bloodstream by more then tenfold, the decline was dramatic...
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Reunion of sorts - Coach Beckwith (WJC '99) meeting Peter Schlickenrieder (WJC '89) - Moving Planet Day 2011The past few mornings I have been waking up early enough that I might be rivaling past Middlebury College Coach, Terry Aldrich in his zeal for t...
Reunion of sorts - Coach Beckwith (WJC '99) meeting Peter Schlickenrieder (WJC '89) - Moving Planet Day 2011The past few mornings I have been waking up early enough that I might be rivaling past Middlebury College Coach, Terry Aldrich in his zeal for t...
Reunion of sorts - Coach Beckwith (WJC '99) meeting Peter Schlickenrieder (WJC '89) - Moving Planet Day 2011The past few mornings I have been waking up early enough that I might be rivaling past Middlebury College Coach, Terry Aldrich in his zeal for t...
This video comes from the descent down the local ski area access road where I grew up. The kids ripping through some prime apple, pear and cherry orchards in the Wenatchee Valley.wenatchee teaser from Curtis Onchi on Vimeo.
This video comes from the descent down the local ski area access road where I grew up. The kids ripping through some prime apple, pear and cherry orchards in the Wenatchee Valley.wenatchee teaser from Curtis Onchi on Vimeo.
This video comes from the descent down the local ski area access road where I grew up. The kids ripping through some prime apple, pear and cherry orchards in the Wenatchee Valley.wenatchee teaser from Curtis Onchi on Vimeo.
This video comes from the descent down the local ski area access road where I grew up. The kids ripping through some prime apple, pear and cherry orchards in the Wenatchee Valley.wenatchee teaser from Curtis Onchi on Vimeo.
It was Moving Planet Day today, and we celebrated the cause by going skiing on a shrinking glacier in Italy. Opportunities like this one will become increasingly rare in the world unless we can commit to change worldwide. And this day—perfect on-snow...
It was Moving Planet Day today, and we celebrated the cause by going skiing on a shrinking glacier in Italy. Opportunities like this one will become increasingly rare in the world unless we can commit to change worldwide. And this day—perfect on-snow...
It was Moving Planet Day today, and we celebrated the cause by going skiing on a shrinking glacier in Italy. Opportunities like this one will become increasingly rare in the world unless we can commit to change worldwide. And this day—perfect on-snow...