The spring has flown by, it seems like just a couple weeks ago that we were racing in Quebec and the world was melting around us. Those weeks of relaxing and no structured training gave everyone a chance to relax and catch up on some of the things we h...
They spend half the year competing against Norway every weekend in Europe, but for a few days this June, U.S. distance specialists Kris Freeman and Noah Hoffman will be welcomed into the Norwegian National Team’s training camp on the snow fields at Sognefjell. If you don’t happen to read every paid advertisement that goes up on this site, you may have missed the announcement of this website, Alsgaard saw Hoffman ski last December in Davos,...
BEND, Ore. – Jean-Philippe Le Guellec was riding high in 2010 when he finished sixth in the sprint, 11th in the pursuit, and 13th in the individual at the Vancouver Olympics. The Canadian biathlete – then 24 – was motivated and aiming for his first Word Cup podium. The 2011 season didn’t go quite as expected; he picked up just four top-20 results and late in the year received a diagnosis of mononucleosis, which explained...
Here’s the state of things, team-by-team after yesterday’s Stage 18: One thing to note (that you can’t quite see in this graph) is that this year’s course has caused slightly more of a spread in the field than the previous two. Related posts:Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Giro d’Italia – After Stage 8 Giro [...] Related posts:
Here’s the state of things, team-by-team after yesterday’s Stage 18: One thing to note (that you can’t quite see in this graph) is that this year’s course has caused slightly more of a spread in the field than the previous two. Related posts:Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Giro d’Italia – After Stage 8 Giro [...] Related posts:
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My last post was about the last time I was in the full on ski scene. I took a month off after the Super Tour Finals in Vermont, I had a great time in Alaska doing things I rarely get to do. For me it is necessary to once a year push the good old reset ...
BEND, Ore. – The U.S. and Canadian national teams are here in Bend to get on snow, and they seem to be loving it. But what about skiers who are already located in the Oregon Cascades? On several days, local high school athletes have also made the drive up to Mount Bachelor to ski and soak in the atmosphere at North America’s own version of the Dachstein glacier. Unlike senior World Cup athletes, most juniors...
We are again offering our summer program for aspiring local skiers. Our Elite program offers 3-5 supervised workouts/week and is for top high school and college age skiers. Our Devo program is for 10-15 year old skiers and allows participants to train ...
The Maine Winter Sports Center (MWSC) officially grew by two on Thursday, adding U.S. Ski Team veteran Kris Freeman and US Biathlete Annelies Cook to its roster. They join another national team member, biathlete Russell Currier, and three others on the Caribou-based club’s Olympic development team. While the MWSC’s competitive program took off in earnest 11 years ago and produced several Olympic biathletes and cross-country Olympian Ben Koons, the recent signings mean more good news...
BEND, Oregon – Biathlon Canada Head Coach Matthias Ahrens, a native of Germany, had never been to Bend until this month. But now that he’s seen what the town has to offer, he anticipates being back. “It’s perfect,” he told FasterSkier as his athletes did an interval workout on Wednesday. “It’s so nice that now we have winter conditions – every day it has been perfect conditions for skiing, plus you can go down and...
The Blink Ski Festival, touted as the largest summer ski event in the world, takes place in Sandnes, Norway, every July and attracts some of the best skiers in the world. This year its international lineup extends to the US; Kikkan Randall and Liz Stephen will be joining an impressive lineup of other world-class nordic athletes at the festival, which runs July 19 – 21. The rollerski festival features biathlon and cross-country events for juniors...
BEND, Ore. – It may have been spring at Mount Bachelor this weekend, but by the time Wednesday rolled around, it was more like winter. Snow had fallen overnight and stuck to the mountain’s flanks, and flurries continued to drift from the sky as the U.S. and Canadian national ski teams competed in relay races with several club teams. Canadian Olympian and current Alberta World Cup Academy coach George Grey skied the course before the...
I found Vermont Peanut Butter in a cupboard in Utah!!! So psyched!!!If you haven't tried their peanut butters, get on it! Check it out here:Vermont Peanut Butter CompanyHEY!!! I'm back!!! I took a long break from skiing and anything ski related, includ...
I started the first training camp of the year with serious race anxiety. My stomach was in knots, I was overly jittery from consuming too much coffee, and I was just trying to stay relaxed. It felt like the World Championships and my life was on th...
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We’re in the final stages of planning our June trip to Norway and Austria. This process involves two ski companies, two national teams, a school calendar, three sets of grandparents, at least two siblings, and some as-yet-undetermined vehicles. So it’s taken a little while to get the details ironed out! The major excitement for us [...]
We have a huge North American training group together this week in Bend. It’s a lot of fun to see so many familiar faces in the summer time and also to train with athletes who we often only see at races. Yesterday everyone did a classic spe...
We continued our spring training this past Monday with a bigger group and a few new faces. After practicing some juggling skills with the soccer balls, we worked our way through a dryland technique progression then went for an easy run (the kids ...
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