As we head into our camp season we are grateful for our beautiful valley and humbled by the dynamic nature of recent summer weather systems. Today we watched the radar closely and managed to have two safe and quality sessions on roller skis...
Happy Birthday little brother! Chad and I planned to go for a ski tour on Sunday to celebrate our Birthday. However rain and snow is not the best combo so we opted for a a traverse over Lucky Jim. The weather cleared up as we ran along the top. ...
Note: This is the fifth preview in a quick-and-dirty series on U.S. elite teams. We asked coaches to send their 2012/2013 rosters and tell us what’s new for the coming season. We will be publishing additional reports over the next few weeks. Teams are presented in no particular order. Team: Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) Coaches: Pepa Miloucheva (head coach, 15th season), Jeremy Nellis (junior coach) Senior roster: Ida Sargent (U.S. Ski Team), Susan Dunklee...
Here is my first attempt at the SMS blog. I'll just stick with a few photos this time of Andy, Eric, guest Mikey Sinnot, Erika, and Sophie on a long easy OD over the NY border. Andy has said it over years and I'm inclined to agree, best rol...
These last days I've spending in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, with one of my new favorite discoveries has been Antelope Island out in the Great Salt Lake. Wide open roads shared with as many buffalo and antelope as vehicles makes for a great...
With our Elite team off roller skiing, our Devo team resting and a bunch of the kids headed up to the REG camp, we had a small, but spirited group for our hike/run this morning. We all started at the base of the gondola and headed up and around the bac...
For all you North Americans out there I’m sure you are familiar with the great piece Chelsea Little put together for FasterSkier this spring on US biathletes and school… For all you who are not familiar with these articles you can find them here, here, and here... and well also here AND here. (reading all [...]
Final hard workout of my Methow Valley spring training camp today. It has been incredible working with Scott and Sam and I feel really good about the improvements we have made. Today's workout went great and with the variables so well contr...
We had a good crew for our bounding workout this morning. We started with some warm up drills.......that included strides...jumps....speed ladder...plus a couple other goodies, then we headed down for 6-8 loops around our bounding trail.These girl...
Note: This is the fourth preview in a quick-and-dirty series on U.S. elite teams. We asked coaches to send their 2012/2013 rosters and tell us what’s new for the coming season. We will be publishing additional reports over the next few weeks. Teams are presented in no particular order. Team: Central Cross Country, known as CXC Team Coaches: Igor Badamshin (head coach), Andy Keller (assistant) Roster: Karl Nygren, Brian Gregg, Doug Debold, Adam Martin, Eric Wolcott; Jennie Bender, Caitlin Gregg, Nichole Bathe...
I’m alive! I promise! Today I finally finished up another round of college courses. Six credits in Six weeks. (and to think at one point I was considering trying to take nine!) I’m exhausted. After a hot morning on the roller-loop a two hour final and finishing up an eight page paper were waiting for [...]
Now that school is over the real work begins ! The daily schedule of attending school and athletic practice makes it easy to have a complex schedule seem pretty easy to maintain. Accustomed to a routine that YOU have been in fo...
Note: This is the third preview in a quick-and-dirty series on U.S. elite teams. We asked coaches to send their 2012/2013 rosters and tell us what’s new for the coming season. We will be publishing additional reports over the next few weeks. Teams are presented in no particular order. Team: Maine Winter Sports Center Olympic Development Teams Coaches: Will Sweetser (cross-country), Seth Hubbard (biathlon), Amber Dodge (development), TBD (wax tech, intern) Roster: Cross-country: Kris Freeman (U.S....
H^3 today..luckily we started our 2+ hour double pole workout at 8 am.Our route took us from the Londonderry shopping center up through Weston.Chloe enjoyed the flowers, but not using skate skis with classic boots... I bet next time she grabs the corre...
Travel is a big issue for cross country skiers, particularly those of us living in North America. Flying back and forth to Europe can be both time consuming and exhausting for athletes. Obviously, this can have some serious effects on performance. Of course, this works both ways. Presumably it’s difficult for Europeans to travel to [...] Related posts:
In order to legally compete in any event sanctioned by the International Ski Federation, there are 47 pages worth of rules regarding equipment that athletes must comply with. Within these pages, collectively of the Specifications for Competition Equipment and Commercial Markings, certain equipment is forbidden (like collapsing poles) and a ski’s minimum weight is limited (to 750 grams per pair for cross-country). Four whole pages of that document are dedicated to the fabric and construction...
Note: This is the second preview in a quick-and-dirty series on U.S. elite teams. We asked coaches to send their 2012/2013 rosters and tell us what’s new for the coming season. We will be publishing additional reports over the next few weeks. Teams are presented in no particular order. Team: Bend Endurance Academy (BEA) Coach: Ben Husaby Roster: Dakota Blackhorse-von Jess, Reitler Hodgert, Lars Ellefson Who’s new: Hodgert, moving up from junior ranks Who’s missing:...
We headed to BMD this morning for L3 intervals and some technique work. It was a nice morning for a ski and we had a big group (30 people) doing the workout. Above, Gus gets the group warmed up with some skate drills. Will lead...
In a post last week I talked about how I felt that a single early season result wasn’t necessarily a great predictor of how someone will tend to ski (on average) during the rest of the season. I feel like most people would accept that this is, in principle, generally true. Just because you pop [...] Related posts:
