LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Exactly a week ago, 40 elite skiers threw down some solid efforts at a U.S. Ski Team (USST) classic rollerski time trial, with the fastest men and women moving on to their respective quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. Sophie Caldwell and Andy Newell of the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team topped the women’s and men’s fields in the sprint workout. For more about the races,
(Press release) Enter for a Chance to Ski the Historic Re-Enactment of the Original Birkebeiner! This annual contest is now open for entries. The American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation (ABSF) is searching for three cross country skiers to depict the two Birkebeiner Warriors and Inga, the mother of baby Prince Haakon, at this year’s 40th annual American Birkebeiner ski race. Each year a trio is selected to ski the 54 kilometer journey from Cable to Hayward,...
One of the killer aspects of our lodging in NH. A full on tramp room! Owner Nick Preston is a top dog freestyle coach out of Waterville Valley and has a training center at his Mountain Fare Inn. Suzi his wife made us a massive a...
This morning I did skate threshold (sustainable pace) intensity at Soldier Hollow, the 2002 Olympic Cross Country venue. I did three by “2 laps”, which is just about 3 by 20min. The colors are beautiful right now. The workout went … Continue reading →
As a coach of T2T athletes, I rely heavily on relationship building to help engage and support athletes. Kids this age are monsters of relationship - keyed into peers heavily and significantly connected to social environments. For many year...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — As seven US Biathlon Team members repeated loops around the stadium during trail-running intervals at Mt. Van Hoevenberg on Friday, each had their own things going on, their own focus. A-Team athlete Susan Dunklee, a Craftsbury Green Racing Project skier who tied the best U.S. women’s result of fifth at Biathlon World Championships last year, warmed up and cooled down on her mountain bike to remedy tendonitis in her knee. But for the...
On Wednesday morning we took a trip down to Cody to 1) get some intensity in where the air is a little richer, and 2) check out the town! We started out with some DP drills to get warmed up for 3x (3km...More »
Today was a much needed rainy day here in Park City. The fire danger has continued to be extreme, so every bit of moisture helps. It made for a cold morning session: two and a half hour classic with a … Continue reading →
We just got back from two days in the White Mountains. It was a great way to start off our volume week (we do not have classes this week while our alpine team is in Chile). We started with a ski up the Kangamagus Highway, skiing up to the to...
Mark your calendars: 4th Annual SkiErg World Sprints will be held November 9–11, 2012 This 1000-meter race allows you to compare your time against others worldwide in a one-weekend showdown of speed. See how you stack up before you strap on your skis for the season! How it works: Race 1000 meters on the Concept2 SkiErg at your club, school or home, November 9–11, 2012. Post your time to the Concept2 logbook by 5 p.m. Monday,...
Finland’s Juha Mieto skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. The forthcoming Finnish documentary Sinivalkoinen Valhe (“Blue and White Lies”) made waves in the European ski world this week by accusing two prominent figures in skiing history of taking performance-enhancing drugs at the height of their careers: Finland’s Juha Mieto and Italy’s Manuela di Centa. Mieto has never been publicly accused of cheating before and is denying allegations from the film. Di Centa was...
Stay tuned this week for a bunch of video and photo updates from our two week training camp in the Sud Tirol region. We had a great camp with alum Antoine St-Louis, Bend Nordic's, Ryan St.Clair, and our current team.We were able to ski on the Ste...
Fischer Skis Announces 2012-2013 Athlete Signings, Led by World Cup Champion Kikkan Randall Eight of Thirteen U.S. Ski Team Cross-Country Racers Choose Fischer Skis AUBURN, N.H. — September 25, 2012 — Fischer Skis announced today that four of the six A Team athletes on the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team have committed to race on Fischer skis through the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, Ala.), Andrew Newell (Shaftsbury, Vt.), Kris Freeman (Andover,...
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The pace has already picked up, but I'm ready. This autumn is busier than ever at Nordic Ultratune. Service work is in full swing NOW! It's a good time to tune up the skis.I'll be flying to Utah to select the new Atomic skis at the Ogden warehous...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — While the U.S. Nordic Ski Team trained on the mountainous,
The notion of an athlete preferring distance races of a particular length is pretty familiar, but what about sprinting? The differences between a 0.8km and a 1.8km sprint course may not seem like much compared to the differences between a 15km and 30km race. But (while I’m not a physiology expert) it seems likely to [...] Related posts:
We’ve been waking up by alternating some short morning jogs and easy yoga. On Tuesday we went out for a distance rollerski. Sweetser started things off with a few body position drills: The boys heading up some classic Western terrain – long, steady...More »
Okay, I grew up in Washington (Seattle specifically) but moved North to Alaska shortly after I graduated from College. Since that day, I have considered myself closely associated with Alaska if not, purely Alaskan. Many times this has put m...