Kikkan Randall’s season hasn’t started, but she’s already claimed her first victory: healing the stress fracture in her right foot in time for the first World Cup race of the winter. Randall will compete in Saturday morning’s 10-kilometer freestyle opener in northern Sweden—her first race after
There's only one nordic groomer in West Yellowstone and that's Doug Edgerton. Founder and president of the world-famous Yellowstone Track Systems, Edgerton let FasterSkier ride along while he groomed South Plateau early Wednesday morning.
Team XC United (formerly Team Birkie) is a Nordic race team comprised of master skiers that have come together to support elite skier Matthew Liebsch in his pursuit of the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
A week ago, Yellowstone Ski Festival organizers saw the writing on the wall and started planning ahead. They might not get much snow, but they were going to get people to the white stuff somehow. For the first time, they offered a shuttle system to the South Plateau, which required some timely logistics.
This year, like last year, the US Ski Team is partnering with The Aspen Times on a feature they are calling the “Athlete Spotlight”. Each week, a different US Ski Team athlete from the Roaring Fork Valley will write an … Continue reading →
This past weekend I had my first races of the season. Saturday was a 5k classic race and Sunday was a 10k skate. It felt great to get a couple races under my belt and I had some solid results, including a second on Sunday! It was pret...
I had two one hour workouts yesterday. I classic skied in the morning and skated in the afternoon. There was an inversion. It was warm up at our hotel but cold (single digits Fahrenheit) at the venue. I am always impressed … Continue reading →
It rained in West Yellowstone on Tuesday. There are thousands of people in town for a ski festival, and it rained. Against this backdrop, the festival organizers officially designated the South Plateau Whisky trail as the venue for the SuperTour distance race and bumped what is now a 9 k freestyle up to Friday. It wasn’t unexpected — the Rendezvous Trails have received little to no additional snow over the past few days and forecasts...
Due to the lamentable conditions in West Yellowstone, there’s a chance that the SuperTour freestyle sprint originally scheduled here this weekend will end up taking place at Bohart Ranch instead. The Bozeman venue is already set to hold a SuperTour classic sprint and mass start on December 1 and 2. Bridger Ski Foundation director and race organizer Dragen Danevski said on Tuesday that he was confident Bohart could pull off a third race, which...
The following is a press release from the Alberta World Cup Academy. The Alberta World Cup Academy (AWCA) coaching staff play an essential role in our National Nordic Skiing Success. The AWCA was developed to offer developing athletes a means to improve their Nordic skiing technique and physical capacity. Many of the AWCA athletes are now representing Canada in the world cup circuit. The week following the world cup the AWCA is planning to run...
I do realize I promised to write you a post about our time in Utah… but in retrospect that might have been a lie? Utah was great, the training (albeit frustrating at times) was good, the sun was appreciated and the snow was not. I got to run in the hills, rollerski in circles, eat [...]
The following is a press release from the West Yellowstone Festival director, Moira Dow, on the status of the upcoming SuperTour opener. Check back on FasterSkier for more information regarding SuperTour options in West Yellowstone and Bozeman, Mont. Thank you all for attending this year’s Fall Festival, and thank you for your patience while we explore our best options for hosting this seasons scheduled races. With the uncertainties of the weather combined with our...
GRP Limelights occur monthly and showcase members and/or people closely associated with the GRP Rowing & Skiing Teams. Lynn Jennings was one of the first people I met at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. Little did I know that the woman, who came out from the faded Duck Blind to find her dog, Towhee, staring at [...]
We skied some classic intervals under grey skies this morning. The temps rose overnight to around 40 so that was discouraging, but the intervals went well and the trails were relatively uncrowded.Skyler did some longer L3 intervals and the rest o...
Entering his third straight season with the Canadian Para-Nordic World Cup Team, Erik Carleton has already made some big decisions this year. Among them, he had to choose whether to race the Alberta Cross Country World Cup in Canmore or go for gold at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup opener in Vuokatti, Finland. It must be tough to be Carleton, a competitive-nordic racer who doubles as a Para-Nordic guide for Brian McKeever, arguably the...
Graduate Study of Exercise Physiology in Nordic Skiing The Department of Health & Human Development (HHD) at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman, MT, is actively seeking applications for graduate study in applied exercise physiology (Masters degree only; Fall 2013). Dr Dan Heil (http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=9158 We also have lots of lab testing photos on the Facebook page for the Movement Science / Human Performance Lab (MSL): http://www.montana.edu/hhd/facultyandstaff/dheil.htm More information about our graduate program is here: http://www.montana.edu/wwwdg/apply.html...
Lots of racing this weekend, obviously, but the Muonio results only appeared on the FIS website today, so they’ll wait for later in the week. I was intrigued, though, but Therese Johaug’s strong races in Norway. For many reasons, it will be difficult to accurately parse early season results this year. Many people are focused [...] Related posts:
Here’s some awesome video our physical therapist Tara Fontenot took of Saturday’s classic race in Muonio Finland: And here’s a picture Brian Fish took of me in Sunday’s Skate Race: Yesterday morning I skated for a little over two hours. … Continue reading →
I was a bit nervous about returning to Muonio this year after getting burnt out on the darkness and Arctic living here last November when the snow was very scarce. I was at my breaking point last year and didn’t know if I could ski another loop in the dark around the short, icy, and [...]
November is up and ready on XC Ski Girl for those who are interested! http://xcskigirl04.blogspot.comThe US Team drove 3 hours from Muonio to Gallivare yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed a long sunset... and then it was dark at 2 or 3 in the afternoo...