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Audrey Mangan (@audreymangan) is an Associate Editor at FasterSkier and lives in Colorado. She learned to love skiing at home in Western New York.
http://www.ymcarockies.org/smrnordicraces.htm. For more information, please call the Snow Mountain Ranch Nordic Center at 888-573-9622. For skiers looking to stay the night on Friday and Saturday, cabins and lodge rooms will be at super value rates. Cabins start at $139 per night and lodge rooms start at $79 per night. Stay two nights and get the third night free. Snow Mountain Ranch offers more than just great Nordic skiing; the pool, sauna, family programs, craft shop, snowshoeing...
Ski Denver Brings City Skiing To Colorado
Audrey ManganOctober 25, 2012
One of the more ironic aspects to living in the Front Range of Colorado, from a skier’s perspective, is the fact of being so close to some of the best skiing in the U.S. and yet having to drive so far to actually access it. Denver residents can see snow-capped peaks from the city, but usually have to drive at least an hour to reach decent cross-country skiing. The Denver Nordic Ski Association, or Ski...
The 7.5 category at Årefjällsloppet will be Swix Ski Classics Final 2013. Årefjällsloppet is Sweden’s new international long-distance cross-country ski race and will be held by the end of March. The race have an easy track profile, very similar to Vasaloppet and everyone can participate. Panoramic sceneries and the finish line in the center of Åre will make this a spectacular race. After the final the prizes and prize money will be awarded, and “The...
For someone who finished the World Cup last winter ranked second in the overall standings, Canada’s Devon Kershaw flies relatively well under the radar. While his own teammate Alex Harvey is treated as a “pseudo-god” in Quebec, Kershaw is rarely mentioned by name when European journalists ask Dario Cologna (SUI) or Petter Northug (NOR) whom they’re watching out for in the coming year. This relative anonymity, Kershaw says, is just fine by him. “It’s pretty...
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Testing, One Two Three
Audrey ManganOctober 18, 2012
The U.S. Ski Team’s cross-country athletes finished their final round of pre-season testing last week in Park City, Utah. Athlete blogs currently abound with documentation of skiers pushing themselves to the point of falling off the treadmill in order to collect data on how much they’ve each progressed since their last test. The importance an athlete attaches to his or her test results varies by individual, but in the lab and in training they can...
If the ski arenas currently under construction in Sochi, Russia, remain at their current size, the International Ski Federation is going to be unhappy with spectator capacity for Olympic ski competitions come 2014. International Ski Federation President and International Olympic Committee member Gian Franco Kasper criticized the venues for being unprepared for the Games based on his observations from last week’s site visit. At a Tuesday press conference in Cavalese, Italy, for the Val di...
CSU Classic Rollerski Race Set for Nov. 4
Audrey ManganOctober 15, 2012
The annual Cambridge Sports Union (CSU) rollerski will be held in North Andover on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 9:30 a.m. The race is a 7.5 k classic (one lap) for juniors and a 15 k (two laps) for everyone else. The roads are generally in excellent shape. CSU is seeking help from a few volunteers to help with timing and watching intersections. Let Jamie Doucett know if you (jdoucett@comcast.net) can help out.
26th Annual Governor’s Cup at Devil’s Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa. January 26, 2013. Participate or spectate – this annual event brings skiers of all ages and abilities together for a day of racing, camaraderie, and fun. $5,000 in cash and prizes awarded to winners in 5km, 15km, 30km races. 1km Fun Kids race also available. Entry fees include BBQ for race participants. Register at
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) delivered a definitive indictment to the world on Wednesday morning with the release of its reasoned decision regarding seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. In the 1,000-plus page document sent to the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-Doping agency, USADA found Armstrong guilty of using of performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career and of playing a central role in enforcing a systematic doping program on the U.S. Postal team....
For Graefnings, College Jump-Starts Focus on Skiing
Audrey ManganOctober 8, 2012
This past March, Maria Graefnings capped off a hugely successful college career in winning her second NCAA title in the 5-kilometer freestyle at Bohart Ranch in Bozeman, Mont. In her two years at the University of Utah, the Swede dominated the Rocky Mountain region with eleven total RMISA wins. She once gave Kikkan Randall a run for her money in Idaho at SuperTour Finals. But instead of riding off into the sunset after graduation, as many...
It’s here: the first skiable snow of the season fell over the weekend in Anchorage, Alaska, much to the delight of area skiers and envy of everyone in the continental U.S. Rock skis were still necessary, but the close access, crisp air and fresh powder ushered in that first-snow excitement even for athletes used to skiing throughout the summer on Eagle Glacier. “I was a little blown away by the snow,” said Alaska Pacific University’s...
There is a certain optimism that hangs in the air now that October is fast approaching. The temperature has cooled, leaves are turning red and snow is already accumulating in the mountains. Every year, signs of the changing seasons bring a sudden need for snow sport enthusiasts to urgently dial in their gear to be ready the instant the first skiable snow falls. Skiers may be chomping at the bit more than usual this season...
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...
A few weeks ago 18-year-old Norwegian cyclist Oskar Svedsen turned heads by doing something no one has done before in the world of physiological testing: he recorded a V02max of 97.5 mL/kg/min. The number surpasses the high water mark long held by Bjørn Dæhlie (96 mL/kg/min), making Svedsen the young new king of aerobic capacity. Whether it has any significance or not, cross-country skiing can no longer lay claim to the best V02max in...