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NSCF-FXC Hires Alasdair Tutt as Head Coach/Program Director

FasterSkierAugust 9, 2018

(Press release) The Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks (NSCF) announces the hiring of Alasdair Tutt as the new Fairbanks Cross Country (FXC) Head Coach and Program Director. Alasdair comes to the position with an extensive background in ski coaching and strength training. His coaching resume includes regional and national team positions in Australia and time with the Steamboat Springs (Colorado) Winter Sports Club, as well as being an assistant coach with NSCF-FXC since summer 2016. In addition to his coaching experience,...

Continental Cup Resources Training Workouts

Wednesday Workout: L3 Ski Walking Up Stratton Mountain

FasterSkierAugust 8, 2018

For this week’s workout, we feature the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team, also known as the Elite Team, out of Stratton, Vermont. The team’s full-time athletes live near the base of the alpine resort and take advantage of the following Level 3 (L3) ski-walking workout right out their front door. In an email, coach Patrick O’Brien explained why they often repeat this workout during the summer: “We can safely have a large number of people training...

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Blink Ends with Jam-Packed Friday/Saturday

FasterSkierAugust 5, 2018

The 2018 Blink Ski Festival continued in full force on Friday and Saturday, with cross-country and biathlon prologues, 10- and 15-kilometer cross-country races and biathlon mass starts all taking place on Friday, followed by sprints on Saturday. Results: Men’s cross-country prologue After the elite men’s prologue, athletes geared up for a men’s and women’s biathlon prologues. Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Bø took the men’s biathlon prologue win in a time of 10:30.2 after two misses (1+1)....

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Marchablanca, Ushuaia Loppet Coming Aug. 12

FasterSkierAugust 3, 2018

(Press release) The Marchablanca is coming! A celebration of Fuegian sport and winter Tierra del Fuego’s most important winter competitions, the 32nd Marchablanca and the 8th edition of the Ushuaia Loppet take place August 12, 2018. Registration remains open for a short time longer, don’t miss out! The 25 KM Marchablanca marks its 32nd edition in 2018, one of the oldest such events in the entire southern hemisphere. The 50 KM Ushuaia Loppet gives skiers...

Job Postings

Crosscut Seeks Head Coach for Bridger Biathlon

FasterSkierAugust 2, 2018

Bridger Biathlon is a program of Crosscut Mountain Sports Center, a nonprofit organization based in Bozeman, Montana that is building a year-round recreation, sports training and educational facility. Bridger Biathlon promotes athletic achievement and values of healthy living for all ages and abilities through recreational and competitive biathlon. Duties and Responsibilities Collaborate with the CMSC Executive Director on overall program and budget management Lead development of annual and seasonal training plans and daily workouts for...

Continental Cup Resources Training Workouts

Wednesday Workout: Craftsbury Running Intervals

FasterSkierAugust 1, 2018

For a mid-summer Wednesday Workout, we reached out to Craftsbury Green Racing Project head coach Pepa Miloucheva. In addition to sharing a running workout, Miloucheva told us what and who is new to the team based out of Craftsbury, Vermont. “All is good here in Craftsbury, everyone is healthy and training is going well,” she wrote in an email in early July. The nordic team joined last month’s U.S. Ski Team (USST) training camp in...

General News World Cup

Nordic Community Mourns Loss of Skofterud: ‘A Friend Who Lit Up the Room’

FasterSkierJuly 30, 2018

(Note: This article has been updated to include comments from Vidar Løfshus, head of the Norwegian cross-country ski team, and the team’s former performance manager, Åge Skinstad.) The News in English.no. “We had many fun years together on the national team.” Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, a former skier who competed until 2011 and became a national team coach, recalled her “infectious humor”. Erik Røste, president of the Norwegian Ski Federation since 2012, said she was “an important ambassador for...

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Skofterud Found Dead After Jet Ski Accident (Updated)

FasterSkierJuly 29, 2018

Note: This article has been updated to include more detail about Vibeke Skofterud’s accident as well as comments from her partner, Marit Stenshorne. A former member of Norway’s prestigious national ski team and a gold medalist in the 2010 Olympic 4 x 5-kilometer relay, Vibeke Skofterud, 38, was found dead on Sunday morning after a jet ski accident near an island in southern Norway. According to NRK, Skofterud was reported missing around 1 a.m. Sunday morning,...

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Summit Nordic Coach Hannah Taylor Dies in Trail Running Accident (Updated)

FasterSkierJuly 26, 2018

(Update: On Thursday, Aug. 2, the Summit County coroner’s office provided details on what happened to Hannah Taylor on July 21. Those details can be found here.) A Summit Nordic Ski Club coach for the last 14 years, Hannah Taylor, 39, passed away on Saturday after a trail running accident in the Gore Range near Frisco, Colorado. Originally from Hopkinton, N.H., Taylor, who lived in the Frisco area for the better part of the last...

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Lake Placid to France: U.S. Ski Team Camp Photos

FasterSkierJuly 24, 2018

This month, the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team (USST) held dryland camps simultaneously, about 6,000 kilometers away from each other, inSeptember staple on the USST calendar. Meanwhile, four of the team’s men trained together in the picturesque, mountainous region of southeast France from July 9-18. Who was where? In Lake Placid,

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‘The Trailhead’ Grand Opening at Wirth Park

FasterSkierJuly 23, 2018

(Press release) Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Loppet Foundation celebrate opening of The Trailhead in Theodore Wirth Regional Park New facility will serve as a jumping off point for full slate of year-round, world-class outdoor recreation opportunities On Tuesday, July 17, 2018, officials from the Loppet Foundation and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) were joined by a crowd of supporters and Theodore Wirth Regional Park users for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that marked the official...

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NYSEF Rollerski Race Weekend Sept. 15-16

FasterSkierJuly 23, 2018

Press release) RACE WEEKEND WITH A 360-DEGREE PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE ADIRONDACKS, NEW ENGLAND AND CANADA WILMINGTON, NY – The New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF), the New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA) and the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) invite athletes to a rollerski race weekend, September 15-16 in the Adirondacks. We are excited to make this a two-day race series and to take advantage of the Olympic venues in our region. On Saturday,...

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Evan Weiss New Executive Director at BSF

FasterSkierJuly 23, 2018

(Press release) BOZEMAN, Montana — A huge welcome to Evan Weiss, BSF’s new executive director, who started on July 9. Evan has been spending his first days at BSF meeting with BSF’s program directors, board, and staff, and learning the ins and outs of the club’s programs. Rebekah Bunting, president of the BSF board, noted, “Evan is a bright, energetic and well-qualified individual. I look forward to seeing him infuse those qualities in BSF as...

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NENSA’s Coach of 2018: Nathan Alsobrook

FasterSkierJuly 20, 2018

(Press release) NENSA is pleased to announce Nathan Alsobrook of Bowdoin College as the 2018 Coach of the Year. Last winter Alsobrook led the Bowdoin Polar Bears to one of their most successful Carnival seasons – where every weekend either the male or female team placed in the top-six. On individual Carnival days the women’s team placed fourth, four times and the men’s team pulled down two fifth place finishes. These excellent results qualified three...

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NENSA Announces Rollerski Tour with Ludvig Sognen Jensen

FasterSkierJuly 16, 2018

NENSA is very excited to announce that we are bringing Ludvig Sognen Jensen to New England for a week of high visibility rollerski events. Known to some by his social media handle @luddeyo, Jensen is the world’s fastest cross country skier in the new discipline of supersprint racing. His arrival in Boston on August 6th will kick off a week of events across the northeast including a stop at the U16 national camp in Lake...

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Big Thunder Welcomes Back Adam Kates as Head Coach

FasterSkierJuly 16, 2018

Big Thunder Nordic Ski Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Adam Kates as Head Coach effective September 2018. Kates brings extensive experience as a high performance coach and athlete to the role. In addition to achieving some of the highest levels of coaching certification available, Kates played a pivotal role in developing Big Thunder programs and the Lakehead Nordic Team both as Head Coach from 2008 to 2014 and as a skilled volunteer...

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Pink Takes New Meaning for Randall, Recently Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

FasterSkierJuly 12, 2018

On Wednesday, Kikkan Randall went public with the news that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. “Although we caught it early and the prognosis is good, my life will change quite a bit in the coming months,” she wrote on Facebook. (Article continues below) View this post on Instagram The color pink has taken on a new chapter in my life as I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Although we caught it early...

Job Postings

University of Colorado Seeks Assistant Nordic Ski Coach

FasterSkierJuly 10, 2018

Resources Workouts

Wednesday Workout: Russian Intervals with a Canmore Master

FasterSkierJuly 4, 2018

(Note: The following workout was submitted to FasterSkier by ELA climbing guide) or in the Canadian Alpine Journal (CAJ v. 65 (1982), p. 24; 66 (1983), p. 98).) After a sabbatical year in 1979 in distant mountains (the Pyrenees, the Alps, Morocco, and Chile), the remainder of my Winnipeg years were focused on climbing trips: Mexico, Yosemite, the Red Rocks, the Dolomites, Ecuador, Nepal, and, most frequently, the Canadian Rockies. When I retired in 1997,...

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U of Maine at Presque Isle Seeks Head Coach

FasterSkierJune 28, 2018

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