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We just finished up our four day mini-camp in Stowe, Vermont. Almost everyone got six separate sessions on snow with a little bit of everything - lots of distance, intervals, time trial, etc. - and we arrived home last night, all appropriately tired f...

By Issy, Mollie, Gino, & CharlieOn the quest for snow, we headed out for Stowe, Vermont on Sunday. The first day we all did a 2 -3 hour easy classic distance ski with the majestic view of the Vermont mountains in our sights and the sun setting dow...

Gorgeous day at SMS! We got a nice 4-5" of snow last night that made for good cover on hard packed trails. Boobs was out early with the groomer and laid down some tracks for classic skiing. We had some kids up on the mountain doing some skate interv...

We had a nice morning up at the Sunbowl with everyone getting out for 45 mins to an 1:30 on skate skis. There's some nice terrain up on the mountain for us to ski without climbing straight up the alpine area and several people on the team checked out ...

Koby on the podium with the win!We had a great weekend up in Farmington, ME for the second Eastern Cups of the year. On Saturday afternoon, we had Katharine, Issy, and Hamish all racing in the open heats (top 30 racers overall). Despite getting knock...

SMS alum/Middlebury freshman Heather Mooney and senior Paddy Caldwell depart with Sverre for Innsbruck, Austria today to compete in the Youth Olympic Games! Paddy & Heather will race 3 times: the 5/10K classic on Tues, Jan 17, a freestyle spri...

Whew! We're back from Craftsbury, VT after our first weekend of Eastern Cup racing and it was a really solid start to the season for the SMS crew. Big thanks to Crafstbury and their staff for working around the clock (literally) to make this race happe...

The J2/J3 group arrived safely back in Vermont this evening, and the J1/OJ + Brooke group arrives home tomorrow evening. We've had a great time in Colorado and have gotten a lot of quality training in. As Sverre mentioned, the older kids headed over ...

Two more productive days under our belt here in Colorado. On Wednesday we did an easy skate ski in the morning and the weather was awesome - it finally warmed up into the double digits! We took Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning off. We're tra...

Another beautiful, but chilly day in Colorado! Temps were in the single digits for most of the day, but we bundled up and headed out for two workouts today. The older kids did their first hard workout of camp (though arguably every workout has been har...

The whole team is back together and we spent the morning classic skiing under beautiful sunny skies at Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby, CO. The younger kids drove down to the lodge, scraped their skis, and headed out, while the older kids skied down from...

We headed to South Londonderry this morning for a combi skate ski and run workout. Though rain was in the forecast, the weather held and we had nice weather for practice. We skied Winhall Hollow & Thompsonberg Roads for 45 minutes to an hour and ...

This morning we did a combi workout - classic rollerski out to the town of Stratton and a run/hike over Stratton Mountain. A few of the girls decided to ski a little longer, instead of running. Everyone enjoyed a nice easy ski after a busy Nationals ...

This morning we did an easy classic ski near school and broke up into small groups for some classic drills. Pictures here are of everyone doing the running drill - going from a run to full-on classic stride and working on getting weight forward and ha...

This morning we did an easy classic ski near school and broke up into small groups for some classic drills. Pictures here are of everyone doing the running drill - going from a run to full-on classic stride and working on getting weight forward and ha...