My summer in LP has quickly come to end. Tomorrow I will travel over to Germany for a three week training camp in Ruhpolding and Oberhof. It has been great to spend so much time at home this summer but … Continue reading →
Ships across the ocean.Ships across the sea.Captain, Captain.You can't catch me!Ships Across the Ocean is the favorite game of the summer. After several weeks in the 90F range we have been blessed with some cool weather in Minneapolis which makes...
Today is a well appreciated rest day halfway through our camp with the Swedes and we’re all enjoying the time to relax and recover from a few big days of training in Salen, Sweden. The breakfast buffet, laundry, and some yoga are on the schedule for the morning and then this afternoon we will drive [...]
Below is some footage from our 10k continuous L3 skate. It is mostly rolling up with one longer climb. Great quiet VT backroads.Link to complete vid and nordic channel
Moore, Merrens, Halvorsen: Post-Double-Pole smiles from previous camp.Invite #4. GMVSxc tour de montagne vert3 event finale. Be the king or queen!World Cup Scoring.8/139am Distance Run3pm DP Prologue - event #1 (handicapped from previous personal best)...
Today was our second day in the Torsby Ski Tunnel in Sweden and I’m not sick of it yet! The tunnel is a 1.3km loop which you ski in one direction, then turn and ski it in the other direction, and the entire thing probably takes about 10 minutes. I expected it to be quite [...]
My favorite place on earth is here among the Haag family in Orsa. Ok, maybe being home in Vermont with my own family is pretty high up there too, but this is about as good as it gets. A few pics from our ski today. 3 hour skate tour a...
Holmenkol AG, the German manufacturer of Holmenkol ski wax and tools filed for insolvency protection in the German courts on June 22, 2012 after efforts to find financing to cover outstanding debts failed. The German District Court of Ludwigsburg ordered measures to secure the assets of the company and an insolvency administrator was appointed to transition the company through the process. The US Holmenkol distributors Natron Nordic Enterprises (Nordic) and Sport Thoma (Alpine) are separate...
I’m sitting in the Burlington terminal waiting to start my trans-Atlantic trip to Sweden but currently looking out over the Green Mountains and reflecting on the summer in Vermont. This has been my longest block of training in Craftsbury in quite some time and it was awesome! While I love being on the road there [...]
Is one more FasterSkier blog really necessary? Pretty much. We are pleased to announce the launching of info@fasterskier.com.
This was a great session. We had the entire pipeline from little J4's all the way to a Caldwell, Diggins, Mooney, Newell, Davis, Packer, Hamilton, (plus tons of junior and college top dogs) sprint final!vid footage below, high quailty version and...
Summer has been trucking along ! It seems like just the other day that we started our summer session and now it is almost over........ We have been working hard and have been traveling to camps near and far. Most of the group is back in town and w...
One of the highlights of my summer has been taking a van full of kids from the Boys and Girls Club to Wirth Park for Loppet Adventure Camp. The City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation made this partnership possible. The logistics weren't easy b...
So, Kikkan and I finished up at the Blink Festival and have moved on to a small town outside of Steinkjer, Norway. We are staying with the Lillefjell family, Frode, who was Kikkan's coach a few years back at APU had put us up and has been showing up (a...
Here is the schedule of events:Monday-9am - depart school for distance runswim, lunch, rest3pm - 800m DP Test with speed warmupTuesday-9am - depart for continuous effort bound run workout - 80+ minsswim, lunch, rest3pm - depart for distance classic up ...
Last week was the first of our two Bill Koch League summer day camps and we had 24 kids from all over northern Vermont who joined us for a busy week of ski training and other outdoor fun. It was a great group of kids who were certainly not lacking in enthusiasm or energy! [...]
Last week was a busy one for many members of R.N.R. Margot, Adam, and I headed East to attend the 2nd annual H.U.R.T Nordic Camp while the rest of the crew had an intensity block here at home. The H.U.R.T camp was once again a co...
Coming off a very busy 2011/12 winter season, Mt. Borah Nordic has put the finishing touches on their upcoming season preparations by inking partnership agreements with some of the top Nordic programs in the US and Canada. In addition to working with Maine Winter Sports Center, Rocky Mountain Racers, Far West Nordic and Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy, Mt. Borah has also partnered with the University of Colorado (Nordic / Alpine) and Northern Michigan University....
Here's my first attempt at making a training video which documents some of the workouts and fun we at the MOD squad have undertaken the last few weeks. There's not a lot of material but it's a good start and now that I know that IMovie isn't scary vood...
Kikkan and I are on our annual Scando summer training trip together and this year it has taken us to the Blink rollerski festival in Sandnes, Norway for a week. Yesterday was our first race, an uphill climb called Lysebotn Opp, which we took a 2 ...