3rd Place in the 10k Classic SuperTour and my best FIS points ever (44.11)After a great start to the race season, plus an engagement, My CXC Teamates and I have stayed in West Yellowstone, MT for a week of solid training. It has been a tough, but good...
3rd Place in the 10k Classic SuperTour and my best FIS points ever (44.11)After a great start to the race season, plus an engagement, My CXC Teamates and I have stayed in West Yellowstone, MT for a week of solid training. It has been a tough, but good...
3rd Place in the 10k Classic SuperTour and my best FIS points ever (44.11)After a great start to the race season, plus an engagement, My CXC Teamates and I have stayed in West Yellowstone, MT for a week of solid training. It has been a tough, but good...
In early November, when I was able to start training again after taking a month plus off due to mono, Scott and I had a long discussion (over email, as he was already in Norway with Torin) about how best to proceed with getting me back to race shape. I...
Chris Hall, director of US Racing Services for Swix states, “Waxing for the West Yellowstone USSA SuperTour events was straightforward but not West Yellowstone normal. As we do for each race we tested a matrix of CH, LF, and HF base gliders based on temp and humidity. Once we had chosen the base wax we re-waxed and zeroed the test skis with the chosen base and tested if Cera-F over-layers increased the speed. A final...
here for the wax clinic schedule. here for more information on how the wax tips are created. If we do not have solid information on an event (including weather, current conditions, expected time of grooming, how many loops, start time of course, etc), we will either not submit anything or we will delay submission of the wax tip. For this reason, sometimes information on a race will not be sent out in the eBlast that...
The Yellowstone Ski Festival means many things to many people. The five-day cross-country ski festival can be a time to brush off the storage wax and ski for the first time each season. It can be a chance for professional racers to earn valuable points towards the World Cup. It can be an opportunity to demo new gear before the holiday season. It can be a new Thanksgiving tradition for you and yours. The Yellowstone...
Just a quick update before the first World Cup here in Ostersund, Sweden tomorrow. If you have been following any of the news about the first World Cup, you have surely read a lot about the parasite problem with the drinking water. Unfortunately, like many of the athletes who trained here prior to the World [...]
See Also: “If An Isolated Population of Scandinavians Fall Victim to a Third World Parasite And No One Is Around To Hear Their Communal Stomachs Groan, Does Anyone Care?” *Warning: I apologize for the following verbose and flowery language. It is mostly employed as a means to amuse myself and has absolutely no place in [...]
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Calgary, Alberta – With the onset of winter, Fast and Female is preparing to host its third Annual US X-Country Ski Festival. After being held for two consecutive years in Anchorage, Alaska, the 2011 Annual US X-Country Ski Festival will travel to Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine and take place on Sunday, January 9. On this special occasion, more than 150 female cross-country skiers and biathletes between the ages of 9 to 19 years old...
Greetings from Central Finland (where the temp was a balmy -25C upon waking up this morning)! The sun has set on the Nordic Opening and everyone has packed their bags and headed either to the next races or homeward. As a final wrap-up, the weekend was packed with lots of action. The Nordic Opening is one of the only places where you can see Nordic skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined all in one weekend...
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divThe SMS Nordic team is always trying to decide what workouts we want to do. There are so many great ones to choose from but we can't pick them all and come up with a program that makes sense. There are some key components to any Nordic training pr...