My dryland season job this year is perhaps the best I've had yet: junior coach. Three days a week I get to spend a few hours training with the Methow's up and coming teenage athletes as we run and rollerski and bag peaks in the North Cascades. This pas...
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It's hard to believe that June has come and is nearly gone already. Highlights from the past 30 days include skiing on Eagle glacier, coaching the Junior athletes at the Girdwood "Death" Camp, racing up Bird Ridge, and ski-touring above Prince William Sound. The name of the game up at the Thomas training facility on Eagle was: eat, ski, eat, sleep, eat, ski, eat, sleep, repeat. For those of you
It's hard to believe that June has come and is nearly gone already. Highlights from the past 30 days include skiing on Eagle glacier, coaching the Junior athletes at the Girdwood "Death" Camp, racing up Bird Ridge, and ski-touring above Prince William Sound. The name of the game up at the Thomas training facility on Eagle was: eat, ski, eat, sleep, eat, ski, eat, sleep, repeat. For those of you
a href="http://web.me.com/brorabaugh/iWeb/Becca%27s%20site/Blog/F1F6AC55-A35E-49EB-9734-89FD7604D9F1_files/IMG_3682.jpg"img src="http://web.me.com/brorabaugh/iWeb/Becca%27s%20site/Blog/Images/IMG_3682.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:130px; height:130px;"//aWell, I have been nefariously bad at blogging this summer, but I am trying for the grand comeback here now. Since my last blog post way too many things have happened for me to fully fill you in, but I will touch on the basics. As the photos above illustrate, I had a few hiking and crust skiing adv
Well we got no choice, All the girls and boys, Makin all that noise, 'Cause they found new toys, Well we can't salute ya, Can't find a flag, If that don't suit ya, Thats a drag. School's out for summer, School's out forever, Schools been blown to piece...
Well we got no choice, All the girls and boys, Makin all that noise, 'Cause they found new toys, Well we can't salute ya, Can't find a flag, If that don't suit ya, Thats a drag. School's out for summer, School's out forever, Schools been blown to piece...
Well we got no choice, All the girls and boys, Makin all that noise, 'Cause they found new toys, Well we can't salute ya, Can't find a flag, If that don't suit ya, Thats a drag. School's out for summer, School's out forever, Schools been blown to piece...
Well we got no choice, All the girls and boys, Makin all that noise, 'Cause they found new toys, Well we can't salute ya, Can't find a flag, If that don't suit ya, Thats a drag. School's out for summer, School's out forever, Schools been blown to piece...
I know I haven’t updated for a while… but sometimes I just feel like a broken record! I’m recovering well from my surgery, and I have another one coming up. So here is the quick shake-down: My right leg is healing up very nicely, so on July 1st I will be going back [...]
I know I haven’t updated for a while… but sometimes I just feel like a broken record! I’m recovering well from my surgery, and I have another one coming up. So here is the quick shake-down: My right leg is healing up very nicely, so on July 1st I will be going back [...]
I know I haven’t updated for a while… but sometimes I just feel like a broken record! I’m recovering well from my surgery, and I have another one coming up. So here is the quick shake-down: My right leg is healing up very nicely, so on July 1st I will be going back [...]
2010 Olympian Garrott Kuzzy starting the relayJune 23rd is Olympic Day in celebration of the birth of the modern Olympics. The LCO Boys and Girls Club celebrated the day with 2010 Olympian Garrott Kuzzy and several members of CXC Team Vertical Limit....
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During the summer there are more hours for training, barbecues and lawn games. And without the seemingly endless string of races to cover, we have more time to explore interesting stories. We are always looking for tips and ideas, and while we can’t promise to follow up on everything, we will certainly do our best – whether it is a profile on an impressive local athlete, a redesigned trail system, or a controversial move to...
New York’s Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has received $5.6 million in funding in a budget measure that passed in the New York state assembly on Friday and the state senate on Monday. ORDA manages Mount Van Hoevenberg, the site of the cross country, biathlon and nordic combined events during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid NY, and the other legacy venues from those Games. The appropriation is about 16 percent of ORDA’s approximately...
Olympic gold medalist Claudia Nystad has announced she has stepped down from professional cross-country skiing. Nystad’s career marked a very succesful period for the German Ski Association, as she captured not only five Olympic medals but also five from World Championships. Eventually, the 32-year-old felt her triumph at the Olympic Games in Vancouver turn into another sensation. “The Games in Vancouver were a highlight of my career,” said Claudia Nystad. “I’ve been thinking a lot...
Sadie Bjornsen, a new member of Alaska Pacific University’s ski team, gave this firsthand account towards the end of the recently-completed National Training Group camp in Utah. This post originally appeared on her blog,
We had an absolutely gorgeous "Learn to Rollerski" day this past weekend. An all-star cast of NENSA, Mad River Valley Bill Koch League, and GMVS teamed up to host the day right! Music, tons of V2 rollerskis, a tent for some shade (thanks NENSA), kid...