FasterSkier will be in Las Vegas from July 3 to July 6 for the Petter Northug-Marcus Hellner poker showdown and rollerski race. The pair will face off in a head-to-head poker matchup on the fourth of July, play their first day of the World Series of Poker on July 5, and then compete in the rollerski race on July 6. FasterSkier has reserved a double room at the
Summer is here finally! It was hot and humid for our first time trial of the new season. Most of the biathlon and x-c crews are up in the County working hard so we brought everyone together for a 5.5km and 11km skate time trial. We do this on the ro...
Summer is here finally! It was hot and humid for our first time trial of the new season. Most of the biathlon and x-c crews are up in the County working hard so we brought everyone together for a 5.5km and 11km skate time trial. We do this on the ro...
Summer is here finally! It was hot and humid for our first time trial of the new season. Most of the biathlon and x-c crews are up in the County working hard so we brought everyone together for a 5.5km and 11km skate time trial. We do this on the ro...
Summer is here finally! It was hot and humid for our first time trial of the new season. Most of the biathlon and x-c crews are up in the County working hard so we brought everyone together for a 5.5km and 11km skate time trial. We do this on the ro...
I was beginning to wonder if summer was ever going to arrive here in Sun Valley. It has been a long, cold spring. This past week felt more like summer and it looks as if more sun is just around the corner...just in time for summer solstice, tomorrow!...
I was beginning to wonder if summer was ever going to arrive here in Sun Valley. It has been a long, cold spring. This past week felt more like summer and it looks as if more sun is just around the corner...just in time for summer solstice, tomorrow!...
I was beginning to wonder if summer was ever going to arrive here in Sun Valley. It has been a long, cold spring. This past week felt more like summer and it looks as if more sun is just around the corner...just in time for summer solstice, tomorrow!...
I was beginning to wonder if summer was ever going to arrive here in Sun Valley. It has been a long, cold spring. This past week felt more like summer and it looks as if more sun is just around the corner...just in time for summer solstice, tomorrow!...
CXC Team Vertical Limit had a great training camp in Marine on St. Croix, MN. The old mill town was quiet and peaceful allowing us to get our work done. Roller skiing, running, biking and weight lifting were the names of the games.2010 CXC Team Vertic...
I’ve been back in Craftsbury for almost two weeks now, and let me tell you, its nice to be done with classes and back to the “real world”. Haha, I’m laughing as I write that since I realize that this not at all the real world by most people’s standards. But it does feel good [...]
All the photos I took of hill-bouncing today are about to be rendered completely archaic, because, Pepa and Sheldon tell me, video of the workout is about to “go viral”. Oh goody! Everyone can see how tired I am at the end of each interval and how I’m barely making any forward progress at all! But, [...]
There are many reasons people decide to hike parts of or all of the Appalachian Trail. I met people that were out to prove they were physically capable of the challenge, others that decided to thru-hike now because they couldn’t find a job, and at least one that was hiking to lose weight for an [...]
The University of Maine Presque Isle is seeking applications for the position of Head Coach of the Nordic Ski Program. Applicants should possess previous Nordic coaching and development experience. Applicants should also have a demonstrated record of program development with substantial emphasis on student recruitment and the building of community connections to a Nordic ski program. We are looking for the person who is inspired by the opportunity to make a difference as a part...
I'm fortunate this summer to be working with the Methow Valley Junior Nordic Team as summer head coach. It's been a great way to stay involved with the program that developed Brian Gregg, Sadie and Erik Bjornsen, me and many other top skiers throughout...
This may be my favorite training period of the year. Putting in back-to-back 18 to 20 hour weeks with the workouts all staying in a level 1 and 2 intensity, using many different modalities and spending hour after hour in the Methow spring landscape. Mo...
pI have not had so hectic a schedule in a very long time. It’s been non-stop since the ski season ended with no real end in sight. Most springs are busy since things tend to fall to the wayside during the winter race season and I then try to get caught up, but never as bad as this. At least I’d been feeling the best this spring than I have since I started training again three years ago (Ahvo had said that it would take me four years to get back into shape and he sure was right!), but it's finally catching up to me and I’m just frazzled. I just tried to fill in my training log and it was really tough. I hadn’t written in it in over three weeks! I can hardly remember what I did yesterday let alone three weeks ago. My heart rate monitor records my workouts so that helps a bit but that only goes so far. So if I happened to do a workout with you any time from mid-May until now, please let me know what we did! My monitor only holds the last 14 workouts and then starts overwriting the oldest one so I had even stopped wearing it the last few days because I was afraid I’d overwrite my oldest workouts, which of course would be the hardest to remember. I still don’t have a training plan worked out so I just kind of wing it every day. Something has got to give soon or my brain is going to come to a screeching halt. So that is my excuse for lack of posts. And here it is almost mid-night again and I’m still not in bed. (Maybe at least Nate will stop hinting that I need to post something.)/p pAfter several hints from various people that it’s time for another Brew-Ski (my homebrewed beer party), I finally scheduled it for the first weekend I had free only to realize later that it was the same day as Grandma’s Marathon. So I moved it to the following weekend only to realize that is the weekend of the City of Lakes Tri-Loppet. Criminy. Who can keep track of all this stuff? Ah well, I guess that’s just the way it is when you hang out with a bunch of athletes. There’s always some race going on. I guess I’ll just have to have another party soon, if I can find a spare weekend to have it and time to write an invite that is!/p div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-4989158830896750308?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Summer skiing east of McClure Bay in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
It seems hard to believe it, but we’re already finishing up our 4th week of summer training. Here are some photos: The group is going strong, as we get ready for the best 8 weeks of summer training
