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Swedish Dala Sports Center Seeks Performance Development Coach

FasterSkierApril 15, 2012

Dala Sports Center in cooperation with the Swedish Ski Federation is looking for a performance development coach for elite level XC skiing and ski orienteering athletes. This position is full-time and the successful candidate will have relevant academic qualifications of at least bachelor level and proven previous experience in coaching at an elite level, preferably in XC skiing and/or ski orienteering. The athletes are predominantly university students at Dalarna University, Falun and Borlänge, Sweden. Falun...

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2012 Fischer Cup Race Series Results

FasterSkierApril 13, 2012

Far West Nordic announces the final results in the 2012 FISCHER CUP Race Series for the Far West Nordic Division. The Fischer Cup is the premier cross country race series in the West, pitting the best overall skiers against each other in a collection of the top Nordic races in California. In spite of the dearth of snow, causing the cancellation of three of the seven Fischer Cup races and the re-scheduling of two of...

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Dyste to Represent Mt. Borah Cycling in MN

FasterSkierApril 13, 2012

Mt. Borah has hired John Dyste to represent the company’s fast growing custom cycling line in the state of Minnesota. Dyste has been with Mt. Borah for the past two years, acting as winter sports sales manager. Under Dyste’s management, Mt. Borah has quickly become the leading custom uniform supplier to high school Nordic and Alpine programs across the continental US, Alaska and Canada. “With John being based out of the Twin Cities market place,...

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Fast & Female…and Classy
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Fast & Female…and Classy

FasterSkierApril 9, 20122

With the Super Tour in our neighborhood last week we got to see some fast skiing!  Craftsbury Outdoor Center hosted the tour finals and closed out the week with a Fast & Female Clinic on Sunday. Several girls in our Mansfield Nordic Club attended Fast and Female and raved about it (see their comments below). But some other interactions with the USA and Canadian women gave insight to their class, beyond their fast skiing. At...

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Recharging the Batteries

FasterSkierApril 8, 2012

The 2012 ski season came to a close with the 50km National Championships in Craftsbury, Vermont.  The organizing committee and hosts, the Craftsbury Outdoor Center did an amazing job making the event happen.  When we arrived in Vermont we wer...

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Toko: Looking Foward
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Toko: Looking Foward

FasterSkierApril 5, 2012

  Looking Foward I just got back from a product development trip (Coreteam meeting) in Switzerland. These were the best meetings that I have ever taken part of as part of this team. Generally we have meetings in November to initiate the next 2-3 years or more products and direction. These meetings involve 15+ countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, US, Austria, France, Italy, Czech, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and then some other countries like England,...

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Rocky Mountain Racers Seeks Assistant Coach
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Rocky Mountain Racers Seeks Assistant Coach

FasterSkierMarch 30, 2012

Rocky Mountain Racers are seeking an assistant coach to work with our high performance cross country and biathlon racing team based out of Canmore and Calgary. The assistant will report to Head Coach John Jaques and work with assistant coach Luke McGurk to deliver the cross country and biathlon training programs. The team is currently comprised of 29 men and women from 14 to 32 years of age. It is not necessary to have experience...

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Progress

FasterSkierMarch 28, 2012

The racing season is now officially over for me and I am back home in Lake Placid.  After over four months on the road, it feels great to be back in my own bed.  All in all I am pleased … Continue reading →

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EurOPA Finals in Italy

FasterSkierMarch 25, 2012

The final few weeks of the ski racing season are mostly racing with not much training.  With 8 races over 16 days the goal is to rest and recover.  Usually we don't get much opportunity to explore the places we travel to for races but with a ...

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Blegh. And maple syrup.

FasterSkierMarch 25, 2012

The briefest of notes about today's 15km CL mass start: woof. I was pretty tired coming into the race after four starts in the last five days, and definitely felt the fatigue in my legs at the start line. Because of yesterday's finish I was seeded 8th ...

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Super Tour Finals – Prologue

FasterSkierMarch 24, 2012

This morning was the 3km prologue of ST Finals in Craftsbury, VT. The organizers here have done an astounding job of preparing this course despite record high temps in the 70s all last week. The weather is starting to turn now and it got just cold enou...

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Canadian Nationals Sprint

FasterSkierMarch 23, 2012

Last week I was in Mont Ste Anne, Quebec for some races at Canadian National Championships. I primarily wanted to focus on the skate sprint as I knew the Canadian National Team guys would be home from Europe and their recent successes and corresponding...

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Winning.

FasterSkierMarch 21, 2012

Dev had a chance to showcase his talents with flare and daring today.Both he and Kaitlin took top honors in the school-wide bump contest ...We're waiting for photos of Fitzy.

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’11/’12 Season Complete!

FasterSkierMarch 19, 2012

After almost four solid months of racing, countless hours of plane rides and european autobahn driving, ten different biathlon venues, ski conditions ranging from pre-season ice to frigid Finnish snow to Ruhpolding slush, and endless cravings for Mexican food, I am finally headed home today! We wrapped up the final week of competitions in Khanty-Mansisysk, [...]

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