The last week of the Games have begun. With wonderful weather again there were three events decided in the Whistler Nordic Park today. The jumpers competed in the team jump (on the big jump). In the cross-country stadium next door was the team sprint in the free technique (skating) in the men’s and ladies. There have been some interesting results which are in contrast to the previous season so far. For example, the German ladies...
I was all set to do one of the classic legs in tomorrow's relay. Then I woke up this morning with the beginnings of a little cold so it looks like I wasn't meant to represent the US in an Olympic relay... Pretty disappointed. Now I get to do everything I can to be ready for the 50k.
I’m headed to Sweden to ski race! I have dreamed of doing a big Scandinavian race for years, with the Swedish Vasaloppet or the Norwegian Birkebeiner at the top of my wish list. This year’s Masters World Cup (MWC) seems the perfect fit. The MWC is in Falun, Sweden, and wraps up just as the Vasa week begins. My wife, Stefani, and I will head to Falun, race three times at the MWC, and wrap...
It was a an thrilling day in the team sprint with crashes, broken poles and most of all fast ski racing. Here are a few photos from the semis with more to come.
Many people have been asking me why I didn’t go out to Wisconsin with the rest of the team. The answer is pretty simple: doing the Birkie just didn’t interest me that much. As a competitive skier in the United States that statement sounds like heresy but it’s just how I felt. I’ll do it [...]
What a day for America! Bode Miller won the Men’s Alpine Combined. What a great story the Olympics write. After Bode was no longer in the National team last year, he was allowed to return only on condition of coming into the team if he is completely at the service of the team and really part of the team. This he has done and has been rewarded now even with a complete set of medals....
After the race yesterday I hustled back here for a massage and then went to town to spend the night out of the village with my family. A great break and my first real time spent up in Whistler since I got here. It's a whole other world up there. Our existence is pretty mellow and uneventful. Outside of skiing, eating and sleeping most of our time is spent in the dining hall or resting/relaxing. Up there it was just really busy and packed. Pretty fun to see but I was ready to get back in the cocoon of the village.
Yesterdays race was much better than the first unfortunately it just took a while to fell like myself. Rather than ski relaxed in the pack and pick up places when it made sense and wouldn't take too much energy I started out skiing way too tight and tried to force my way up. Wasting a lot of energy and I ended up further back as a result. A group of 4 of us started skiing together 4k from the ski change but then I took a digger with 1-2k from the exchange. Once I started skating I started to feel better and better and found another group of 3 to ski with. I felt like they were going a little slower than I would like but I needed a little rest after skiing on my own for quite a while. On the second of 4 skating laps I made a little gap on the group over the only steep climb on the course but they caught back up to me on the flats a few minutes later. I tried again on the same climb on the third lap with the same result. Finally on the last lap I did the same thing and got away from them and tried unsuccessfully to bridge up to the next group. Not the result I was hoping for but I felt better as the race went on which is a good sign for the races to come. The 4x10k relay on the 24th and the 50k classic on the 28th.
After the race yesterday I hustled back here for a massage and then went to town to spend the night out of the village with my family. A great break and my first real time spent up in Whistler since I got here. It's a whole other world up there. Our existence is pretty mellow and uneventful. Outside of skiing, eating and sleeping most of our time is spent in the dining hall or resting/relaxing. Up there it was just really busy and packed. Pretty fun to see but I was ready to get back in the cocoon of the village.
Yesterdays race was much better than the first unfortunately it just took a while to fell like myself. Rather than ski relaxed in the pack and pick up places when it made sense and wouldn't take too much energy I started out skiing way too tight and tried to force my way up. Wasting a lot of energy and I ended up further back as a result. A group of 4 of us started skiing together 4k from the ski change but then I took a digger with 1-2k from the exchange. Once I started skating I started to feel better and better and found another group of 3 to ski with. I felt like they were going a little slower than I would like but I needed a little rest after skiing on my own for quite a while. On the second of 4 skating laps I made a little gap on the group over the only steep climb on the course but they caught back up to me on the flats a few minutes later. I tried again on the same climb on the third lap with the same result. Finally on the last lap I did the same thing and got away from them and tried unsuccessfully to bridge up to the next group. Not the result I was hoping for but I felt better as the race went on which is a good sign for the races to come. The 4x10k relay on the 24th and the 50k classic on the 28th.
After the race yesterday I hustled back here for a massage and then went to town to spend the night out of the village with my family. A great break and my first real time spent up in Whistler since I got here. It's a whole other world up there. Our existence is pretty mellow and uneventful. Outside of skiing, eating and sleeping most of our time is spent in the dining hall or resting/relaxing. Up there it was just really busy and packed. Pretty fun to see but I was ready to get back in the cocoon of the village.
Yesterdays race was much better than the first unfortunately it just took a while to fell like myself. Rather than ski relaxed in the pack and pick up places when it made sense and wouldn't take too much energy I started out skiing way too tight and tried to force my way up. Wasting a lot of energy and I ended up further back as a result. A group of 4 of us started skiing together 4k from the ski change but then I took a digger with 1-2k from the exchange. Once I started skating I started to feel better and better and found another group of 3 to ski with. I felt like they were going a little slower than I would like but I needed a little rest after skiing on my own for quite a while. On the second of 4 skating laps I made a little gap on the group over the only steep climb on the course but they caught back up to me on the flats a few minutes later. I tried again on the same climb on the third lap with the same result. Finally on the last lap I did the same thing and got away from them and tried unsuccessfully to bridge up to the next group. Not the result I was hoping for but I felt better as the race went on which is a good sign for the races to come. The 4x10k relay on the 24th and the 50k classic on the 28th.
After the race yesterday I hustled back here for a massage and then went to town to spend the night out of the village with my family. A great break and my first real time spent up in Whistler since I got here. It's a whole other world up there. Our existence is pretty mellow and uneventful. Outside of skiing, eating and sleeping most of our time is spent in the dining hall or resting/relaxing. Up there it was just really busy and packed. Pretty fun to see but I was ready to get back in the cocoon of the village.Yesterdays race was much better than the first unfortunately it just took a while to fell like myself. Rather than ski relaxed in the pack and pick up places when it made sense and wouldn't take too much energy I started out skiing way too tight and tried to force my way up. Wasting a lot of energy and I ended up further back as a result. A group of 4 of us started skiing together 4k from the ski change but then I took a digger with 1-2k from the exchange. Once I started skating I started to feel better and better and found another group of 3 to ski with. I felt like they were going a little slower than I would like but I needed a little rest after skiing on my own for quite a while. On the second of 4 skating laps I made a little gap on the group over the only steep climb on the course but they caught back up to me on the flats a few minutes later. I tried again on the same climb on the third lap with the same result. Finally on the last lap I did the same thing and got away from them and tried unsuccessfully to bridge up to the next group. Not the result I was hoping for but I felt better as the race went on which is a good sign for the races to come. The 4x10k relay on the 24th and the 50k classic on the 28th.
Whistler, British Columbia – Magdalena Neuner (GER) claimed her second gold of the Olympics, overcoming two penalties to stage a come-from-behind win over Olga Zaitseva (RUS) and teammate Simone Hauswald. Neuner, with a miss on each the first prone stage and the first standing stage, cleaned during the last shooting round, shooting quickly, and left the range just 7 seconds behind Zaitseva. After three shooting stages, Russia controlled the race, with Olga Medvedtseva joining Zaitseva...
One of the most exciting and anticipated cross country races in the Games just ended. The 30 km Men’s Pursuit race which involves 15 km in the classical technique followed by 15 km in the skating technique to see who is the most complete cross country skier racer. This is a mass start race with a running clock during the transition. With similar weather conditions to yesterday, the Swede Johan Olsson came out of the...
HOUGHTON, Mich—Michigan Tech’s Oskar Lund and Northern Michigan’s Laura DeWitt were the individual winners on day 1 of the NCAA’s Central Regional Championship on Saturday. The 5/10 kilometer classic race was held at Michigan Tech’s trails in Houghton, Michigan as part of the CCSA’s final NCAA qualifying weekend. The Northern Michigan women and men were each in first place as a team after the first day of competition. A sweep of the women’s podium put...
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This past weekend we raced only a single sprint, in Monguelfo, ITA. The format was quite interesting; the morning qualifier was held up the Gsieser Tal (valley) about 20km from Monguelfo on an off-camber farmer's field, while the heats were to be held ...
div style="text-align: left;"We just returned from probably the most exciting race I have ever skied. Friday was the City Sprint in the middle of a little town named Monguelfo, in Italy. At ten in the morning we raced our qualifier about an hour's driv...