In the 15 km Pursuit Women’s Cross-country competition, Marit Björgen of Norway was able to repeat her Olympic victory in the sprint. She had received super material “under her feet” from her serviceman Perry Olsson. There is an interesting story. Perry is responsible not only Marit but also for the skis of superstar Petter Northug. After Marit had won bronze in the first race the Norwegian media expected a victory from Petter in the afternoon....
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MVNT hosted another successful ski camp for 6-11 year olds this week. Thirteen kiddos, mostly from the 'west side', classic skied at Chickadee and on the Community Trail, with able coaching from MVNT coaches and ski team members. Beautiful weather an...
MVNT hosted another successful ski camp for 6-11 year olds this week. Thirteen kiddos, mostly from the 'west side', classic skied at Chickadee and on the Community Trail, with able coaching from MVNT coaches and ski team members. Beautiful weather an...
MVNT hosted another successful ski camp for 6-11 year olds this week. Thirteen kiddos, mostly from the 'west side', classic skied at Chickadee and on the Community Trail, with able coaching from MVNT coaches and ski team members. Beautiful weather an...
MVNT hosted another successful ski camp for 6-11 year olds this week. Thirteen kiddos, mostly from the 'west side', classic skied at Chickadee and on the Community Trail, with able coaching from MVNT coaches and ski team members. Beautiful weather an...
All I will say about the first race was a little bit of a bummer but tomorrow is the first of the races that I have been eyeing for a year, the 30k Pursuit. Tested some new skis this morning and did a hard lap around the course feeling good. It's pretty nice to stop by the Atomic trailer every couple days and pick up some new board that are better than the rest of my fleet.
I just finished watching the ladies go and while mens and womens races tend to play out very differently it was good to see where gaps were formed and time was gained and lost. For all those young racers out there take a lesson from the sprint for 3rd. Get your toe across first and not your head.
After a rough start weather wise it has been absolutely gorgeous here and the course has firmed up. Looks like it will be pretty warm for tomorrow's race, mid to upper 40's.
Annie, Hazel and my parents got to town last night and I'm pretty psyched to see the family. In environments as big and crazy as the Olympics little bit of home are so refreshing.
Yesterday everything went smoothly both in terms of the conditions for the racers as well as the weather. Those who followed the Olympics on TV, saw that we were treated to a radiantly beautiful winter day. The combination of the Alpine women’s competition was held under ideal conditions. Fortunately, the Rennläuferinnen were spared from bad falls this time. It is noteworthy to mention that Anja Persson, who had a bad fall yesterday on the descent,...
It took an early start to make it to the Outdoor Center at Sugarloaf by 8:30. Up at 3:45 to make time for coffee, stretching, and a good breakfast of eggs and potatoes. Out the door by 6:00 – hightailing it from near Ellsworth – I made good time until I got behind a Québecois tractor trailer and worried I was lost. Not true – I struggled to keep up all along Routes 16 and...
I've been meaning to post race reports all winter long but just haven't had the time. I'll try to recap them as I find the time since each race has taught me something. My main goals for this year were to feel good and have fun and not worry about how fast I was going. I've been having a great season in stark contrast to last year and have accomplished all those goals. I've felt great, been having a great time, and the less I worry about results they better they are. I think several things have helped me have a better season this year. Last year was a difficult year for me personally and I wasn't sleeping well because I was stressed. I think I just tried to push myself harder than my body could recover properly from with the other stresses and lack of sleep. I just got more and more worn down and felt worse and worse. This year I've managed my stress levels much better and have made sure that I didn't continue to push myself if I was tired or feeling overwhelmed by life. I've really tried to monitor my sleep, which is a good barometer of my stress levels, and take it easy if I needed to. This made my hard workouts more productive and I was able to slowly get stronger and faster. It really drove home that feeling like an easy workout really was easy, too easy even, was a good thing and that allowed hard workouts to feel good too as a result. In essence I relearned to pace my workouts appropriately. I used to be really good at pacing in races and I think I've relearned that as well. I've stopped worrying about how fast my competitors were going and just skied my own race. I can only ski how fast I can ski, so pushing myself too hard to keep up with others is counter-productive. If I can keep up with them I can, and if I can't I can't. It really is that simple. So I've just listened to my body, focused on what I could do that particular day, not worried about what I can't do, and enjoyed being out there. And what a difference it's made.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-653759851621405698?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
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The changeable weather stayed constant yesterday. Once the weather gods saw off the Men’s Downhill yesterday, it snowed half the night until about 10 clock this morning. Flakes the size of coins! The Mens Combined was postponed until tomorrow. The weather forecasters say that starting tomorrow there will be a period of sunshine. So tomorrow is looking good for Alpine ski racing fans. Today the Alpine track was completely soaked from top to bottom. It...
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