Read about Bridger's smart and gutsy day, click on the J1 Blog under the links listed on the right. Yeah B! Nice racin'!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4680416899705879324-4391...
On Thursday, January 28th, the first race of U.S. Masters National Championships was held at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. The 10 kilometer skate race will be followed by Saturday’s 50K classic Craftsbury Marathon. 35 women and 129 men contested the overall win. As predicted, the men’s race came down to a battle between M1 racers Eli Enman (Huntington, VT) and Jesse Downs (Jericho, VT). Enman prevailed for the overall win in...
Methow Valley Nordic Team is pleased to offer a second Holiday Ski Camp for 6-11 year olds February 16, 17, and 18th. We will ski from 2-5 each day. Registration Deadline is February 10,so sign up now! Download registration form here.
Methow Valley Nordic Team is pleased to offer a second Holiday Ski Camp for 6-11 year olds February 16, 17, and 18th. We will ski from 2-5 each day. Registration Deadline is February 10,so sign up now! Download registration form here.
Breaking through for the first time in what seems like weeks, the sun graced the athletes in Torsby, Sweden for the second day of opening competition. br /br /With strong anticipation of her first international start, Andrea Mayo led the U.S. Women wi...
I met Dan Bulkley when he was 53 years old. I was dating his daughter and we were both teaching skiing at Mt Ashland in southern Oregon. Dan was the track and cross country running coach at Southern Oregon College and he was director of the PE ski prog...
PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 28) – A final skier has been added to the 2010 Olympic Cross Country Ski Team. Simi Hamilton (Aspen, CO), a former All American from Middlebury College, was announced Thursday after the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association received an 11th and final quota spot. Two athletes were named Tuesday in addition to the original eight announced last week. Hamilton, who is now training with coaches Travis Jones and Rick Kapala in...
Photos from today’s 10/15km individual start classic at the U23 World Championships in Hinterzarten, Germany. Brittany Webster (CAN) posted the top North American finish placing 5th. Men’s 15km Race Report Don’t forget to check out the FasterSkier
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After Tuesday’s sprint I was riding a pretty good high but that kind of fell apart today after a not so hot 10km classic race. The 3 lap course was insanely hard with huge climbs and fast downhills and I felt very flat. My tempo was low and my body felt heavy. [...]
I thought it was kind of interesting that the New York Times had an article on cross country skiing and Olympian Andy Newell. a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/fashion/28fitness.html"ARTICLE/abr /br /That led me to a href="http://andrewnewell.squarespace.com/"Newell's website/a, which has some pretty entertaining videos, a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rdz7sSnjWY"like this/abr /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8rdz7sSnjWYhl=en_USfs=1rel=0color1=0x006699color2=0x54abd6"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8rdz7sSnjWYhl=en_USfs=1rel=0color1=0x006699color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-4554254160060284207?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
div align="left"We skied at Wild Wings in Peru this morning. If you are looking for someplace to ski, the tracks there are wonderful. Thanks Chuck for all you do. We really appreciate it.br /br //divimg id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431855655684273442" style="...
Jan. 30, 2010 Registration still open! $5,000 in total purse money for 30km Skate Races for adults, kids & BBQ make this a day for racers and spectators Participate or spectate – the 23rd Annual Governor’s Cup returns to Devil’s Thumb Ranch on Sat., Jan. 30, 2010, for an action-packed and fun-filled day of competitive ski racing, kids ski races, awards post-race activities including a BBQ and live music in the historic Broad Axe Barn....
CANMORE, Alta.—Canada will send four more cross-country skiers to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, bringing the team’s total size to 15, thanks to additional spots allocated to the Canadians by FIS, Cross Country Canada announced on Wednesday. Drew Goldsack, of Red Deer, Alta., Calgary’s Brent McMurtry, Gordon Jewett, of Canmore, Alta., and Brittany Webster, of Caledon, Ont., who all met Cross Country Canada’s Olympic criteria for nomination to the Olympic Team in December, had their...
National Masters’ 10k FS – As noted yesterday, tomorrow’s 10k FS will be run on the virtually the same course as has been planned all winter, with the one exception of the Race Loop bypass at the end. The course will stay on the traditional finish of Ruthie’s rather than cutting west to pass right next to the Road. Waves will be as advertised for tomorrow’s 10k Freestyle. Watch the website later in the day...
sorry about the lack of updates lately… my computer decided it was time to die and it now needs a new hard drive. So I have been computer-less for the last several days. And it looks like I will be for a little while longer also. Anyways, last weekend the super tour races [...]
Once again FasterSkier’s Nat Herz is able to bring you the feel of today’s World Junior Championship action.
Sign up by Sunday and save $5 The cross-country skiing has been great in West Yellowstone and we are looking forward to the second half of our season. The highlight is always the Yellowstone Rendezvous Race. There is still plenty of time to register and train for this marathon event held on March 6, 2010 at the Rendezvous Ski Trails. Challenge yourself against the clock and hundreds of other Nordic enthusiasts on the fifty and...
Sorry for the delay in the blog post; the internet at our hotel has been down for a couple of days. We arrived in Hinterzarten, Germany a week ago to race in the World Junior Championships. Hinterzarten is a really nice small town in the Black Forest. ...