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Monday morning is always the start of my training week and today marks the final week of dryland training for the 2009-2010 season. That means there are only 5 rollerski sessions left!divbr //divdivIt has been a great training year and I am really exci...
divIn one week I went from being in East Montpelier, VT to being in Beitostolen, Norway! Here is a bit of a picture book of my last 2 weeks./divdivbr //divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1...
BEITOSTOELEN, Norway (Nov. 15) – The U.S. Cross Country Team wrapped up three days of pre World Cup racing Sunday with even more unexpected success as World Championship silver medalist Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) took fourth and Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) fifth in the women’s 5K and men’s 10K classic FIS races in Norway. “That has to be one of Kikkan’s best longer distance races ever and it really bodes well for the upcoming season and...
WHAT’S NEWbr /br /R D in the ski business is necessary these days. From a strictly business point of view, the competition is not sitting still, so neither can any other company. In the 80’s it was the adoption of synthetic materials and P-Tex bas...
Beitostolen, Norway – The Beitosprinten weekend concludes tomorrow with a 5/10km classic individual start. The field once again includes many of the top World Cup racers. Petter Northug (NOR) winner of today’s 15km freestyle, will try to make it two for two. He will face a stiff challenge from numerous fellow Norwegians, as well as the top Italian and Russian skiers. Kris Freeman, coming off a strong 5th place today makes his 2009/2010 classic debut....
BEITOSTOELEN, Norway (Nov. 14) – The U.S. Cross Country Ski Team is a leg up on the competition scene after competing in two days of FIS races in Norway where Kikkan Randall (Anchorage), Kris Freeman (Andover, NH), Liz Stephen (East Montpelier, VY) and Morgan Arritola (Ketchum, ID) have all had great early season results. “It was a really good start for the year. It was our first competition racing of the season. Our expectations were...
Mother Nature continues to vex me. I wait all year for snow and instead of providing a blizzard of epic proportions where I can wake up to a thick blanket of white stuff, I have to deal with m.n. putting just enough snow on the ground to make it ...
Mother Nature continues to vex me. I wait all year for snow and instead of providing a blizzard of epic proportions where I can wake up to a thick blanket of white stuff, I have to deal with m.n. putting just enough snow on the ground to make it ...
This morning we started our day with a long OD run in ideal running weather, 40 and rain. We had three groups go from 1.5-3 hours on the sweet trail network behind Stratton Mountain. It's really nice to have hours of runnable trails within 5 min of c...
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After several years of tense waiting for the snow to arrive in West Yellowstone, this year is shaping up to be stress-free. Significant snow has fallen, and trails in town are open and groomed.
Chris Cook Interview at Soldier Hollow from Andrew Johnson on Vimeo. The first, of a potentially weekly, segment featuring Wisconsin fashion and football insights.
Chris Cook Interview at Soldier Hollow from Andrew Johnson on Vimeo. The first, of a potentially weekly, segment featuring Wisconsin fashion and football insights.
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Think about your skis.br /br /The new Mantec Grinder at Nordic Ultratune has several noteworthy features. Here's a video clip featuring the ski path control mechanisms and also the conformal drive pressure.br /br /div style="text-align: center;"object ...
In 1980, Americans went wild over “The Miracle on Ice” when the underdog U.S. hockey team upset the heavily favored Soviets and then Finland at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Among the thousands of athletes from around the world who competed that year was Glenn Jobe, an Olympic athlete from the University of Nevada, Reno and a member of the Wolf Pack’s ski team. But now, the ski team that produced Jobe and...
Christa Case Bryant takes a close look at both sides of the Women’s Olympic Ski Jumping Issue. Her article does an excellent job of synthesizing the arguments, and clarifying the issues. The recent article on FasterSkier announcing yesterday’s court appeal generated a number of comments, and questions. This article should answer a number of those. Unless a Canadian court decides otherwise, the ski jumper with the longest flight on record at Vancouver’s Olympic facility will...
The New Year's Blast Information and Registration Form is available on the Biathlon page of the a href="http://mvnordic.com/team" target="_blank"Methow Valley Nordic Team website/a. br /br /You can also download the form directly:br /a href="http://mvn...