Fischer’s new Carbonlite Skating S-Track ski is a new addition to the Carbonlite skating line this year. With Carbonlite construction and RCS camber characteristics, the S-Track has the best qualities from both of Fischer’s racing skate lines. All 3 Fischer Carbonlite Skating skis, The Hole Ski, the Carbonlite Skating and the Carbonlite Skating S-Track will be available for demo beginning in November at the West Yellowstone Fall Camp. Come ski each pair and feel the...
The Lake Placid Camp at the Olympic Training Center concluded Wednesday with the annual Climb to the Castle time trial. Anyone who has done it, knows how grueling and tough this race is! It is a five-mile climb up the Whiteface Mountain toll road and...
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check out this article in the Hastings Star Gazette
divdivdivdivIt might be obvious that I love cross country skiing and playing tag on the playground because I do those things a lot. One of my less known passions is climbing. When I was in Junior High I used to climb 1-3 hours every day. I have drifted...
I had a fabulous interval session the other day. It was hard, but enjoyably hard, what we call threshold. When I do threshold I get to stretch out the body and use proper race technique but stay out of the lungs-on-fire pain zone. Threshold is the inte...
I had a fabulous interval session the other day. It was hard, but enjoyably hard, what we call threshold. When I do threshold I get to stretch out the body and use proper race technique but stay out of the lungs-on-fire pain zone. Threshold is the inte...
I had a fabulous interval session the other day. It was hard, but enjoyably hard, what we call threshold. When I do threshold I get to stretch out the body and use proper race technique but stay out of the lungs-on-fire pain zone. Threshold is the inte...
I had a fabulous interval session the other day. It was hard, but enjoyably hard, what we call threshold. When I do threshold I get to stretch out the body and use proper race technique but stay out of the lungs-on-fire pain zone. Threshold is the inte...
I had a fabulous interval session the other day. It was hard, but enjoyably hard, what we call threshold. When I do threshold I get to stretch out the body and use proper race technique but stay out of the lungs-on-fire pain zone. Threshold is the inte...
I had a fabulous interval session the other day. It was hard, but enjoyably hard, what we call threshold. When I do threshold I get to stretch out the body and use proper race technique but stay out of the lungs-on-fire pain zone. Threshold is the inte...
Looking for early snow? Head to Lapland… Cross-country skiing is already possible at many travel resorts in Finnish Lapland. The season opened unusually early this year with heavy snowfall late Wednesday night. At the Levi resort in the area of Kittilä, 19 kilometers of tracks were available by Friday, at Luosto in Sodankylä there were 18 and at Saariselkä in Inari 16 kilometers of marked cross-country ski routes. Other resorts reported shorter tracks open. Source:...
RaceMyRace also includes a number of major US running marathons. It isn’t quite the real thing, but certainly fun to play with. It is easy to imagine such simulations becoming a useful visualization tool as technology allows for more realistic graphics.
Snow on the Birkie Trail at Mosquito Brook – hopefully a sign of good things to come!
Canadian Team Preview from the Mammoth High Altitude Camp – “Eight Mustaches…”
LAKE PLACID, NY (Oct. 10) – World Champion Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) made it an even 20 titles as he won the U.S. Nordic Combined Championships Saturday during Lake Placid’s annual Flaming Leaves Festival. For Lodwick, who had previously said having 20 U.S. titles would be great, the win on Saturday meant more than he thought it would. “This ranks up there with one of the more memorable national titles. I think I’m almost...
The last three workouts that I have done here in Lake Placid have all been either speeds or intervals. Friday morning we worked on starts, transitions and downhill sprints. That afternoon was did a level 4 classic session of 5×3 minutes. This morning was 2×10 minutes level 3 classic followed by 2x 10 minutes level [...]
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LAKE PLACID, NY (Oct. 9) – Athletes went through final training Friday in advance of Saturday’s U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships as a part of Lake Placid’s Flaming Leaves Festival. World Champions Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) will be among the favorites. Nordic combined star Lodwick is after his 20th U.S. title, while ski jumper Van is shooting for 14. Weather has been cool in Lake Placid...
LAKE PLACID, NY (Oct. 8) – Having 19 U.S. Championship titles is a lot of success to have amassed as a competitor. But for World Champion Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO), an even 20 sounds a lot nicer. Thankfully, Lodwick will have his shot at his 20th as the 2010 U.S. Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships hits Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, NY, this Saturday. “Yeah of course it would nice to even it out...