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No pictures, as the internet here is not good enough to upload any.  The camp here is going very well and is our first intensity camp of the year.  So far we have done L3 classic intervals around the sprint course with a max double pole effort coming...

The wind is full-on grinding me down. It seems as though New Zealand spring, traveling across the Southern Pacific, is locked in battle with our snow bound plateau high in the Southern Alps and for the past four days the wind gusts have been upwards of 85km/hr. Spring is losing, as it remains winter-like up here, but not for lack of effort. With about 5 days of substantial winds bombarding us, I'm starting to worry that if this keeps up my clothes are going to begin to resemble a tattered main sail of an 18th century Spanish Galion nearing retirement; in tatters, stained (in my case from sport drink that blows out of my drink belt in the short span between unscrewing the lid, and lifting it to my lips), weathered and derelict.

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No pictures, as the internet here is not good enough to upload any.  The camp here is going very well and is our first intensity camp of the year.  So far we have done L3 classic intervals around the sprint course with a max double pole effort coming...

CANMORE, Alta.-Davin MacIntosh will play a key role in ensuring the continued growth of Canada’s cross-country skiing sport system well beyond the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. MacIntosh was hired as Cross Country Canada’s Executive Director, the national body announced Monday. MacIntosh has practised law with the major Calgary-based firm of Fraser Milner Casgrain for the past five years, developing an extensive network of contacts with leaders in the business and financial services industries....

Summer is over. Crisp mornings and changing leaves. This week I am enjoying a few days off after the summer base period and before the intensity kicks up next week. A little time to look back. divTwo big pieces of news for the summer. We moved into a n...

Summer is over. Crisp mornings and changing leaves. This week I am enjoying a few days off after the summer base period and before the intensity kicks up next week. A little time to look back.

Two big pieces of news for the summer. We moved into a new house in the mountains. After two years living right next to the airport the quiet is amazing! The running from the house isn't too bad either. And the big one is I have a new sponsor! Alaska Waste. Alaska's recycling and waste management company. I recycle. Do you? alaskawaste.net

Training has been rolling along quite well, although last week I started to feel like a flat tire so the time off started a little earlier than planned. With the Olympics coming up and looking at the Pursuit and the 50k as my best events this summer has been filled with a lot of what I like to call grinding. Nothing overly complicated just steady, hard training to get ready for the long stuff. A few interval days thrown in but simply put, as fast as I feel I can go and be ready to do it again the next workout. Pretty simple. The glacier is fantastic for this and the three camps up there were outstanding for both the fitness and technique. Extra blue in August would be nice but it's hard to get many days of the kind of tough klister skiing that can be found on occasion in Whistler. It's a different kind of skiing and I've got 75 hours of it so far this summer.

I've got one more month of dryland now here in Anchorage before I head to Park City for my altitude camp in October. Now some pics.


The glacier

The new neighborhood

The baby girl

I have lived in Minnesota for almost 5 years now and except for the first year I have visited the fair every year.My mother, who was also born in NYC and lived there most of her life, lives in MN now too and this was our first MN State Fair together! W...

I have lived in Minnesota for almost 5 years now and except for the first year I have visited the fair every year.My mother, who was also born in NYC and lived there most of her life, lives in MN now too and this was our first MN State Fair together! W...

I have lived in Minnesota for almost 5 years now and except for the first year I have visited the fair every year.My mother, who was also born in NYC and lived there most of her life, lives in MN now too and this was our first MN State Fair together! W...

I have lived in Minnesota for almost 5 years now and except for the first year I have visited the fair every year.My mother, who was also born in NYC and lived there most of her life, lives in MN now too and this was our first MN State Fair together! W...

I have lived in Minnesota for almost 5 years now and except for the first year I have visited the fair every year.My mother, who was also born in NYC and lived there most of her life, lives in MN now too and this was our first MN State Fair together! W...

I have lived in Minnesota for almost 5 years now and except for the first year I have visited the fair every year.My mother, who was also born in NYC and lived there most of her life, lives in MN now too and this was our first MN State Fair together! W...