We had our first rollerski race on Saturday. Even though it was super low key I realized that it had been forever since I'd put on a race bib. All this training sometimes gets in the way of racing! I set a PR by three seconds. Which is a very small PR,...
We had our first rollerski race on Saturday. Even though it was super low key I realized that it had been forever since I'd put on a race bib. All this training sometimes gets in the way of racing! I set a PR by three seconds. Which is a very small PR,...
We had our first rollerski race on Saturday. Even though it was super low key I realized that it had been forever since I'd put on a race bib. All this training sometimes gets in the way of racing! I set a PR by three seconds. Which is a very small PR,...
We had our first rollerski race on Saturday. Even though it was super low key I realized that it had been forever since I'd put on a race bib. All this training sometimes gets in the way of racing! I set a PR by three seconds. Which is a very small PR,...
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Great Britain may not be renowned for its programs in Cross-Country Skiing, but a group of dedicated enthusiasts at Huntly, Scotland, between Aberdeen and Inverness, are doing their best to change that. Huntly Nordic & Outdoor Center is a purpose-built facility in a delightful setting, which includes 400m of all-weather classic mat and 800m of tarmac roller skiing tracks. When the there is snow, there are forest tracks in the Clashindarroch Forest, 13 miles from the center. The Centerâ€TMs...
The Road to Whistler: Lindsey Dehlin By Nat Herz · August 8th, 2009 This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series The Road to Whistler Lindsey Dehlin is already a veteran of two Olympic Games, having been selected to the U.S. teams in 2002 and 2006. In 2008, Dehlin won her first national championship, in the team sprint [...]
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things beyond and in between. A great teacher and friend now gone, never gone. (photo: Mike Romine)
things beyond and in between. A great teacher and friend now gone, never gone. (photo: Mike Romine)
Jericho, VT – The first day of racing at the North American Biathlon Rollerski Championships provided plenty of head to head action and some great shooting by youngsters Addie Byrne (Bovey, MN) and Wynn Roberts (Battle Lake, MN). Sunshine and cooler...
Jericho, VT – The first day of racing at the North American Biathlon Rollerski Championships provided plenty of head to head action and some great shooting by youngsters Addie Byrne (Bovey, MN) and Wynn Roberts (Battle Lake, MN). Sunshine and cooler...
The Turkish Ski Federation is making great progress in the development of skiing in Turkey and hosting the 2011 FISU Winter University Games (known as the Universiade). The planned site of the competitions, Erzurum (at 1850m), is the biggest city in the Eastern Anatolian region and is also a very ancient settlement. Located at the skirts of Palandoken Mountain, the city has gained great importance in the field of winter tourism in recent years. Just 150 km from...
span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-family:arial;"Hi all,/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /I'm new to the group, and since I have to be out of state this summer (unfortunately), I thought I should post something so I'm not totally forgotten so soon after I met most of you.../span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /Summer has been hectic...here's a summary: I was married on May 23rd in Minneapolis, and then left for 10 days in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Less than a week after I returned to Minneapolis, I left for 10 days in Japan. I presented a paper at a circuit design conference, but figured as long as I'd be half way around the world, I really had to spend some time touring. Less than a week after I got back from Japan, I moved to Austin, TX for a few months to do another internship with IBM Research. I'm about ready to finish my PhD in CMOS circuit design at the U of MN, but it's not a great time to be looking for jobs, so I'm kind of waiting out the worst part of the recession before finishing up. Therefore, coming back to Austin (for my 3rd stint here) provided me with a chance to get some more experience and earn a decent paycheck for awhile./span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /The summer in Austin is always a killer, but this summer has been one of their worst ever. The high temp has been over 100 almost every day since I arrived at the end of June. And, no, it's NOT a dry heat. So although the temps "cool down" to a little under 80F in the early morning, the humidity is usually ~80%. There is no choice but to deal with this if you want to run or rollerski outdoors, so we just get used to it and accept that paces won't be quite as fast./span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /Although some weekend traveling has interrupted my training schedule a couple times, here is a normal week for me now:/spanbr /br /span style="font-family:arial;"M: 11-12 mile run, lift/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /Tu: 11-12 mile run with 30 min tempo (~5:30 pace), lift/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /W: 1:10-1:20 rollerski/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /Th: 10 mile run with speed work (track or fartlek), lift/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /F: 11-13 mile run, lift/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /Sa: 15+ mile run/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /Su: long-ish rollerski (hope to be getting this to 2.5+ hours soon)/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /Hope you are all enjoying the cool weather up north!/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /John/span span style="font-family:arial;"br /br /ps. here are some pics from my travels:br /br //span /spandiv style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:85%;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BHb-Q9fL1qI/Sn2lpNtnxRI/AAAAAAAABvU/P5tKnKxK514/s1600-h/DSCN0217.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BHb-Q9fL1qI/Sn2lpNtnxRI/AAAAAAAABvU/P5tKnKxK514/s320/DSCN0217.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367628458369729810" border="0" //a/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" The new wife (Sarah) and I in Mexico./spanspan style="font-size:85%;"br /br //span/divspan style="font-size:85%;" /spandiv style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:85%;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BHb-Q9fL1qI/Sn2lo1gyzmI/AAAAAAAABvM/UXKOJQaUNOI/s1600-h/John_KaminarimonGate_SensojiTemple.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BHb-Q9fL1qI/Sn2lo1gyzmI/AAAAAAAABvM/UXKOJQaUNOI/s320/John_KaminarimonGate_SensojiTemple.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367628451873476194" border="0" //a/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" class="gphoto-photocaption-caption" Sensōji Temple in Asakusa. It's a Buddhist temple, and Tokyo's oldest. In this picture you actually see the Kaminarimowbrn, or “Thunder Gate". The temple is behind that./span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-4340859546926807729?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
The Ironwood camp is rapidly approaching and I am excited to train with the team again but I also greatly enjoy training by myself. In order to be a successful skier I think you need to like training alone in the forest or on a quiet stretch of road. I think the hardest part is [...]
The Ironwood camp is rapidly approaching and I am excited to train with the team again but I also greatly enjoy training by myself. In order to be a successful skier I think you need to like training alone in the forest or on a quiet stretch of road. I think the hardest part is [...]
The International Olympic Committee on Friday launched the bid process for hosting the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, setting a deadline of 15th October 2009 for national Olympic committees to inform it of applicant cities. Applicant cities will participate in the observer program at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (CAN), ahead of the deadline for submission of application files on 15th March 2010. The IOC will confirm what bids have been accepted next June. Candidate cities will have until 11th January 2011...
This is the first of National Team Email Reports during the 2009 Australian winter. The intention is to provide a summary of team activities and competitions during the season, and in particular to report on progress in the Australia – New Zealand Continental Cup Series. This and other news will also be available on the Australian Cross Country Skiing Website FIS Australia – New Zealand Continental Cup The FIS Australia – New Zealand Cup (ANC) is the...
Members of the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping team and their nonprofit foundation Women’s Ski Jumping USA are hosting a benefit Aug. 19, 2009 at the exclusive Huntsman Mountain Estate in Deer Valley, Utah in an effort to keep their program from dissolving. In May, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association – which had been supporting the elite athletes for three years – dropped all funding to the women’s team citing it as a budget decision...