This is championship week and Boulder Nordic Sport is spread out all over the continent doing wax support at World Masters in British Columbia, Junior Nationals in Minneapolis and NCAA Championships in Vermont. With a lot riding on results at these major events, it has been fun to contribute our ski service expertise to help the teams and athletes achieve their goals. The following reports show a little bit of what is involved with running...
What happened: Coaches were notified that the Nordic Ski program would be cut from a Varsity sport to club status on Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 in a meeting between Dave Johnson, Tom Stock, and Carol Howe-Veenstra. Carol Howe-Veenstra, Tom Stock, Mary Geller, and Fr. Doug Mullin informed the athletes at 5:15pm on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011. No advanced warnings were given. No coaches or athletes were involved or informed of any discussions surrounding the decision...
The Winning Margin at the 2011 FIS World Ski Championship in Holmenkollen 8 out of 10 Individual Gold Medals, 19 out of 30 Total Gold Medals and 51 out of 90 Total Medals were won on Triac Poles. Ladies sprint F Name Nation Poles 1. Marit Bjørgen NOR SWIX 2. Arianna Follis ITA SWIX 3. Petra Majdic SLO One-Way Mens sprint F Name Nation Poles 1. Marcus Hellner SWE SWIX 2. Petter Northug NOR SWIX...
The 2012 Nordic World Championships proved to be one of the best championships in Nordic history. Great crowds, spectacular racing and beautiful tracks. The nordic community expected nothing less when the event took place in the acclaimed birth place of skiing. We called Atomic’s Nordic Race Director, the outrageous Roman Toferer, to get his perspectives on what it is like to be a technician at the World Championships. RICK HALLING: Congratulations, you turned in some...
ONE WAY, one of the leading Nordic Sports brand from Finland, is launching a full range of cross country skies and cross country boots from 2012. ONE WAY is joining as a partner the Salomon SNS system for the cross country binding.
It was a day of clouds, blowing snow and dropping temperature, it was a day of national pride. In a day of relay competitions one country has to come out on top and today, once again, that was Russia. Russia finished the day with 14 medals, the United States 12, Canada nine, Germany four, Italy two and France with one. The relays often will provide the most exciting races and finishes and today was no...
At Wednesday’s Junior Olympic mass-start classic races, “zeros” were the skis of choice. On race morning, coaches and athletes awoke to an inch of fresh, wet snow and temps hovering around freezing. Wet snow flurries continued throughout the day, while temps rose slightly, making for glazed tracks. Prior to the first race of the morning, the boy’s J2 races, the atmosphere around the wax trailers was frenzied. By later in the day, the level of...
The 2011 Equinox Ski Challenge will take place on March 19-20 at the Rendezvous Ski Trails in West Yellowstone. The event is a springtime celebration, a season finale and an opportunity for cross-country skiers to challenge themselves to new levels. Skiers of all abilities are welcome, and participants may enter as a relay team of up to 8 people, or as a soloist in 3-hour, 6-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour divisions. Until March 15, the registration...
After leaving the wax cabin this afternoon, it seemed hard to believe that we are halfway through Junior Nationals. All season we've been talking about skiing fast and looking forward to Junior Nationals and positive attitudes. The last few...
After leaving the wax cabin this afternoon, it seemed hard to believe that we are halfway through Junior Nationals. All season we've been talking about skiing fast and looking forward to Junior Nationals and positive attitudes. The last few...
Great success for the ONE WAY skiers at the Nordic World Championships in Oslo and the first days at the Biathlon WCS in Kanty Mansiysk (RUS). Gold for Martin Fourcade Gold for Vibeke Skofterud Gold for Kristin Steira Gold for the French Nordic Combined team with Jason Lamy Chappuis Gold for Tord Asle Gjerdalen And several other medals for Gjerdalen, Saarinen, Tobi Angerer, Jens Filbrich…
Once again Canadians showed up in mass at the Sparkling Hill Masters World Cup for the short course day of competition. The Canadian contingent sent 405 skiers to the start line throughout the day and finished with a total of 26 medals – five gold, nine silver and 12 bronze. Canadian Nancy Burden led all female racers, 45-49 years in the 10 kilometre freestyle event with a time of 0:29:34. British Columbian Pat Pearce (F55-59)...
I got a little excited about the Dachstein so I had to put that video up before I did a real blog. However, now I am ready to talk a little about Rogla and share some more photos from that part of the trip. Rogla is interesting. It’s a little micr...
Nordic Ultratune will be closed from March 10th to March 22nd. My wife and I will be traveling to Norway for the Birkebeiner!Service work that arrives during my absence will be taken care of as soon as I return. Don't worry - FedEx...
Nordic Ultratune will be closed from March 10th to March 22nd. My wife and I will be traveling to Norway for the Birkebeiner!Service work that arrives during my absence will be taken care of as soon as I return. Don't worry - FedEx...
Nordic Ultratune will be closed from March 10th to March 22nd. My wife and I will be traveling to Norway for the Birkebeiner!Service work that arrives during my absence will be taken care of as soon as I return. Don't worry - FedEx...
Nordic Ultratune will be closed from March 10th to March 22nd. My wife and I will be traveling to Norway for the Birkebeiner!Service work that arrives during my absence will be taken care of as soon as I return. Don't worry - FedEx...
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Yesterday we went up to the Dachstein glacier. It cost only €30 to go up and ski for a day, and believe me it was worth it. Writing about it won’t do any good, so here is a video and some photos.Basically we took a tram to almost 9,000ft and went...
Marathon Race Strategy from Chris Cook With a marathon being such a long race, having a proper strategy can be quite effective at getting you close to the top steps of the podium. However, don’t expect a race strategy to be more effective than training and race preparation. This is just another area to fine tune your preparation for your race. The first step is to know every inch of your course. If you are...