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Canadians Tackle Long Days and Epic Amounts of Monopoly at Haig Training Camp
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Canadians Tackle Long Days and Epic Amounts of Monopoly at Haig Training Camp

Kieran JonesJuly 30, 2010

During the month of June, the Canadian National Ski Team (CNST) tackled the usual Haig glacier ‘Yo-Yo’ Camp. Featuring 23 days of skiing, intervals, distance workouts and traveling from high to low altitudes and back again, the ‘Yo-Yo’ camp has been a fixture on the CNST schedule for the last couple of years. The training camp has always been a difficult one, due to its length and its strenuous workouts. The 2010 edition featured four...

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Spillane Tears ACL, MCL; Will Miss December World Cups

Nathaniel HerzJuly 29, 2010

If one of his athletes was forced to endure a serious injury, U.S. Nordic Combined Head Coach Dave Jarrett would probably prefer that it happen to Johnny Spillane. Earlier this week, Spillane—the 29-year-old triple Olympic silver medalist—was diagnosed with a torn ACL and MCL in his left knee, which will likely require at least four months of recovery. But according to Jarrett, after several injuries over the past few years, Spillane is “a pro at...

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Two by Fours, Bonfires, and Multigrain Pita Chips: An Afternoon at Andy Newell’s Cabin
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Two by Fours, Bonfires, and Multigrain Pita Chips: An Afternoon at Andy Newell’s Cabin

Nathaniel HerzJuly 29, 20101

In the voice mail he leaves me with directions to his cabin in the woods, Andy Newell gives me the street address—number 380—but tells me to just give him a call when I get close, since it’s not marked. But when I drive through the nearest town, he doesn’t answer, and then, predictably, when I find 376 and 382 a mile down the dirt road, I don’t have cell service. After driving past two surly-looking...

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Pro Workout: Bounding Intervals with Kristina Strandberg
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Pro Workout: Bounding Intervals with Kristina Strandberg

Topher SabotJuly 28, 20101

Our Pro Workout series continues, this week shifting from rollerskis to running shoes for ski bounding intervals with XC Oregon’s Kristina Strandberg. A native of Sweden, Strandberg is a consistent force on the U.S. racing circuit.  A two-time SuperTour overall champion and repeat winner of the FasterSkier Continental Skier of the Year award, Strandberg earned a spot on the World Cup circuit for the start of last season. She competed in seven World Cup events,...

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In Contrast to Lake Placid Venues, Soldier Hollow Blazes its Own Path
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In Contrast to Lake Placid Venues, Soldier Hollow Blazes its Own Path

FasterSkierJuly 28, 20102

Following the funding scare with the Olympic Regional Development Authority in Lake Placid earlier this year, FasterSkier correspondent Peter Minde is examining the structure and viability of various post-Olympic venues around North America. This piece, his second in the series, looks at the status of Soldier Hollow, in Utah. Cross country skiing and biathlon drew more athletes and spectators than any other sports at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. But Soldier...

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Korzun Named Sports Dietician

FasterSkierJuly 27, 2010

PARK CITY, UT (July 26) – Focusing on nutrition as one of the keys to athletic success, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) has named Adam Korzun as sports dietician, according to High Performance Director Troy Flanagan. Korzun has worked with the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding for the past two years through the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and joined the USSA full-time earlier this summer. “We are thrilled to have someone...

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Last Chance to Win Swix Triacs!

FasterSkierJuly 27, 2010

Time flies in the high-paced world of cross-country skiing, and it is once again time for our bi-weekly newsletter, the Start List.  That means today is the last day to sign-up to be eligible to win a pair of new Swix Triac ski poles!  Every registered recipient of the Start List is entered in the drawing. Two weeks ago we gave away a pair of Fischer Hole Skis.  The winner actually thought he was receiving...

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What Happens To Successful World Junior Racers?
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What Happens To Successful World Junior Racers?

Nathaniel HerzJuly 27, 2010

Identifying talent in endurance athletics at a young age can be a challenging task.  My goal in this article is to give you a sense of what different levels of success at WJC/U23s might indicate and how much variability there is between athletes in this respect. Our basic tool will be a graph of FIS points versus age for distance results, broken down by their best result (finishing place) at WJC/U23s.  This gives us a...

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Pat Casey to Head Holderness XC Program

FasterSkierJuly 26, 2010

HOLDERNESS, NH—Pat Casey, the former Continental Cup coach for the U.S. Ski Team, has been hired to head up the nordic ski program for the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The former NCAA All-American skier has coached the national team’s Continental Cup racers since 2006. He has also coached two World Championship Teams, headed up the U23 Championship Team program for the past four years, run Regional Elite Group (REG)camps throughout the country, and...

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Devon Kershaw Answers the Eternal Question: Who Would Win the Hushovd-Northug Cage Match?

Kieran JonesJuly 26, 20105

There are few sports that can challenge the intensity of cross-country skiing, but cycling is one of them. Anyone who has ever pedaled a road bike uphill–which includes almost all cross-country skiers–can appreciate the difficulty of the Tour de France, and as such, we decided to get some perspective on the race from Canadian Olympian Devon Kershaw. Kershaw himself is no stranger to the bicycle–Carlos Barredo-style? DK: Haha, Barredo was classic. Using the wheel for...

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Pros of Tomorrow: Ida Sargent

Nathaniel HerzJuly 26, 2010

Before last year, Ida Sargent had had a handful of strong results, but the only way you wouldn’t have heard her name by the end of the 2009-2010 season is if you’d been buried in a snowbank. Sargent, who split her winter competing for the Craftsbury Green Racing Project and the Dartmouth Ski Team, started out with some top-10s in the early season SuperTours, then really heated up at the national championships in Anchorage, where...

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Pursuits Fade from U.S. Domestic Circuit

Nathaniel HerzJuly 21, 20101

When James Southam lined up for the start of a 30 k pursuit race at the Olympics in Whistler in February, it was the first time he’d done so all year. At the 2009 World Championships in the Czech Republic, Southam faced a similar challenge: the pursuit race there was only his second of the season, following a World Cup in Whistler earlier that year. Of the 24 SuperTour races scheduled by the U.S. Ski...

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Summer School
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Summer School

Maddy WendtJuly 21, 2010

A business primarily known for being the only US importer of Marwe rollerskis, Finn Sisu Sauna and Ski Shop has even more to offer this summer.  Monday, July 12 kicked off the Sisu Summer Lecture Series. The lectures, held at Finn Sisu’s new store location in Lauderdale, Minnesota, will take place every Monday night at 6:00pm.

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Poker With Petter
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Poker With Petter

Nathaniel HerzJuly 20, 20101

I step off the bus from the Strip into the Las Vegas evening and walk inside the Palms Casino, about 40 minutes early for the poker game between Marcus Hellner and Petter Northug. I haven’t eaten since breakfast, and I’m just coming off a two or three mile walk in search a loaf of bread, jostling tourists in 100-degree heat. The only place I can find to make my peanut butter and jelly sandwich is...

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U.S. Ski Team Heads South; For Three Weeks, Volume is Focus
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U.S. Ski Team Heads South; For Three Weeks, Volume is Focus

Nathaniel HerzJuly 17, 2010

When Kris Freeman, Andy Newell, Kikkan Randall, and the four other members of the U.S. Ski Team (USST) head out on the first ski of their on-snow camp in New Zealand this week, they will have at least 7,657 reasons to appreciate it. That’s number of miles separating Wanaka, the site of the team’s camp, from Park City, Utah, where the team is headquartered. The USST leaves Sunday for New Zealand, and for the next...

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Compartment Syndrome Survey: Please Help

FasterSkierJuly 17, 2010

Many of us within the nordic ski community are concerned about the seeming increasing incidence of Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome among our athletes. We see what is happening within our own club and possibly regionally. It will be interesting, and hopefully helpful, to understand what is happening nationally. For this reason, have created the below survey. Please take time and fill it out. We will share the results with you on fasterskier.com in the early...

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