We’re already 24 days into the Team 350 Challenge! So far 1314 participants have logged well over 136 million meters towards our goal. It’s a great start but we still have a long way to go to reach our goal of 350 million meters by October 24th, the International Day of Climate Action. In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark to create a treaty to cut carbon emissions but we can make a...
PARK CITY, UT – (Oct. 13) U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team athlete Bryan Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, CO) will be doing his part to help others, participating in the Walk for Hope on Oct. 17 in Park City, UT. Fletcher teamed up with Candlelighters, an organization that helps families and children with cancer, to put on the event, which will hopefully raise $30, 000. “Our goal is trying to raise $30,000 for the program,” says Fletcher.”This...
Double Olympic Champion in 2006, Kristina Smigun of Estonia, is making a comeback, aiming to defend her Olympic gold in Vancouver. Right now the 32-year-old is in Ramsau and plans to travel to most of World Cup races this winter. “I decided in August that I would try to compete again. I have trained well and I feel that I have more to give on the ski tracks, ” said Kristina, now called Smigun-Vaehi, to...
This morning I woke up to a blanket of snow here in Lake Placid. Ski season is on its way! For the last intensity session of the camp we did a classic sprint time trial on Monday. It was run just like a real sprint race with the qualifying rounds, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. The course [...]
“You are your own final measure” – Dan Jansen
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...
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…”
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 [...]
November 24-28, 2009 The West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the dates for the 2009 Yellowstone Ski Festival. Join over three thousand other Nordic ski enthusiasts in West Yellowstone during the Thanksgiving week. With the fourth Thursday in November falling late in the month, we anticipate another successful snow packed festival. Back again for 2009 are the ever popular ski clinics, on-snow demo show, indoor ski expo, wax demos, speakers, and of...
One of the best quotes from the coaches conference came from Dan Jansen: Only you know if you gave everything you had. See all the photos and read more at
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) today announced the Central Cross Country Ski Association (CXC) as a new Community Olympic Development Program (CODP). The CXC supports more than 1,300 members throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Of these members, 871 are athletes and 40 percent are younger than age 13. “The Central Cross Country Ski Association has been working in this...
Steinbock Racing is proud to announce the arrival of North America’s newest professional cross-country race team. Steinbock Racing is a small team with big ambitions. Athletes Chris Cook, Zack Simons, and Andrew Johnson have a combined 12 years of US Ski Team experience, 3 Winter Olympics, 5 National Titles, and a win in virtually every major ski race in America, including the Birkebeiner, Boulder Moutain Tour, and the Owl Creek Chase. Steinbock Racing athletes will...
This morning all of the skiers that are here at the Olympic training center did a rollerski race this morning called the Climb to the Castle. The Climb to the Castle is a 5 mile race up Whiteface Mountain. I want to emphasize the UP part of it -all but few minutes of the entire [...]
Vancouver – The legal position of the women ski jumpers seeking to participate in their sport in the 2010 Olympics has been ‘misstated’ by VANOC in its response to their appeal arguments, according to Ross Clark, Q.C., legal counsel for the athletes and a partner with Davis LLP in Vancouver. “There are two fundamental constitutional concerns at issue in this appeal,” Clark explained with reference to arguments filed recently with the BC Court of Appeal. ...
A report from the Bend Nordic Team. Sunday, Oct. 4th brought a thick, wet snowstorm to Bend. Power was out. Trees were down. The skiing was, and still is, amazing! Members of the Bend Nordic Team continued to get after it Tuesday morning for some 4×7 minute intervals on near-perfect snow conditions. Wax of the day: VR50, although 55 or 60 covered with 45 or extra blue would probably have been even better to match...
The Burke Mountain Academy kicked off its Fall training camp a week ago in Sun Valley Idaho. The plan for the camp was to have a quality training block, taking advantage of the SVSEF facilities and surrounding hiking, biking, and roller-skiing trails. While we were excited to find miles and miles of perfect rollerskiing and hiking, we weren’t expecting to find ourselves training on snow at the beginning of October! Yesterday morning we did an easy two hour...
Here is a look at what I have been up to since arriving at the Lake Placid Olympic training center 5 days ago: Friday- am-distance skate rollerski, pm- distance trail run Saturday-am- distance run, pm-over distance classic rollerski Sunday- am-Level 4 bounding intervals, pm-recovery run Monday-am- classic speed workout, pm-distance skate Tuesday- am-over distance classic rollerski/run I have a few things [...]