Career arcs have a beginning, an apogee, and an eventual end. So far, US Biathlon’s Sean Doherty has been on an ascendant path. He’s the most decorated career IBU Youth/Junior Worlds medalist with 10 total. With two Olympics to his name, and a 25th overall ranking on the World Cup last season, year by year Doherty’s training has yielded race improvements. Why shake it up? At 24-years-old, and two full winters before the 2022 Olympics,...
When she retired from international biathlon competition at twenty-five-years-old Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier retreated back into a more private existence. Although still arguably in her prime and flush with a treasure chest loaded with championship medals, Dahlmeier’s path was hers to define. Like many nordic sport athletes of late, Dahlmeier has taken to mountain running. Although just coming to our attention, Dahlmeier’s mountain running feat on August 31, deserves some spray. She won the 52-kilometer Karwendelmarsch,...
Elan Sports USA is looking for an energetic and self-motivated Marketing Intern to join the Elan-Alpina-Rottefella brands. If you’re an ambitious individual who loves to ski and enjoy the outdoors and knows how to communicate that passion to others, then we want to work with you. Your work will include assisting with promotions, conducting market analysis, and implementing our overall marketing strategy. In addition to being a strong communicator, you should have excellent multitasking and...
National team naming for American cross-country skiing tends to roughly correspond to the overall rhythm of the training year. Team nominations come out in May; World Cup Period I starts are (at least these days) announced in June; American professional skiers then know where they stand early in the summer, and can plan out their training and racing seasons accordingly. So far, so good. A total of twenty athletes were named to the U.S. Cross-Country Ski...
Last week we posted a questionnaire asking for your opinions on the use of fluorinated wax. Below are the results of the survey. We selected only a portion of written responses to publish with today’s story. Thanks again for your feedback. As of September 26, we had 160 respondents to our ski wax questionnaire. Here’s a breakdown of how respondents defined themselves as a percentage of overall respondents: Master aged skier: 55% Non-master Senior Aged...
Creating an unforgettable custom Nordic suit design for your team can be tricky. I’m sure you’ve seen a few suits that really stood out at the last race you went to, and many that didn’t. Below, we’ve outlined a few tips to help when creating that eye catching Nordic suit your team can be proud of for seasons to come. Choosing a “Design Style” A great way to get inspired is to incorporate team/brand...
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Just shy of thirty-years-old, Bozeman’s Erika Flowers stills revs her aerobic engine up and over the big hills. The news that she had won the 50-kilometer The Rut mountain running race at Big Sky Resort outside Bozeman, Montana was a surprise to some — primarily to Flowers herself. She pulled away from full-time ski training last winter, but the 9,951 feet of climbing during The Rut proved she’s a multi-sport talent. Even with her reduced...
On September 20, it was first reported by the Associated Press (AP) that the LIMS data handed over to WADA by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) had been manipulated and was moving forward with possible sanctions. The data in question came from the Moscow testing lab and was delivered to WADA as a conditon for reinstating Russia’s anti-doping program as compliant. The LIMS data was used to cross reference leaked data — acquired from a...
There’s no doubt the fluorinated wax landscape is changing. This week, TOKO USA sent out an email updating its inventory. Part of what caught our eyes was this: “JetStream and HelX will not be available this year or in the future”. Those two products have been widely adopted on the race circuit. Both are highly fluorinated ski base finishing products. The dust is still settling from the EPA’s push to regulate the ski wax industry....
First up, the cheese is going nowhere. The cheese we speak of is the cheese of record when it comes to cross-country skiing: Le Gruyère. It turns out the Finns are fond of Le Gruyère too.
The Master Skier and The Master Skier Annual Ski Journal was for 31 years an anticipated read. However, it’s grassroots origin story begets the polished journal it became when Bob Gregg at 77 years old and Nancy Gregg, 73, announced in August their publication was no more. Having lived in Michigan for many years, Bob Gregg was racing at the 1986 North American Vasaloppet in Traverse City. The storied Tom Kelly, the U.S. Ski Association press...
The NENSA rollerski series ramped up this past weekend outside Lake Placid, New York. As part of the drive to draw more skiers to the rollerski series, Saturday included a two race format known as a doubleday event: event 1 consisted of a 3-kilometer skate prologue followed by a 1.5-k cross-country cross (XCX) featuring several agility segments. Athletes earned a reward for performances in each event. Both events were individual start and their aggregate times...
Boulder Nordic is hiring for locations in Boulder, CO and Minneapolis, MN. We are looking for: Retail Sales Lead (Minneapolis, MN) Full-time. Responsibilities include: • Oversee daily opening and closing procedures. • Coordinate operations with Service Manager • Monitor and maintain in-store inventory with Warehouse Manager. • Address and resolve customer complaints, returns, and warranties. • Support of sales staff. • Ensure store is well merchandised at all times and in working order. • Scheduling...
With the global reach of social media, photos are popping with new snow somewhere in the now chilling Northern Hemisphere. Almost midway through September, it’s not too early to think of World Cup skiing and the places those elite athletes will go. We’ve produced an interactive map organized by World Cup Period that details race location and race type. Here’s a link to the map if you’d rather explore it as a stand-alone webpage. As the...
On the eve before a full weekend of rollerski racing in Lake Placid, New York, we spoke with NENSA’s Justin Beckwith and cross-country ski supporter Marty Hall about their involvement with developing rollerski races in the Northeast. Here’s an audio short of the interview with two people making things happen.
After appearing in ESPN’s Body Issue in June 2018, Jessie Diggins Diggins recommends utilizing resources from the “What to Say Initiative” launched by the WithAll Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on advancing eating disorder support and prevention. She explained that though a coach cannot cause an eating disorder in an athlete, research suggests that the language used by prominent adults in a young person’s life can greatly influence that persons’ body image, self-esteem, and likelihood...
Tahoe Donner Cross Country Ski Area is looking for avid Nordic skiers to join our team. We have openings in our Professional Ski Patrol; Cross Country Ski School; restaurant, and a variety of openings at our Downhill Ski resort and Snowplay area. Tahoe Donner is located in the Lake Tahoe, California area, which boasts over 300 days of sunshine, a deep snowpack, and one of the Nation’s leading Nordic ski areas. https://www.myfuck.club/tags/russkie-dialogi-v-porno/ Contact xc@tahoedonner.com for...
We raise up all by promoting opportunities for gender equity in coaching. With the proper perspective, competition has the power to raise up. A great coach provides and promotes opportunities for improvement and growth. At its best, sport uplifts. Otherwise competition only separates a winner from the losers. Coaches only teach winning, and sport just sells cheap beer. Cross-country ski racing has an extraordinary power to teach lessons beyond the sport. Ski races are a...
This is part two of a series featuring urban based cross-country clubs and how they make it work in the concrete jungle. You can read part one here. On the homepage of the Cambridge Sports Union (CSU) is an apt quote from tennis champion Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” The quote from Ashe came about as he described how to deal with challenges. And it’s the...