Editor's note: This is Sun Valley, Idaho US “super master skier†Jon Engen’s article from the recent Norwegian Skarverennet. My body was stiff and sore after a 5 hour train ride, I had gotten up at 4:15AM to catch an early train in Oslo after a sleepless night, and I had stepped off a 24 hour flight schedule from Sun Valley, Idaho two days earlier. The legs felt like jello and I would have thought...
Get fit this summer: TorbjornSport’s early season special on PRO-SKI Rollerskis Expires April 1. Don’t miss out on a great opportunity to purchase skate or classic rollerskis at 15% discount from one of the best and most successful rollerski brands ever. Success and fitness: The Norwegian and Swedish National Team and the Canadian women’s team continue to include PRO-SKI Rollerskis in their dryland training. Users also include many of today’s top masters and a large...
Source: Atomic Press Release ATOMIC MARATHON TEAM’S STANISLAV REZAC TAKES OVERALL TITLE FOR WORLD LOPPET SERIES “I pushed the team pretty hard this fall and summer,†commented Atomic’s race director, Peter Juric. “Sometimes maybe I was too tough with the men and women on the team. They would start whining like the little fat boys who eat too much chocolate and are afraid to ski fast. So I would raise my voice and threaten them...
This is a follow up to the recent artice about three Oregon skiers at the Sapporo Marathon. After a suffering throught the toughest world loppet race, we visited the Okurayama jumping hill, site of the 1972 Olympics. This modern facility will host the 2007 Nordic World Championships. The sprint races will take place inside the Sapporo dome, which seats some 40,000! Following a visit to the Sapporo brewery, we spent a few days the at...
By Eli Brown, Fischer USA Nordic Race Service Director This past weekend was a great one for Fischer both internationally and domestically. With the final World Cup races of the season in Falun, Sweden both individual race champions and Overall World Cup champions were to be crowned. In Saturdays individual pursuit race, Fischer athlete Eugeni Dementiev of Russia won the mass sprint to capture his first world cup victory. Further back in the lead pack,...
Many of the Worlds best skiers are choosing PRO-SKI Rollerskis for their dryland training: PRO-SKI Rollerskis Congratulates The Norwegian and Swedish Team And members of The Canadian Women’s Team with their success in Oberstdorf. PRO-SKI Rollerskis continues to be the choice of many of the World’s most successful skiers. They are choosing PRO-SKIS rollerskis because of great ski feel, ideal speed and resistance as well as proven reliability. There are many rollerski choices in today’s...
Continue to read if you want to know what the top three men and the top two women used for glide wax base and top layers in the 2005 American Birkie. Press Release From SOLDA Glide Wax: – The entire Italian team at the 2005 American Birkie waxed with SOLDA Glide wax. They reported having great glide with SOLDA F-15 Violet and Blue Medium-Fluor as base wax and SOLDA HPO5 Fluorocarbon as top layer. The...
Great savings, stack up on SOLDA Glide wax now. Also save on pre-season orders on PRO-SKI Rollerskis and parts. Get ready for your next race or workout with SOLDA Solid PowerJet Fluorocarbons, Powder Fluorocarbons, Cold weather waxes, High, Medium and Low Fluor, and base prep waxes. Have the fastest skis at the lowest cost! Early spring Specials on SOLDA Glide wax expire March 15, 2005 and are limited to stock on hand. First come,first served....
The Great Race from Lake Tahoe to Truckee, California on March 6, is only 30-kilometer long, but has what it takes to get FasterSkier’s five-star rating and highest recommendation for “do it at least once†races. The Race Five kilometer of easy rolling terrain is followed by 10 kilometer of solid uphill, 5 kilometer of downhill and 10 kilometer of gradual downhill followed by a few short uphills with a steep 200 meter full downhill...
Sarah Peters from Canada won Norway's second largest ski race, the Holmenkollen marathon on February 12. Here is her race report and some photos. See previously posted stories Sarah Peters Wins Holmenkollen Ski Marathon podium shot top three women (foto Oyvind Aas) polse (hot dogs) Sarah Peters
Team TorbjornSport skier Dan Packman and friends Jan Spurkland and Levi Hensel all from Bend, Oregon went to Japan and raced the Sapporo Worldloppet ski marathon on February 13. Here are some photos: The Sapporo Worldloppet is held at the Sapporo Dome, on the outskirts of Sapporo City of 1.8 million people. The conditions were excellent with a base of more than 1 meter. The snow temperature at race start was -10 Celsius with 70%...
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Press Release From SOLDA Glide Wax: Pietro Piller Cottrer and Fulvio Valbusa, of the Italian National Team sponsored by SOLDA Glide Wax won the Gold and the Silver medals in today’s men’s 15-kilometer freestyle race at the Nordic World Championship in Oberstdorf, Germany. Conditions: Snow temperature -4 Celsius, air temperature -3 Celsius, humidity 75% Wax: SOLDA' F 31 Orange, covered by a layer of SOLDA Powerjet 1. SOLDA is available in USA from TorbjornSport: Pietro...
(Fasterskier.com interview with Sarah Peters after winning last season’s City Of Lakes Loppet — Interview With The Women’s Winner —————– February 6, 2005 Hallo, Hallo! I'll start with the big news – the race has been moved!!! Due to very odd and springy conditions, the snow here is Oslo has melted considerably. They've decided to move the race to Hamar, which is south of Lillehammer! So I'm off to Lillehammer on Tuesday where I am...
Fischer is proud to introduce our newest ski the RCS Classic Wet. After extensive testing on the World Cup, Fischer brings this new ski to the market for the 05/06 season. Kris Freeman was one of the first skiers in the world to get a pair of these skis — they were given to him before he won the U23 World Championships in 2003. A week later he went on to place 4th at the...
As I buckled up my seat-belt in rental van that we would be driving down to Mt. Itasca for the Super Tour races from Thunder Bay I asked the other passengers, “ Is this going to be an awesome trip?!â€. -Awesome indeed. For some reason my wits were just not about me (as my mother would say) for the week or so surrounding this trip. No comment on why. I had first of all flown...
Updated SOLDA Glide wax tips for the Boulder Mountain Tour, City of Lakes, Tug Hill and Frisco Gold Rush can now be viewed on TorbjornSport.com at Always check the latest weather forecast and make adjustment based upon SOLDA and TorbjornSport's unique Wax Maestro recommendations: www.fasterskier.com/opinion.php?id=1864
Check this out if you are racing the upcoming Boulder Mountain Tour, Tug Hill, Birke, City of Lakes, Frisco Gold Rush, Great Race and other races. Christina Paluselli of Italy won her second FIS Marathon World Cup race in a row, the Marcialonga, using SOLDA glide wax. Here is information on what wax combination she used, other wax reports and wax tips for a number of races around the country coming up this weekend the...
SOLDA Glide wax tips for the Craftsbury and the Noquemanon races on January 29. Always check the latest weather forecast and make adjustment based upon SOLDA and TorbjornSport's unique Wax Maestro recommendations: http://www.torbjornsport.com/index.php
Right now I am back in one of my favourite places to ski in Canada: Thunder Bay! While many of you know a bit about Thunder Bay because it was host of the 1995 World Nordic Championships, I thought it might be worth explaining why it is such a great place for a skier to visit or live for those of you who have never been. This morning I woke up to sunshine, lots of...