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Koby Gordon hails from Saxtons River, VT. He will be a 9th grade winter term day student this year. Koby is a training machine. When not out rolling, riding or running, he can be found playing soccer. On the rare occasion when he is not training, Koby ...

Conventional wisdom (and probably a fair bit of physiology research) holds that going fast over short distances is a skill we tend to lose as we age.  Are fast World Cup sprinters younger than fast distance skiers? Let’s look at the age distributions of top thirty racers in sprinting and distance races since the 2003-2004 [...] Related posts:

  1. Best Young Distance Skiers: 2009-2010
  2. Best Young Sprint Skiers: 2009-2010
  3. Comparing Variability In Men’s & Women’s Sprinting

We had perfect weather for our ski this morning at Ball Mtn Dam. Low 60's with low humidity..what a joy for a distance ski with some pick-ups. The road at BMD is only 2.5 km long, but it makes for a nice 5 km out and back with variable terrain. Best of...

14  tough female athletes 4 coaches 2 groomers 2 piston bullies 1 glacier 1 building 7.5 km of groomed trails 26 hours of skiing 3 helicopter loads of food 2 bottomless coffee makers 1 guitar 50+ trashy magazines 2 choreographed dances These are just some of the numbers that describe my week on the glacier.  After a little over a week of dryland, we drove to Girdwood which [...]

Anika Miller joins us from McCall, Idaho as an 11th grader. She spent last week in Sun Valley at the National J2 camp. Anika is always happy and she never gets tired (a great combo)! She started skiing when she was very, very young and she cried the w...

The USST has expanded somewhat, adding several younger skiers. Acknowledging that FIS points are only a small piece of performance assessment, it has interested me that at various times USST staff have mentioned comparing skiers’ FIS points to medalists, or some other group of top skiers. So here are two graphs showing the younger US [...] Related posts:USST Preview: Liz Stephen & Morgan Arritola USST Preview: Simi Hamilton & Noah Hoffman USST Preview: Kikkan Randall

This is a bit late, but I would like to post something about how awesome the training camp with all the US team women and Canadian ladies was. By that, I mean I want to tell you all about why it was so awesome, and what I learned from all that awesome...

We had our monthly d-pole test this morning and it went well. There was a little tailwind and that combined with slow conditions for our two previous tests, helped almost everyone to new personal records on the 1.4 km uphill. Why did he have us take of...

Helena Bigelow joins us as an eighth grade winter term day student. She lives in Langrove and comes from the local West River BKL program. Helena loves to read and is quite good at the trombone. She spent a good part of the summer in Norway, brushing ...

Today is my last day at home before I take off for a one month training camp in Europe.  It has been great to be home for the past few months but I am definitely ready for a change of … Continue reading →

Today is my last day at home before I take off for a one month training camp in Europe.  It has been great to be home for the past few months but I am definitely ready for a change of … Continue reading →

Today is my last day at home before I take off for a one month training camp in Europe.  It has been great to be home for the past few months but I am definitely ready for a change of … Continue reading →

Today is my last day at home before I take off for a one month training camp in Europe.  It has been great to be home for the past few months but I am definitely ready for a change of … Continue reading →