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A little morning pre-race peek into APU-MannixSmythskiFitzH BrooksGARonski
My previews for the US biathlon teams will be briefer, which reflects the fact that I know less about the US biathlon team, and biathlon in general. Feel free to correct me in the comments if I get anything horribly wrong. For example, I’m going to take a very simplistic approach to who’s actually on [...] Related posts:
My previews for the US biathlon teams will be briefer, which reflects the fact that I know less about the US biathlon team, and biathlon in general. Feel free to correct me in the comments if I get anything horribly wrong. For example, I’m going to take a very simplistic approach to who’s actually on [...] Related posts:
divThe SMS Nordic team is always trying to decide what workouts we want to do. There are so many great ones to choose from but we can't pick them all and come up with a program that makes sense. There are some key components to any Nordic training pr...
"Best week of skiing in my life. Best classic ski ever." Brennan Degen. West Money Shot.Ryley Walker starting the 2011 season. Supertour 15km.Jackson Rich. 15km.Hans Halvorsen. 15km.Peter Kling. Classic Sprint.Technique work in the sun.Noah Eckstein.Tu...
Caitlin and I have been receiving a lot of emails and phone calls of congratulations. Thank you for all the well wishes, we are very excited. A lot of people have been asking about the ring. Matt Firth, a local artist from the Methow Valley custom made the ring. We are not big on material possessions but [...]
I’m psyched to be back in Vermont and skiing on snow (although that might not last long), but I had a really wonderful Thanksgiving with my family, and I miss them, too. I traveled to Irvington, Virginia to see my aunt, uncle, cousins, and grandparents. I hadn’t seen my dad’s family in a couple of [...]
We may not have much snow in Vermont right now but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have access to great skiing! Early this morning we loaded up the van and headed to Stowe to ski the Notch road which is now closed for winter. The freezing rain that hit the area on Friday helped [...]
The world can be unfair, and people can do terrible things to each other. Sadly, cross country skiers are not immune from this pain. When a woman can't take her children out cross country skiing in a local park without being robbed at gunpoint and then sexually assulted in front of her kids (article a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/110839604.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU"here/a), it certainly drives this point home.br /br /Cross country skiing is supposed to be safe. The ski trails are supposed to be a refuge away from the ills of society and the rush of the modern world. And when this refuge is invaded and the world spills onto the trails in all its horror I feel violated. It feels like the skiing community as a whole has been assulted.br /br /But what defines us is not the terrible things we must endure, but how we come out on the other side. The woman who was assulted released a a href="http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-poho/messages/topic/3WktKMthY3tOQ4CeSWcZmS"statement/a on a community forum. In it she said:br /br /strong"At one point the boys (who were robbing her) asked for our skis. I wish they could have taken them and used them and experienced the pure joy of gliding in the fresh snow, getting winded from exertion and breathing in cool, fresh air. Please send them all the love you can muster. I think they really need it."br //strongbr /Wow.br /br /If that does not speak to the power of an individual to forgive, and the power of skiing, I don't know what does. I personally am in awe of her response.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-2518025495955131247?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Lone Mountain in Big Sky- Montana!
I couldn’t be happier right now. The racing season has begun and I have started it off with one of my best classic races of my life. Things have only gone up from there. On Sunday I went out for a nice over distance ski and my first ski of the year on Windy Ridge. [...]
As always, there’s lots of stuff I could focus on, but we can’t have everything. As is usually the case, the weekend was a bit of a mixed bag for the North Americans. Kris Freeman continued to look quite strong despite some bad luck with his poles. Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw had much stronger [...] Related posts:
We just finished our first series of racing in West Yellowstone, Montana this past week. APU threw down an amazing team performance as well as many amazing individual races. There wasn't a single race that APU didn't have a team member standing on the ...
James Southam has well prepared skis. Photo: Ian Harvey / TokoYou've been training to get the most from your skiing, so make sure your skis aren't a limiter.Prepare all of your skis to run their best with a fresh stone grind and hotbox service. ...
This recap of this past weekend’s WC races will be a little different than before. Rather than focus on individual performances, I’d like to look at the races as a group. Stage race formats are relatively new to the cross country world, and these short stage races are even newer. Since they are roughly modeled [...] Related posts:
While the rest of the GRP took off early Monday morning last week, I managed to grab an extra hour or so of sleep before embarking on a marathon of bus rides to Aare, Sweden. In fact, my teammates made it back to Craftsbury on Monday before I made it to my friend’s house in [...]
The week of the West Yellowstone camp is always one of the craziest of the ski season and this year was no exception. From skiing on roller skis into the Park our first day, to postponing the sprints because there was so much snow that the timer could not get over the pass, it was [...]
West is done. I finished off the three days of racing with another 7th place finish. No matter what my fitness I always seem to be in the middle part of the top 10... In Saturdays 10k I went for the opposite tactics from Friday when I went out too har...