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Earlier this week, I came up with a draft calendar for the winter. It is (at least to me) very familiar. The first month of the race season is West Yellowstone, followed by BC – this year it’s Silver Star and Rossland. Then US Nationals, wh...
And….. we’re off!!!! As I write this I’m currently sitting on the airplane enroute to early season racing in West Yellowstone. It’s a gorgeous, clear day and 30,000 feet reveals much of Alaskan’s grandeur. It’s fun to look out...
The twin cities got a bit of snow last Friday and Saturday, which was very nice. We have had a very mild fall so far, and that has made for some quite enjoyable training conditions (although now that I have a job with an hour commute each way, I am still figuring out how to fit it all in...). Where I live in Red Wing we only got about 3 or 4 inches, but that was still enough to get out to the high school ball fields for some skiing on Saturday and Sunday. It was warm slushy snow, and harries were kicking well on Saturday. Sunday I broke trail on skate skis, which was quite the strength workout. I had to V2 the downhills, and V1 everything else.br /br /This Thursday Vakava had our first practice on snow. We opted to head to the U of MN golfcourse to find some pretty much untouched snow to try our hand at crust skiing. It worked pretty well, although that part of the cities definately got more snow than Red Wing, and the problem was that we would break through pretty often. It was still very enjoyable to be out skiing, and although conditions did not lend themselves to doing intervals, we still got in a good workout chasing each other around the course.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-8010978091568310319?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Greetings from Canmore. The races in Canmore are over and it looks like I’ve been chosen for the fifth and final spot for the December world cups. Congrats to Russell Courrier for his world cup qualification, and an impressive sweep of all three trials here. I hope to move forward from here and build on [...]
Skis are waxed, laundry is clean, and snow is falling. Life’s good in West Yellowstone. Now that winter is here, it’s time to start dreaming about summer. Check this out for a little inspiration. . .
Statistical Skier’s Week In Review has it’s first sponsor, Skadi Nordic! If removing the snow and ice from the bottom of your boots is your least favorite part of skiing, I’d head over to their site and check them out, cause they’ve solved that problem. World Cup racing finally gets underway this weekend in Gällivare, [...] Related posts:
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I’m squeezing in the last preview post for the Canadian ski team just under the wire! For both Ivan Babikov and George Grey I’m going to focus in on the distance events. They both certainly do sprints in stage events like the Tour de Ski, but I think it’s fair to say they both have [...] Related posts:
Teaching US to Winbr /br /The race season began last weekend for many of the Worlds top skiers and the USST had some great results. Kris Freeman posted a 1st and a 2nd , Kikkan won a sprint, Andy qualified 2nd without feeling great and Ida, Noah, Liz, ...
Since I’ve been making some graphs now and then for the folks at skidpepp.se, I’ve been paying more attention to the Swedish skiers. I noticed that one performance last weekend that turned some heads was Maria Rydqvist’s second place finish in the distance race in Bruksvallarna, behind Charlotte Kalla. Of course, everyone was quite some [...] Related posts:
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Continuing with my previews (gotta get them out before Saturday!), we’ll move on to the Canadian women, or at least two of them. As has been noted elsewhere, since the retirement of both Beckie Scott and more recently, Sara Renner, the Canadian women haven’t had as much success as the men. Let’s look at two [...] Related posts:
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The Rendezvous ski trails in West are groomed and ready to go. We got out for the first skate of the season (well, in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway) this morning and I went for a chill classic ski in freshly groomed tracks this evening. Even though the trails are in good shape, there are hardly [...]
So on Monday I posted some graphs that were intended to provide some context for some of the distance race results over the weekend. Sprinting wasn’t left out in the cold because I dislike it (although, to be fair, I’m sort of a traditionalist in this respect; I will always love distance racing more, sorry!), [...] Related posts:
I thought it only fair that I give our good neighbors to the north the same treatment as I did with the USST previews. These will be a bit shorter on the gab, though. We’ll start things off with Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw. Both of these guys are probably more of a threat in [...] Related posts:
Harvey looking good in our new team parka.Here are a couple training pictures from Bruksvallarna.