Our current week of training (7/30 - 8/5) is focused on high-volume training to build endurance. After a big week of training, we will follow-up with a recovery week. The recovery week allows the body to 'absorb' or super-compensate for the prior...
Today was our last day in Ramsau. Tomorrow we drive to Oberhof, Germany for 6 days of skiing in the tunnel. This morning I did two hours of double pole only on the glacier. It was a tough workout and … Continue reading →
I’m sitting in the Burlington terminal waiting to start my trans-Atlantic trip to Sweden but currently looking out over the Green Mountains and reflecting on the summer in Vermont. This has been my longest block of training in Craftsbury in quite some time and it was awesome! While I love being on the road there [...]
Kikkan Randall, the reigning women’s World Cup sprint champion, obviously had a pretty darn good season last year. How does it stack up against some of the best sprint seasons put together since 2005-2006? The first thing that stood out to me is that if you rank the best women’s sprint seasons, Randall participated in [...] Related posts:
6-31-12 Mary Beth reports: Had an amazing day of cross training yesterday! My son, Will and I climbed half dome in Yosemite. We started by moonlight and finished about 9 1/2 hours later. I think we'll take an easy day today.
To see a cool video that our title sponsor T2 put out on the YMCA clinic that Andy and Jessie gave, click HERE.
Andy and I have been in Ramsau, Austria for the past few days representing SMS T2 at the USST men's training camp. The skiing has been remarkably good with great spring skiing conditions. The first few days were overcast, but yesterday the clouds...
We had an hour and forty five minute skate ski on the glacier this morning. It was another gorgeous day. After the ski we did a little photo shoot. We all tried to ski in synch. It took a couple … Continue reading →
Eric Packer took this really nice picture of me on the glacier today: The hotel we are staying at this camp is incredible. It makes our lives fun and easy, and it allows us to focus on training. Tad Elliott … Continue reading →
Alex Cobb leads the team as the first starter this morning in the DP test. This morning we did the double pole test for the first time in a month and a half. As you can see from the pictures, it was a little misty out this morning, but quic...
A few notes about this data. The website that I scrape these results from isn’t, shall we say, the most consistent when it comes to the spelling of athlete names, or even their teams. That can make it difficult to slice the data along those dimensions, since it requires a fair bit of work adjusting [...] Related posts:
This past Friday, Coach Erin Mallory lead a bonus workout called "Save the Baby King Adventure Race". This workout comes from the coaches out at Sun Valley SEF. Fifteen athletes showed up to Colchester high school for an event that is part brains and p...
This was a great session. We had the entire pipeline from little J4's all the way to a Caldwell, Diggins, Mooney, Newell, Davis, Packer, Hamilton, (plus tons of junior and college top dogs) sprint final!vid footage below, high quailty version and...
Summer has been trucking along ! It seems like just the other day that we started our summer session and now it is almost over........ We have been working hard and have been traveling to camps near and far. Most of the group is back in town and w...
Foggy day on the glacier. There was maybe 15 or 20 feet of visibility for the whole ski. Simi, Tad, and I skied together for a 2 hour skate. Here is Simi getting a lactate test in the middle of … Continue reading →
Enjoyed a fun and action packed week helping coach at Loppet Adventure Camp. Thanks to the Loppet Foundation for making it possible for 12 Boys and Girls Club kids to enjoy the experiences of mountain biking, roller skiing, capture the flag, hiki...
One of the highlights of my summer has been taking a van full of kids from the Boys and Girls Club to Wirth Park for Loppet Adventure Camp. The City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation made this partnership possible. The logistics weren't easy b...
After a 2 day break for weather and the 5 km running race, we finished our Tour with a very hilly 50 mile bike ride this morning.We started by biking from school out through the town of Stratton.Heading up the hill into town.The Levins girls.The boys t...
Some of my U.S. Ski Team (USST) teammates, Tad Elliott and Simi Hamilton arrived here in Ramsau yesterday afternoon. Also here are Stratton Mountain School skier Eric Packer and USST coaches Chris Grover and Jason Cork. It’s good to have … Continue reading →
Ethan and Kelly got married on Friday and they had a party to celebrate yesterday. There were 4-5 bands, a pig roast and some great dancers (above).Special guest, Andy Newell, started the afternoon off on a good note.Bride and groom.Ethan was at SMS wi...