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On Sunday, we had our last rollerski time trial of the year (fingers crossed, though, that we won’t have a surprise one in December or anything). It wasn’t our last time trial – there will be plenty on snow – and it wasn’t our last rollerski. But it was our last time going as hard [...]

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How do you end a successful rest week?  Go grouse hunting.  It’s harder for me to keep my training down on an easy week than it is to hit big hours on a big week.  The past week was nice and relaxed.  I took advantage of my time “off” to spend more time working at [...]

“Young” is a relative term, of course, which becomes clearer to me with each passing year.  But there are successful cross-country skiers over quite a wide age range, so it might be fun to focus in on some of the younger ones.  They are likely the names we’ll be seeing over and over down the [...] Related posts:

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Mono truly is the annoying person who won't leave the party and is ruining everyone's good time. As much as I'd like to write about something a bit more exciting and, wonder of wonders, something specific to skiing or training, I'm at a loss currently....

Check out our Fort. Helena, Caitlin, Idanias, Brian, Jayden, Shaina.I am settling back in to life in Hayward after Lake Placid and Chicago. This is an important recovery week for me to absorb all the training from the last three weeks. With several af...

Check out our Fort. Helena, Caitlin, Idanias, Brian, Jayden, Shaina.I am settling back in to life in Hayward after Lake Placid and Chicago. This is an important recovery week for me to absorb all the training from the last three weeks. With several af...

The unseasonably beautiful weather during the Lake Placid camp broke hard on Thursday night and the blue skies and warm days turned to the more typical cold, cold October rain.  Our last two workouts in the Adirondacks were a classic sprint simulation on Friday and a long OD run on Saturday.  They were also two [...]

a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torin_Koos" target="_blank"Torin Koos/a came into the shop a couple of times while I was working on his skis in September.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; He brought a camera with him and asked a few questions.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; It was...

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