A commenter asked about whether I could take the data from this post and look at trends over time. The answer, of course, if yes! The statistic of interest here is median absolute deviation (MAD), which is a measure of variability. In this case, we’re calculating a MAD value for each skier and each season [...] Related posts:
The team is currently in a volume portion of the training cycle, with an increase in rollerskiing, and we are maintaining fairly high intensity this week.br /br /Monday PM: Skate ski , "Valley Loop" backwards = a hilly 20-29km.br /br /Tuesday AM: bike....
It’s coming in on almost a week now that I’ve been training in Lake Placid with the USST’s last dryland camp of the year. Things started off big last Friday with the Whiteface Hillclimb, a brutal reminder of how much rollerskiing in general sucks and also 45 minute uphills on bumpy pavement against 50mph headwinds. [...]
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divDave writes:br /br /We took The Ski up to the Birkie trail recently as part of Vakava’s annual fall training camp – we figured that it deserved a trip to the Holy Land after being liberated from the dark clutches of Peter’s Cheaters. (For those of you who aren’t quite up to date on this, The Ski is the trophy from the team competition of the Minnesota Skinnyski Series – it’s been going back and forth between Vakava and Peter’s collection of mercenaries, and the 2010 competition saw The Ski come back to its rightful owners, namely us.)br //divimg style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 201px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527355491656614178" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hvZteNu0E40/TLUciNN_QSI/AAAAAAAAAKs/onzSlO2oGYg/s320/2010VakavaFallCamp.JPG" /br /Vakava has been doing a fall camp in the Hayward area since 2004, and we’ve done it in the sun, the rain, and even a dusting of snow, with weather ranging from lousy to beautiful. This one would have to be rated spectacular – gorgeous fall foliage, sunny, no wind, and perfect roller ski temperatures. The cold weather can hold off for another month – I’m still enjoying the Indian summer.br /br /We pole-hiked the Birkie trail Friday afternoon, roller skied (classic intervals and video-recording) near OO Saturday morning, roller skied some more (including a bunch of specific strength and sprints) Saturday afternoon, and then did our 50K skate (with fast pickups) Sunday morning. The 50K in particular was under perfect conditions – roller skiing from Cable to Drummond and back on beautiful, winding, rolling roads through the north woods – kind of like the Birkie trail but on roller skis.br /br /Then after the hard work, it was time to relax, watch ski videos, eat great food (thanks again, Michele), drink great beer (including home-brew from Angie and Kevin), and, of course, enjoy great company with the Vakava Team. All together, a big, excellent weekend, with lots of good training and lots of fun.br /br /Now, we have our next set of roller ski time trials this coming week; we’re gradually bumping up the intensity and specificity of our training; and it won’t be long before the snow flies and we’re out skiing on the real stuff.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1572647974447867713-3168774299430413038?l=vakavaraceteam.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Brought back from Afghanistan a simple full body punishing workout.Currently I am doing this one time per week to remind myself of Afghanistan.Unfortunately although it still is done mostly at O'Dark hundred the 80degree heat and wafting acrid fumes fr...
Brought back from Afghanistan a simple full body punishing workout.Currently I am doing this one time per week to remind myself of Afghanistan.Unfortunately although it still is done mostly at O'Dark hundred the 80degree heat and wafting acrid fumes fr...
Brought back from Afghanistan a simple full body punishing workout.Currently I am doing this one time per week to remind myself of Afghanistan.Unfortunately although it still is done mostly at O'Dark hundred the 80degree heat and wafting acrid fumes fr...
Brought back from Afghanistan a simple full body punishing workout.Currently I am doing this one time per week to remind myself of Afghanistan.Unfortunately although it still is done mostly at O'Dark hundred the 80degree heat and wafting acrid fumes fr...
Brought back from Afghanistan a simple full body punishing workout.Currently I am doing this one time per week to remind myself of Afghanistan.Unfortunately although it still is done mostly at O'Dark hundred the 80degree heat and wafting acrid fumes fr...
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Yesterday was 10/10/10, and the date of a “global work party” for climate change, organized by 350.org. The idea was for people all over the world to do something productive to help negate climate change, while at the same time raising further awareness of the idea of 350–that is that 350 parts per million is [...]
div style="text-align: center;"br //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNThyDypQI/AAAAAAAAAb8/di7vJrGN0XQ/s1600/DSC06001.JPG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNThyDypQI/AAAAAAAAAb8/di7vJrGN0XQ/s320/DSC06001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526853007552193794" //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Hiking above Anchorage/span/divFor the past couple of weeks we have been in our transition stage here in Anchorage, where its cold enough to snow, but it just isn't quite ready yet. We have made bets on our team when there is going to be enough snow to ski up at Hatchers Pass, and I have my money on Saturday. The precipitation is coming, and the temperatures are low enough... so its on its way! divdivbr //divdiva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNVhpQOeBI/AAAAAAAAAck/sIWgyAQH8sU/s1600/DSC06017.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNVhpQOeBI/AAAAAAAAAck/sIWgyAQH8sU/s320/DSC06017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526855204211685394" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 177px; " //a/divdivI suffered from a knee injury all summer that stuck around and continued to cause problems throughout the early part of the fall. Skate skiing is finally back to 100%, so I have been putting in some hard uphill skate intervals, trying to get the legs back in the grove of skating. I haven't felt the skating butt burn in a while, so I have been loving every minute of the intervals lately.! Running was also causing lots of issues, so one day when I was super excited I started mindlessly skipping down the road. After a couple of minutes, I started thinking and realized it wasn't hurting my knee. So the past month and a half I have taken up skipping... which gets lots of funny reactions when I am passing people.! Especially when I am out on the trails, because not only am I skipping, but I am also singing to warn the bears I am coming. Let me tell you, it is a sight to see. Fortunately, I have been able to shift back to running- so I am not making such a scene trekking through the woods./divdivbr //divdiva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUn0KuvhI/AAAAAAAAAcU/CANWu-XrblU/s1600/DSC06015.JPG"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUn0KuvhI/AAAAAAAAAcU/CANWu-XrblU/s320/DSC06015.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526854210709011986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " //a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Sweet view of Anchorage- Ky Eiben has MAD hops!/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/divdivAPU has this weekly workout that we run/ski-bound 1 hour uphill from a ski area down in town up to the mountains. The gas line trail cuts right through "bear country" central, so every 1 hr. pass up this trail I am counting my blessings for making it up without being chomped. As I get over my bear fears, this has become one of my favorite training workouts of the year. You just turn you engine on, and brain off- similar to racing./divdiv style="text-align: left;"br //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNT5ZPjTkI/AAAAAAAAAcE/zJAr_eFdNms/s1600/DSC06009.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNT5ZPjTkI/AAAAAAAAAcE/zJAr_eFdNms/s320/DSC06009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526853413207494210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Making it to snow yesterday!/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUI1WzWGI/AAAAAAAAAcM/CxfzwLMiAP0/s1600/DSC06010.JPG"img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUI1WzWGI/AAAAAAAAAcM/CxfzwLMiAP0/s320/DSC06010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526853678452136034" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "Powerline Pass snowed in!!/span/divdiv style="text-align: left;"School has been consuming all of my hours that I am not out training. I have managed to make friends with the library again- I did actually miss that last year! The schooling here at APU is great, I now understand what "active" learning really is. Each of my classes has between 4-8 people in it, so there is lots of focus on the students as well as real world application, rather than just learning the text book. There is no lack of challenge, but a much different focus then UAA for example. I much prefer this over public, state universities!br //divdivbr //divdiv6 more weeks until we take off for our first racing series in West Yellowstone, the focus is on! Let it snow, let it snow, let it SNOW!/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2018521813175454198-2894504036712055577?l=sadiebjornsen.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
div style="text-align: center;"br //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNThyDypQI/AAAAAAAAAb8/di7vJrGN0XQ/s1600/DSC06001.JPG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNThyDypQI/AAAAAAAAAb8/di7vJrGN0XQ/s320/DSC06001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526853007552193794" //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Hiking above Anchorage/span/divFor the past couple of weeks we have been in our transition stage here in Anchorage, where its cold enough to snow, but it just isn't quite ready yet. We have made bets on our team when there is going to be enough snow to ski up at Hatchers Pass, and I have my money on Saturday. The precipitation is coming, and the temperatures are low enough... so its on its way! divdivbr //divdiva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNVhpQOeBI/AAAAAAAAAck/sIWgyAQH8sU/s1600/DSC06017.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNVhpQOeBI/AAAAAAAAAck/sIWgyAQH8sU/s320/DSC06017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526855204211685394" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 177px; " //a/divdivI suffered from a knee injury all summer that stuck around and continued to cause problems throughout the early part of the fall. Skate skiing is finally back to 100%, so I have been putting in some hard uphill skate intervals, trying to get the legs back in the grove of skating. I haven't felt the skating butt burn in a while, so I have been loving every minute of the intervals lately.! Running was also causing lots of issues, so one day when I was super excited I started mindlessly skipping down the road. After a couple of minutes, I started thinking and realized it wasn't hurting my knee. So the past month and a half I have taken up skipping... which gets lots of funny reactions when I am passing people.! Especially when I am out on the trails, because not only am I skipping, but I am also singing to warn the bears I am coming. Let me tell you, it is a sight to see. Fortunately, I have been able to shift back to running- so I am not making such a scene trekking through the woods./divdivbr //divdiva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUn0KuvhI/AAAAAAAAAcU/CANWu-XrblU/s1600/DSC06015.JPG"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUn0KuvhI/AAAAAAAAAcU/CANWu-XrblU/s320/DSC06015.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526854210709011986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " //a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Sweet view of Anchorage- Ky Eiben has MAD hops!/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/divdivAPU has this weekly workout that we run/ski-bound 1 hour uphill from a ski area down in town up to the mountains. The gas line trail cuts right through "bear country" central, so every 1 hr. pass up this trail I am counting my blessings for making it up without being chomped. As I get over my bear fears, this has become one of my favorite training workouts of the year. You just turn you engine on, and brain off- similar to racing./divdiv style="text-align: left;"br //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNT5ZPjTkI/AAAAAAAAAcE/zJAr_eFdNms/s1600/DSC06009.JPG"img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNT5ZPjTkI/AAAAAAAAAcE/zJAr_eFdNms/s320/DSC06009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526853413207494210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Making it to snow yesterday!/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"br //span/diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUI1WzWGI/AAAAAAAAAcM/CxfzwLMiAP0/s1600/DSC06010.JPG"img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l4L_01UOs1s/TLNUI1WzWGI/AAAAAAAAAcM/CxfzwLMiAP0/s320/DSC06010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526853678452136034" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "Powerline Pass snowed in!!/span/divdiv style="text-align: left;"School has been consuming all of my hours that I am not out training. I have managed to make friends with the library again- I did actually miss that last year! The schooling here at APU is great, I now understand what "active" learning really is. Each of my classes has between 4-8 people in it, so there is lots of focus on the students as well as real world application, rather than just learning the text book. There is no lack of challenge, but a much different focus then UAA for example. I much prefer this over public, state universities!br //divdivbr //divdiv6 more weeks until we take off for our first racing series in West Yellowstone, the focus is on! Let it snow, let it snow, let it SNOW!/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2018521813175454198-2894504036712055577?l=sadiebjornsen.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
Another guessing game, this one based on a misunderstanding of a previous one. This time, I’ve graphed FIS points vs. date for five skiers up to an Olympic race where they will all race against each other and finish in the top five. Your job is to identify the medalists and for bonus points the [...] Related posts:
. . .to Placid Lake, Wisconsin. Great to be back home after a solid 3 week training camp. After 22 hours in the van, it felt good to wake up at home this morning to a spectacular sunrise.
Clear and windy day for the Whiteface time trial. 5 miles, all uphill. Oh, yeah. The women’s field was much smaller than the men’s, but still included the fastest women in the country. Things were a pretty tight in the men’s pack, especially off the start. Tad Elliott (two l’s, two t’s — gotta love the double letters), [...]