As school and spring sports draw to a close, our MNC training group is growing. We are up to 37 athletes registered for summer training - and we've already been meeting 1-3x / week for the past 5 weeks.Summer Training Schedules:Please use this weblog a...
As often happens, FasterSkier gifted me with a handy topic for a few posts to kill time with over the summer by publishing a summary of USSA’s new criteria for automatic qualification for WJCs/U23s. For WJCs, the FIS point cutoff has been lowered to 50 for both men and women (it used to be higher [...] Related posts:Post-WJC/U23 Development: Canada North American Race Penalties Over Time Predicting FIS Points For World Cup Races
Today we had our first summer session -- it is so nice to be in the laid back summer zone.Ian Moore, Devlin and Kaitlin took on the 800m uphill test (which might be 810m after review:)We took a swim in the Mad and I made a fun video to get ya all smili...
Amy and I left home Saturday morning, flew out of JFK in the afternoon, arrived in Oslo Sunday morning, took a train to Lillehammer, picked up a Madshus race service vehicle from Per Wiik, and drove to Sognefjell (about three hours) in time for afternoon training. If you think that sentence was long, just imagine [...]
Summer is almost here! Yesterday we had our last day of classes and final exams are Monday through Wednesday next week. We've gotten in a solid week of training and dodged some sporadic rain showers on our way through the week. ...
My monthly post about June is up on XC Ski Girl's website. Check it out here if you're interested:http://www.xcskigirl04.blogspot.com/Also, I was finally able to put my classic max test on youtube if you want to witness some of the pain I experie...
This is just a quick note as I sift through some of the alpine skiing data. I’ve made similar plots as these for XC skiing in the past, so these are just the same idea but for the US alpine folks. First a look at the men: This is tracking the results (per race) for [...] Related posts:
This is just a quick note as I sift through some of the alpine skiing data. I’ve made similar plots as these for XC skiing in the past, so these are just the same idea but for the US alpine folks. First a look at the men: This is tracking the results (per race) for [...] Related posts:
6/11 - Monday:9am 800m Plunkton Test. Strength.PM Recovery jog and swim6/13 - Wednesday:2pm Bike/Run (hike) adventure. Distance.6/14 - Thursday:9am 5/10km skate tt on East Warren/Plunkton roadsA little update on training dates over the summer -- I will...
Overcome the Obstacles and Achieve Your PotentialCross-Country skiing is more of a calling than a sport, and nowhere is that more obvious than in Andy Liebner's skiing memoir “Wild Shot.” The book chronicles a period in Liebner's life when he deci...
The last two and a half weeks have been (another) whirl-wind of travel, training, testing & visits. Here it is, in pictures: After a red-eye flight and (three) airplanes to get from ANC to SLC for my first round of US Ski Team testing I ...
Everyone wants to nab podiums at the World Cup level, which means everyone can be pretty fascinated with the development characteristics of those skiers who end up on the podium. Here’s yet another way to slice that. If we take the skiers who’ve attained at least one podium result at the WC level between 2006-2007 [...] Related posts:
“22 going on 80: A Whole Lot of Ways Biathlon has Made Me an Old Lady” I have a bed time. And it is early… like… ’10pm is hours past it’ sort of early. All my injuries are related to falling down. I get cranky if I miss my afternoon nap. Velcro waist bands. I [...]
This spring is perhaps my busiest ever, largely due to that wedding thing in two weeks... Alison and I have been steadily tying down plans and getting things ready for the ~200 people who will converge in my parents' back yard for our union. Should be ...
Team celebrating the years with Hans and Kaitlin.Amazing last weeks of school with rafting, celebration, and some nice weather to boot.Looking forward to a super summer of training and on to ski season 2013!There are a few more spots available for summ...
Reynolds, Sylvan, and Patty O.With summer arriving in VT this week, it's hard to believe there is still full winter in Bend, OR.But it's true. I've spent the last 12 days skiing every morning up on Mt. Bachelor, about 30 minutes up into the Casca...
It seems to me that spring is really comprised of at least 3 very short sub-seasons. In a period of about 3 weeks Craftsbury went from cold and gray and leafless, through that brief neon green leaf-springing, and into a sudden early summer. It was ...
It has been a long time since Minneapolis felt like winter, but believe it or no there is plenty of snow still around out West. After enjoying a wonderful warm spring, I returned to my home state of Washington to find some late season snow and sk...
Writing a three-part article for Skierpost.com, I came across this from a notebook of Greg Lemond's. Talk about setting some no-hold's barred goals. The man definitely had something going on! It's pretty amazing to get a glimpse like this into America...