Almost done with the series now, just the sprinters who struggled the most this season, starting with the men: This list is notable for a few reasons, first because of the large number of big names on it. Usually there are at least of few people my metrics pick out that I don’t really know, [...] Related posts:
A Compilation of My Observations: Some More Factual Than Others Public transportation; what?! Seriously though how cool are trains? Hello country mouse this is awesome! Looking lost and ambivalent, totally in! Finally a place where my face (which is stuck in a constant state of awe and confusion) does not make me stick out. People [...]
Today was our first day back to school & training after our two week spring break! Everyone seems to be rested, healthy, and refreshed and it was a smiling and chatty bunch at practice today. This morning during our morning training blo...
Today was our first day back to school & training after our two week spring break! Everyone seems to be rested, healthy, and refreshed and it was a smiling and chatty bunch at practice today. This morning during our morning training blo...
Moving right along to the most improved women’s sprinter (at least, according to the metric laid out in this post). Here’s the collection: As usual, you can click on it for a slightly larger version. Once again, I think we’re seeing that North America had a pretty across the board incredible year in sprinting, with [...] Related posts:
The SMS Elite Team got together today for a 1:45 run followed by lunch and a planning meeting with Gus. It was great to get everyone together and we are looking forward to working with them this year. The group officially starts in mid June and they wi...
To catch my breath. To finally move out of this past season and into the next we need to reset. The best way I can do that is to gallivant around. (Oh boy I do love to gallivant) To go “home-home” back to Wisconsin. To see my family. Clear my mind. This way when we [...]
Now we’ll finish up this series with the sprinters, starting with the most improved men. The methodology is simpler here, as we really only need to use finishing place as a metric (although we will still scale improvements so that, say, improving from 40th to 20th isn’t seen as a dramatically larger improvement than from [...] Related posts:
The Twentymile River valley has lots of great terrain for crust skiing, and a couple of cool lakes to explore. But it can be finicky. Often times, when enough melting has occurred to create crust, the alders have started popping up, or the section near the road has turned to swamp. You need a lot [...]
I got an interesting question from a reader the other day that I though I’d follow up on: As you know, the winners of all the continental cups gets to start the World Cup season. There are also intermediate rankings during the season that allows the current continental cup leaders to join the WC’s. My [...] Related posts:
We have had an incredible crust skiing season here in South Central Alaska. A record-breaking amount of snow, followed by a lots of sunshine and freeze-thaw cycles during April and early May. You couldn’t have dreamed up a better crust recipe. Nearly every crust skiing hotspot was in-season starting in the beginning of April, and [...]
Last in the sequence of related posts covering distance events, the most un-improved women from this season: As always, you can click through for a slightly larger version. The Slovakian Prochazkova takes the cake here with what looks like a small set of somewhat mediocre results after two fairly strong seasons. The small number of [...] Related posts:
The 2012 ski season came to a close with the 50km National Championships in Craftsbury, Vermont. The organizing committee and hosts, the Craftsbury Outdoor Center did an amazing job making the event happen. When we arrived in Vermont we wer...
Hi Everyone, sorry this has taken a couple days to get an update to you all. I'm back in Alaska, trying to get caught back up on my school work. I haven't been to a race in Vermont since I was younger racing the Bill Koch Festival. The east coast ...
Under sunny skies and in temperature up to the 20′s, Black Jack put everything on the line for the 2012 Haywood National Championships in Mont St Anne, Quebec. Club members Rebecca Reid and Geoffrey Richards lead the charge, both taking several t...
Inspired by a little late-season snowfall and the visit of our friend Luke from Williamstown, we decided to hike up Sugarbush and ski down the one remaining trail with snow. We packed into the van and drove up to South to see if there was any powder to...
These are definitely less pleasant posts to write, but part of any season assessment should include what went wrong as well as what went right. Once again, you can refer to my initial post in this series for an explanation of the general methodology. That said, here’s the twelve men who took the biggest slide [...] Related posts:
Stratton Mountain School is adding an Elite Team this year. Gus Kaeding, an SMS alum who has been coaching with CXC the past two years, will coach this group. The group will work closely with the Stratton Mountain School team as well as the loca...
Red Bull Holmenkollen 2012. Bettina gets some serious screentime, skiing through the rounds and onto the podium. Norway's national broadcaster NRK1 showed this whole event live.Bjorn Lind speaking in Swedish about how to go fast on the classic skis. Pe...
The end of the season had rolled its way in …But I was still stuck waiting for that sigh of relief to really settle itself. That feeling of absolute done-ness. What better way to really ring in the end of the season than Spring Series? So that was it! I proclaimed to the sliders… I [...]