The people of Mammoth Lakes, California really know how to plum tucker you right out. From the moment I stepped onto the tarmac until I collapsed back into that airplane seat 5 days later we were on the move. Go go go! Every night sinking into bed only to be jolted from sleep 8 hours [...]
Here's a video from yesterday with a combination of the top skiers and the GMVS athletes and alums. Nice work out there!
Just to follow up on a few tweets over the weekend… Skiers from 10 different nations had podium results in men’s events, and only women from 7 different nations did the same. The nations with the most podiums are in stark contrast. For both the men and women, you of course have Norway in the [...] Related posts:
From our earliest years, we all have some memories etched in our minds from the time we spent with our parents. Many of mine are from the family-vacation and kinestetic variety: like the annual summer roadtrip back to Minnesota, five tight in the 1965 ...
The final few weeks of the ski racing season are mostly racing with not much training. With 8 races over 16 days the goal is to rest and recover. Usually we don't get much opportunity to explore the places we travel to for races but with a ...
The briefest of notes about today's 15km CL mass start: woof. I was pretty tired coming into the race after four starts in the last five days, and definitely felt the fatigue in my legs at the start line. Because of yesterday's finish I was seeded 8th ...
It was a tough day out there at Spring Series, with slushy snow and rain making kick difficult and glide slow. The skiers in the men's race looked like they had already skied 15 km after the first 2.5 km lap, and the women's field strung out almost imm...
SMS alums & cousins Anya and Sophie.We have had the first two races of the Super Tour Finals at Craftsbury. Competiton has been stiff, with a field that is stronger than the one at US Sr. Nationals. Consider the fact that we have 6 women and 5 men ...
We've only had one day of Spring Series and it has already been a ton of fun! This is the strongest field we have skied in this year—better than US Nationals, better than West Yellowstone and Bozeman in November—and there is no lack of inspiration ...
This morning was the 3km prologue of ST Finals in Craftsbury, VT. The organizers here have done an astounding job of preparing this course despite record high temps in the 70s all last week. The weather is starting to turn now and it got just cold enou...
It's late March and the end of the ski season is upon us. After racing (or cheering) in Italy Brian and I flew straight into Burlington, Vermont. We stayed with our (new) friends Tom and Anna in Burlington and reminisce about Minnesota before h...
Craftsbury still has snow! And believe it or not, we're racing tomorrow. Here's an update from trailside...Racing gets underway tomorrow with a 3.3 km prologue skate race. Should be sweet!
Last week I was in Mont Ste Anne, Quebec for some races at Canadian National Championships. I primarily wanted to focus on the skate sprint as I knew the Canadian National Team guys would be home from Europe and their recent successes and corresponding...
Earlier this week I tweeted a little nugget I stumbled across: that Jessie Diggins now owns around half of all top 30 results for US skiers 21 years old or younger over the past two decades. In contrast, the most any single Norwegian contributes over the same time period is around 10% of all their [...] Related posts:Best Young Sprint Skiers: 2009-2010 Should Jessie Diggins Be On The A-Team? Is Sprinting A Young Person’s Game?
Once again, sorry for the delay in posting. I suppose I've been busy hopping time zones, countries and racing scenes. Surprise, surprise, racing takes it out of you and add some intense travel on top of that plus the new-found 75 degree heat that...
It was another warm day and there were large crowds for the mens and womens open sprint races today. Alex Harvey is a hero in Quebec and with the whole Canadian team racing along with top skiers from the US, Norway (including last years WJC winner), Fr...
Yet another gorgeous day in Mont Sainte Anne! The temperature in the van when we got in to go home at the end of the day read 68F! We had the junior and juvenile sprint races today, starting with the prelim in the morning, and had both Kate...
The calm of the post season has started to settle in, I’m doing my best to leisurely do nothing… sort of. So far Bozeman has given me a little spring break that is just how I remembered. Sunny and 60, shorts, sandals… only to wake up to 6 inches of snow in town and word [...]