Since I was pondering Marcus Hellner’s season just the other day, I thought I’d take a closer look at how his result tend to shift over the course of a season. He has struggled during the later parts of this season, but has that been true before in general? Here are his results in distance [...] Related posts:
I like to describe biathlon as an emotional rollercoaster. For athletes, the highs are very intense and the lows can feel devastating as we seek to have the “perfect race.” I rarely come close. Many different pieces must come together on the same day. I lucked out on a special day in [...]
After a four week training block rotating intensity every other day, it's finally time to get back on the plane and head to the last races of the season. I'm going first to Quebec to compete in the skate sprint and 15km skate race of Canadian National ...
Tomorrow is Day 1 of the EurOPA Finals mini tour here in Toblach with a 3.3km Prologue. Mostly racing and not much training these last few weeks of the season. We are in Toblach which has been an annual host to World Cups for the past few years. ...
Stratton Mountain School is starting an Elite Team and has hired Gus Kaeding to coach the program. Our Elite Team will work closely with the Stratton Mountain School nordic team and help out with the local youth skiers. SMS nordic program director Sver...
It's hard to believe its already been 3 weeks since touching down from our Scandinavia trip and representing the U.S.A. in Estonia in the National Junior (under 18) championships. Athletes have since returned home to their respect...
Thanks to Michael Cobb (Austin & Alex's dad) and Jeanne Pastore (Gino's mom) for taking great photos of the whole New England team out in Utah! Click here to find a bunch more photos from JNs.
Made it into the Adirondack Daily Enterprise! Check it out. www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com
Team New England and the SMS racers at Junior Nationals finished the week on a high note with some awesome classic racing and a lot of really strong performances in Saturday's relay event. As most everyone knows now, New England successfully defe...
Last week I spent in Rogla, Slovenia. This trip to Europe I have gotten to experience a lot of new countries and this was one of them. We stayed in a small resort town on the top of a mountain, a little different then most ski resorts in the U.S. where...
After a hectic, long travel day I (and all my belongings!) made it to Bozeman. You know… super simple. Because getting anywhere from Lake Placid is… painless? Just a 2+ hour drive to Albany, a 30 minute prop plane flight to Boston… One heck of a time in Boston. (you have to change terminals? by [...]
I’ve commented on this before, but here’s a slightly more comprehensive look at the historical record. Here is a plot showing Kikkan Randall’s World Cup sprint results as well as those for any other American woman: Note the handful of top twenties just this season, and there’s certainly more results clustered around 30th or so, [...] Related posts:
GMVS is once again offering it's two popular summer ski camps and opening group training throughout the summer. Based in Waitsfield, Vermont, the camps kick off the summer training season for GMVS athletes, which meet for 3 day “mini-camps” e...
Originally I had planned on not racing the 30km classic race in Rogla, but I have been feeling good and I felt it was just too good an opportunity. The pack was huge and almost everyone was together at 5km. It is a bit surprising to feel go...
My first trip to Europe as a ski racer I came to Slovenia for the U23 World Championships in 2006. I didn't really know much about U23 and World Juniors and actually found out that I qualified for the championshipis by an email that I thought was...
Pippin (above) and Tess (below) just returned from the New England J2 Championships that were held in Rumford.The J2 Champs pits teams from the East along with some guests from the Midwest and West. Each State team is allowed to bring 20 boys and 20 gi...
When you spend the vast majority of your time in pursuit of athletic success you're bound to get pretty involved in the process. For the past two years Alison and I have talked each others' ears off about running, skiing, and endurance training and pre...
It struck me glancing at the results last weekend that I feel like Sweden has been having a bit of a sub-par year. Which might seem a little strange, given Johan Olsson’s recent return to form, but hear me out. Certainly, they’ve had some skiers with some great results. But I feel like overall they’ve [...] Related posts:
On Saturday, we took the kids who were not at JN's or J2's and went to Bretton Woods to ski in the 1/2 marathon. It was a beautiful day and a spectacular setting with the famed Mt Washington Hotel sitting below the Presidential Range.Waxing was a bit t...