The long drive from Switzerland to Rogla went pretty smooth. It took us pretty much all day but as we left the mountains we also escaped the snow. We are staying at the top of the mountain at the resort in Rogla. The road up the mount...
Thats right, I just spent a week in Switzerland. In one of the most beautiful towns I've been in, Fuetersoy. It was a really fun time, we had four days before our races and our goal was to ski a lot of kilometers to keep up our training. This is a grea...
What a day! New England came to play yesterday and took 5 of 6 golds and 12 of 18 possible podiums to tally up an impressive 446 Alaska Cup points. Our nearest competition right now are the Rocky and Midwest teams - they skied very well yes...
Not only is March Championship month, we often have our best skiing of the year and the sun is getting warmer!This morning, our group that is here worked on striding technique and then did some classic intervals.I have a theory that if you lose one of ...
This is in retrospect mainly because I was too busy experiencing our ridiculously plush and vacationlike hotel to write a blog. Using the word ‘retrospect’ may imply that I am ponderously recalling the trip, perhaps coming to some grand and insigh...
Henry Harmeyer followed by Ben Hegman: Gold and Silver. Photo by: Bill Harmeyer.Mansfield Nordic Club athletes win 2 Junior National Championships, and a Silver!!Competing yesterday in Utah, Henry Harmeyer won the classical sprint championship in the J...
One of the coolest ski races in the game has to be Swedish Vasaloppet. The track starts in the village of Salen and ends downtown in the streets of Mora, 90 kilometers away. This ultra-marathon is based on the ski trek Gustav Vasa took in the 16th Cent...
Day 1 at the US Junior Nationals in Soldier Hollow – Classic Sprint. Julien was the lone qualifier today as Blackjack got our first taste of American racing this year on a short, hard 1.3k loop. Nick, Peter, and David all narrowly missed qualifyi...
Today kicked off the first day of racing here at Junior Nationals. The morning cold gave way to the warm western sun and it was game on !Peter about to start his heatLeading the way not only for R.N.R but Mid-A were Peter 20th and Tommy 22nd who both ...
I haven't gotten many details on the day, but congratulations go out to the whole team for qualifying, and to Hans for skiing through the heats and racing to 6th place in the country for OJ Boys! More details and hopefully photos to come!
The two Festival Masterminds: Sue Wemyss & Abby WeissmanWow, what a fun time we had at the BKL Festival at Great Glen! The venue was perfect, the snow was great, and we loved the trails. We want to go back! So thanks to everyone (and there are A...
Hans Halvorsen set the bar high with a 2nd place in qualifying. He was just under 1.5 seconds out of the win, and will look to ski some awesome heats this afternoon.Unofficial results are beaming in over the interwebs, and summit timing shows GMVS skie...
Let’s check in on where we’re at with Kikkan Randall and Devon Kershaw’s World Cup points situations. First, Kershaw: I finally figured out a decently efficient way to track WC points during a season, that requires only a minimal amount of data entry by hand. Cologna’s going to walk away with this one, obviously, but [...] Related posts:
Yesterday the New England team spent the day testing skis, previewing the sprint course, and getting individualized pre-race workouts in. As you can see from the photos, it was another gorgeous day - clear blue skies and temps in the upper 30s/lo...
The BlackJack team just arrived in Soldier Hollow for the U.S. Junior Nationals. The team was out training and trying the course for the classic sprints tomorrow. Photos courtesy of Peter Locke Filed under: Race Updates
As a full time athlete it often feels like you have copious amounts of time on your hands. (and somehow… no free time at all?) You have to fill this void. You have to find creative ways to do nothing. So that ONE, your brain won’t turn to mush… and TWO, you’ll also actually get [...]
Good day for the Americans here in Feutersoey, Switzerland. As the men waited for the start command we were able to watch Becca (APU) take the win. Erik Bjornsen led the day for the US men finishing a strong second place to World Cup vetera...
With all them old folks down in Utah for the US Junior Nationals, there were only a couple of us left to attend Black Jack’s own Kootenay cup and Loppet this past weekend. Many of the young Jackrabbits came out though, and made up for the lacking...
With the US Junior Nationals less than a week away, Team Black Jack spent some time in Sun Valley to acclimatize to the altitude and put in some good quality training. With amazing skiing at Lake Creek, the Sun Valley trails and the route up to Galena,...