There’s just too much racing going on during the first half of January to comment on it all. But the first rest day of the Tour de Ski certainly deserves some notes. So here’s a look at the current leaders of the Tour, compared to how they’ve fared in previous years, starting with the men: [...] Related posts:
We've got a crew of 15 skiers up in Rumford this week for US Nationals and we've just finished our last day of prep before the freestyle sprint tomorrow. We spent the morning up at Black Mountain, checking out the course, testing skis, and doing a fin...
Once again, my body proves that recovery requires rest. I’ve been recovering from my surgeries all month and it gets pretty old after a while. It’s hard to be patient sometimes. Recovery seems to come in spurts where some days I don’t feel any be...
The ubiquitous one-handed photoThis season the Methow Valley in Washington has had good snow. It arrived before Thanksgiving and we've had great uninterrupted skiing through the past 7 weeks.For me, the daily skiing typically consists of a...
The first race of the US Nationals Championships is tomorrow (Monday). We race every other day here in Rumford, Maine. There is no natural snow on the ground, but the race organizers have worked hard to make artificial snow and the 1.6km loop we are ...
The Tour de Ski has been a rock 'em-sock 'em set of races so far. In addition to the crazy weather, we've seen an unusual number of crashes, ranging from the meaningless to Kikkan Randall's digger in the classic sprint today. And we've seen some unexpe...
There are so many great things about being home for the holidays. I especially enjoy skiing with the local junior kids and my past coaches, and past Olympians, Leslie Hall and Laura McCabe. It's so much fun to see kids skiing and havin...
Penned for SkiTrax Magazine: Visit SkiTrax HereRiding the cable car up, up, up high into the high Austrian air to the Dachstein Glacier for the first time, I get the feeling Garrison Keillor echoes on his News from Lake Wobegon when he says “All the ...
How unexpected was Teichmann's win in the Oberhof classic pursuit? Unexpected enough that none of the 187 guesses on XC Predictions included ol' Axel for any of the three podium spots. The wisdom of crowds? Of course, who'd have thought Teichmann had ...
Austin, Corky, Hamish & Gino - post TT.Heather Mooney and Noah Hoffman skied away with the victories in this mornings classic time trial at Grafton Ponds. The flat loop, with granular snow turned the TT into a d-pole race. Some who waxed paid the ...
I was skimming FasterSkier’s write-up of the Tour de Ski prologue yesterday and noted their comment about how Liz Stephen “… is generally stronger over longer distances, performing better in 10k’s than 5k’s and even better still in 15k’s.” That has been my informal impression as well, but I was suddenly skeptical about whether her actual [...] Related posts:
It's great that FIS has switched back to calling it the pursuit. And tomorrow is going to be worthy of the name, at least on the women's side.Therese Johaug clawing back 27 seconds is going to be impressive, if it happens, and my guess is that there wi...
I figure that a short post is better than none at all.... so here it is: The Tour de Ski started today. While I had a poor result - by far, my worst "distance race" since being in Europe, I have to happy in that I felt as if I could ski. Ye...
I figure that a short post is better than none at all.... so here it is: The Tour de Ski started today. While I had a poor result - by far, my worst "distance race" since being in Europe, I have to happy in that I felt as if I could ski. Ye...
First of all, I would just like to say that I think hate prologues as much as Tassava loves the Tour de Ski.They play absolutely zero role in the finish of the Tour de Ski, are a waste of a day, and are so massively unpredictable they drive me nuts.Cro...
I love the Tour de Ski - always have (even when it was just a twinkle in Vegard Ulvang's eye), always will (even after Northug reels off five straight wins starting this year). I'm especially jazzed for the 2011-2012 edition, since it's the only ma...
Team USA at the "opening ceremonies/team introduction" for the Tour So.... I haven't said much on my blog yet about the Tour de Ski but here it is - starting TOMORROW! As there is no World Champs or Olympics this year, the Tour is kind of th...
This will just be a short note with similar graphs as last time, only for a few of the major European nations. Men’s Distance Sweden continues to generally improve. Note that in terms of top thirty performances, Norway has steadily declined over the years, but not among the top ten or better level. So they’ve [...] Related posts:
Today we regrouped post-xmas for a timed effort with a strong group of skiers making the rounds up in Craftsbury on a new coat of snow. The hard work of the Craftsbury community is paying off in spades, with families, teams, and recreationa...
This morning we had a good group meet at Grafton for some skate intensity. After a good warm up, we agreed on a 1+ km loop and got in some good intensity/speed work. The first 3 intervals were "on your own" and the last 2 were run more like sprint heat...