Christmas comes to Östersund - but we found winter in Austria!The first week of World Cup competition is completed, and we're already getting things underway here in Hochfilzen for World Cup #2. It's amazing how quickly the season starts to go by onc...
Christian Hoffmann Christopher Tassava chimed in with another request, regarding the news this week about Christian Hoffman’s 6 year suspension. Since I did post looking at who stood to gain if you removed Andrus Veerpalu from past results, he wanted to know what it would look like if we did the same thing with Christian [...] Related posts:
JOSIE!!!! Congratulations for making it into this world and for picking such incredible parents to be raised by! I can't wait to meet you. Congratulations parents:)This blog goes out to my teammate and friend, Sadie Bjornsen, as she got on her first ...
Two more productive days under our belt here in Colorado. On Wednesday we did an easy skate ski in the morning and the weather was awesome - it finally warmed up into the double digits! We took Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning off. We're tra...
This is a belated post about my experiences leading up to my World Cup debut last week in Ostersund, Sweden. Looking out the window… there are men setting up a television camera on a raised platform. They angle it so it will catch racers hammering over the course’s last uphill. Volunteers are unraveling sponsor signs, stretching [...]
A wonderful morning to wake up! After 48 hours of relaxing warm weather after camp, now there is snow to play on in the hills. We took a jaunt up Mad River Glen this morning. Tomorrow and the next day we will be skiing at Craftsb...
Sadie and Erik Bjornsen will be back at home in the Methow Valley for the holidays.While they're at home, they will be putting on a FREE ski clinic for kids.The Cascade Challenge Camp (clicky for camp flyer) will be on Wednesday, Dec 21st, a...
We had a spectacular trip out West, and now we're back to kickin' it in New England. Vermont is not snowy yet, but with several inches forecast and the potential for snowmaking the next few nights, it looks like skiing will be in the cards sooner than ...
Bozeman SuperTour 2011, December 3, 2011 - Bohart Ranch Women's Results - 5K Freestyle1 Kinsey Loan 19 FJ APUNSC &n...
... from my Randall-centric posts lately. Back in the States, Jessie Diggins is killing it on the SuperTour. After seven races at two venues, she's scored 200 points out of a possible 210. Not shabby: classic sprint (West Yellowstone): 1st place/3...
Why isn't someone making a wedge that will click onto a NIS plate, and which has threaded inserts for attaching a Pilot SNS bindings?This seems simple enough. It would allow fore/aft adjustment of the SNS binding, even if it might r...
Men’s Biathlon The US men’s biathlon team had an auspicious start to the season. Lowell Bailey in particular skied some of the best races of his life. Let’s focus on the following three North Americans (click for larger version): Obviously, the shooting statistics for this season are based on only this past weekend’s racing, so [...] Related posts:
Another beautiful, but chilly day in Colorado! Temps were in the single digits for most of the day, but we bundled up and headed out for two workouts today. The older kids did their first hard workout of camp (though arguably every workout has been har...
Well it’s official: World Cups #2 and #3 will be held in Hochfilzen, Austria over the next two weeks. We were slated to head over to Annecy, France for the third WC but they have had an incredibly mild start to the winter there and had to cancel. So Hochfilzen is picking up the slack. [...]
I just returned to "home away from home" hotel Kulm from an exciting, high-paced World Cup weekend in Dusseldorf, Germany. While the weekend's racing format didn't explicitly compliment my skill set it was a great experience and more importantly, I was...
The whole team is back together and we spent the morning classic skiing under beautiful sunny skies at Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby, CO. The younger kids drove down to the lodge, scraped their skis, and headed out, while the older kids skied down from...
Sprint Recap Thanks again to Jan over at WorldOfXC.com (and FIS’s ability to not wreck them, although they tried!) we have the sprint heat times from Saturday. Starting with the women’s semifinals: Semifinal 1 was markedly faster, no? It doesn’t appear that Kikkan suffered for it, but then the Düsseldorf course is unusually short for [...] Related posts:
60 days on the road may seem like a long time but the time is flying by. This is my favorite time of year when all the hardwork of summer finally has a chance to show itself in the races. This year’s new Salomon skis arrived stone ground and ready to go thanks to Nordic Ultratune. My [...]
60 days on the road may seem like a long time but the time is flying by. This is my favorite time of year when all the hardwork of summer finally has a chance to show itself in the races. This year's new Salomon skis arrived stone...
The last days have been a bit of a whirlwind. Packing up the stuff of my life into boxes and moving out of my apartment. Right after this, the racing got under way just on the outskirts of the Yellowstone National Park, the traditional opening spot for...