We've had quite the successful camp. At yesterday's award ceremony Heidi received two medals for one day of ski racing! She was the third junior in both races.Today we headed back out for one more day of racing, though only MK and I were going to jump ...
Kikkan Randall delivered the win in Düsseldorf today, confirming her status both as the best freestyle sprinter in the world and one of the overall best skiers in the World Cup. This is a big "duh," of course. We knew that. Bearing with me for a minute, I'm interested to see who has beaten Kikkan in a more-or-less head-head-to-head way so far this season. Counting the two sprints, the Sjusjøen
It was a good day on the trails up at Bohart today, with cold temperatures in the teens, sunny skies showing off the Bridger Range, and just enough snow to have ski races for the SuperTour weekend.The race format was a little quirky: a 1.5 kilometer sk...
Shawn “Degs” Degroot: Blackjack Legend Congrats to our team mate Shawn for racing to 19th at the BC High School Cross Country Running Provincials! Filed under: Race Updates
It's been hard to find the time to take pictures these past few days, but we had an excellent wrap-up to our time in West Yellowstone, capped by a moonlight ski alongside the Madison River. We took the time to lie down in the snow and feel the world ar...
I'm not that big a fan of the city sprints, but I do like the annual shenanigans in Düsseldorf, which is especially tight and crashy. This year's slightly less interesting because of some big names (Bjørgen, Northug, Jönsson) are sitting out, but ...
FIS WORLD CUP NORDIC CITY SPRINT. December 2, 2011. Dusseldorf, Germany. On the eve of this year’s first, inner-city Nordic World Cup Sprint event, the world’s best cross country skiers have assembled in this beautiful, historic German city. ...
This has been a very special week for me. Yesterday was the first World Cup race of my career; something I’ve been dreaming of and working towards for several years. It was an exciting race in some rather surprising ways, and I promise I’ll write a detailed blog post about it [...]
Hint: The world's top 4 brands of Nordic skis can be found at Cyclova XC, in St. Croix Falls!Question: What does a Toko Wax Clinic, Salomon's Head of Global Nordic Product Development, and a 20% Off XC Ski Clothing Sale have in common?Answe...
Today was our last practice as a team before we head off for fall camp. Tomorrow the second year J2s, J1s and OJs head out to Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby, CO with Sverre and Matt. The J3s and first year J2s follow on Sunday with Poppet and Liz. ...
Podcast Shenanigans So I tune into the FasterSkier podcast tonight during my run, only to hear that I’m apparently the lead topic, by way of Kikkan Randall’s strong classic sprint (and distance) results in Kuusamo. Fair enough. As fun as it would be to turn this into a full on blog war, I actually think [...] Related posts:
Brian Gregg of CXC has well prepared skis.Photo: Ian Harvey / TokoYou've been training to get the most from your skiing, so make sure your skis aren't a limiter.Prepare all of your skis to run their best with a fresh stone grind and hotbox servic...
Well, here is little update from the last couple weeks. Sorry I haven't been great about updateing my blog. But, with the combination of finishing up classes at Alaska Pacific University online and having limited internet access it has been a little ha...
After finishing 5th in my first World Cup sprint of the season, my weekend of racing was far from over. The next day I raced the 10km skate race on one of the toughest courses on the circuit. The weather was super windy which made it hard to ski the fl...
I'm behind on my blog posts but what can I say? My senses have been completely overwhelmed with Swiss scenery, 1k, 2k & 3k man-made loops of snow (this morning we did 30 looks of an 800 meter track) and new varieties of stinky cheese! So fa...
Today we had our last hard practice before heading off to Colorado for fall camp! The first year J2s and J3s did a ~4k skate time trial and got a good hard effort in at that distance, while the second year J2s, J1s, and OJs did L4 4 x 4s. It was a co...
There are three separate and unconnected manmade loops of skiing in town that are each not much over a kilometer in length. It’s okay for intervals and shorter days of skiing but can get boring for longer distance days. Yesterday we decided to drive to Pontresina, Switzerland a town near St. Moritz where there was [...]
Finishing things off in Finland. The shape is starting to come around. Next stop- Davos!
On my way to 48th in the 10km Skate in Kuusamo Finland