Campus lit up again on Thursday as skiers came back to school. Thursday AM started out with a distance DP workout from school, and Thursday PM we jogged over to Pine Hill for a an exceptional speed workout: Grass Skiing 10/19/12 from Gould...More »
Last Spring Dan Josephson sent me some skis for grinding, including a pair of Nikki Caulfield’s skis. There was also an email making note of some gouges on Nikki’s skis, and a note saying “Don’t worry about these too much, they were made by a hatchet.” Well, I had to ask for the story behind [...]
I traveled with teammate Tad Elliott from Park City to Canmore, Alberta, Canada today. Because of our limited budget, we didn’t have the best itinerary. We flew from Salt Lake City to Phoenix, Arizona. We got nice views of the Grand Canyon: … Continue reading →
We’ve got a small shipment of scraper sharpeners in the shop. I tend to get excited by simple, high quality tools, and this thing makes the grade. It’s absurdly expensive, at $70, but it’s one of the tools I value most highly. A sharp, clean plastic scraper is the key good and fast waxing. You [...]
We took advantage of the nice warm weather today for our classic easy distance ski. Most of the boys skied from the iron bridge near Jamaica up through Wardsboro to Stratton, while the girls started below Stratton and skied down to Wardsboro...
The last fifteen days I've been training and living in Park City, Utah with the U.S. Ski Team. It has probably been the best camp I've had this year. The weather and training venue has been a really nice change, not that I don't love the Anchorage hurr...
Well, ok, not ever. Just over the past 20 seasons or so. There are all sorts of different ways we could measure this. First, some ground rules: I’m only going to look at actual World Cup races, no Olympics or World Championships. I’m also excluding Tour de Ski events because these are my rules, so [...] Related posts:
Ramsau am Dachstein in PicturesFor the second year in a row, I'm spending the last weeks of October with Team Sjusjoen in the Austrian mountain town of Ramsau. It's a tiny town about a half-hour outside Salzburg, Austria (think Mozart's hometown), but ...
This morning I went on a three hour run with my teammates Simi Hamilton, Andy Newell, and Tad Elliott as well as Alaska Pacific University skier Pete Kling and Stratton Mountain School’s Erik Packer. We took it easy and chatted … Continue reading →
This evening Mike Engel, a very generous US Ski Team supporter, hosted a fundraiser to give Nordic enthusiasts a chance to show their support for the US Cross Country Ski Team. My teammate Kikkan Randall brought her world cup sprint … Continue reading →
Taking the Time to frame 'Team' with T1/2 athletesKids are so ready to take an active part in sharing their ideas, in creating a team, in owning what its going to be about - when you give them the chance to contribute and put their ideas at the centre,...
Today I did my first intensity session on snow since the spring. It was a 4 x 6 minute zone 3 classic workout with some sprints at the end. It felt so good to do something fast on snow! The snow is so much more forgiving then rollerskiing on pavement (...
After a tough day yesterday (specific strength in the morning, bounding intervals and strength in the pm) today was a great day for a skate cruise. We split into 3 groups and worked on technique combined with a distance ski. Nice day eh...
Last week I took some video for a few skiers at different practices so they can take a look at themselves on film. Each clip is fairly long and there's no fancy Matt Boobar editing, so probably not as entertaining as other videos you see on the b...
As promised from last time, here we have the detailed development plots for sprinting. First the men: And the women: As before, these are big, so click on them for the full versions. Also, remember that if you don’t see a line indicating one of the events, that’s because two or more events happened at [...] Related posts:
This morning the US Ski Team did a classic roller ski speed session (10 to 15 seconds as fast as possible) down at Soldier Hollow (the roller ski track at the 2002 Olympic venue.) There were three stations of speeds, … Continue reading →
The scene at the “Singletrack Shootdown” Photo: Judy Geer A week ago, we hosted a biathlon race at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center as part of our Oktoberfest celebrations. The event included a beginners’s pre-race shooting safety clinic and featured separate races for beginners and for experienced biathletes. Additionally, participants could chose to either compete running [...]
Most of the athletes at the US Ski Team camp had the day off of training today. I went down to Salt Lake this morning to hang out with some friends, Sarah MacCarthy and Tegan Troutner. This afternoon we organized … Continue reading →
The countdown has truly begun.... in just a short 29 days I will be headed on another 30-hour travel to Europe to kick off the 2012-2013 ski season. With less than a month to go, nerves and excitement are starting to brew in my belly and the anticipati...