The Norwegian women’s team ended their recent training camp at Kvitfjell with an 8-kilometer uphill rollerski time-trial. Ann Eli Tafjord was fastest. Astrid is the overall leader of the camp cup. Photo: Lars Krogsveen So far its Astrid, Guro and Ella that’s best overall. Astrid won the 60-meter. Results time-trial 1. Ann Eli Tafjord 31.18 2. Marit Bjorgen 31.51 3. Kristin Murer Stemland 32.13 4. Ella Gjomle 33.23 5. Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nielsen 33.40 6....
– I had energy left at the end and that helped me win, said Sodergren after winning the event for the second time. Anders Södergren of Sweden showed that he has handled his summer training well by winning the 20-kilometer long freestyle rollerski race and the overall title in the pursuit style start on the final day of the three day long “Suverull†dryland competition in Otepaa, Estonia. Sodergren also said that he had tried...
Prologue, running race and pursuit is on the agenda this weekend in the annual Suverull competition in Otepaa Estonia. The competition starts with a rollerski prologue on Friday. The running race is on Saturday and the rollerski pursuit race takes place on Sunday. Four Olympic champions and 13 Olympic medalists take part. National team skiers from 14 nations are participating in the 16th annual race. Home-town favorite Kristina Smigun has won the event 8 times....
For World Cup Cross-Country skiers, one of the summer’s most important fitness tests will be the 16th annual Saku Suverull that will be held in Otepää (EST) on 11th-12th August. The main international competition there will include a 2.7km roller skiing prologue, a running competition (ladies 3km/men 6km) and a roller skiing competition (ladies 12km/men 20km). Both 2005 winners, Vassili Rotchev (RUS) and Kristina Smigun (EST), an eight-time Suverull champion so far, have confirmed their...
Mars Hill, ME—July 8 marked the 16th running of the Mars Hill Climb, a grueling uphill race used as a fitness test by Maine Winter Sports Center athletes and local endurance junkies. The course brings athletes from the bottom of the chair lift to the USGS marker on the top of Mars Hill mountain, a 1.3 mile course that gains some 1,019 feet. Hilary McNamee at the top of the chair. This July’s edition of...
Andy Hunter continued a tradition of cross country skiers winning the grueling Bird Ridge Hill Climb race on Sunday in Anchorage, Alaska. Hunter led a procession of 5 skiers in the top 6 places. Recent winners of this race have included skiers like Trond Flagstad, Frode Lillefjell, and Tobias Schwoerer. From the Anchorage Daily News: Hunter, Liebner maintain nordic victory tradition QUAD-BUSTING: Skiers dominate race up Bird Ridge; Bourgeois starts to embrace her competitive side....
During the Rocky Mountain Nordic Select and Development Team Camp in Park City last week, several junior athletes posted fast times on the infamous Agony Hill Time Trial. Men: Ian Havlick (OJ) 14:51 (3rd fastest junior ever?) Tyler Reinking (J1) 15:32 Calvin Delamere (OJ) 15:33 Marty Smith (OJ) 16:46 Tom Sawyer (J1) 19:17 Women: Sarah MacCarthy (OJ) 18:52 Annelies Cook (SR – U of Utah) 20:11 Mary Rose (J2) 20:36 Molly Newman (J2) 21:06 Shana...
ROLLERSKI 2006: THE WORLD CUP IN 4 STAGES At the FIS congress in Vilamoura (Portugal) the 2006 Rollerski World Cup calendar was confirmed. Next season was also planned, with the World Championships 2007 set for Italy. The rollerski World Cup starts this season stronger than ever. In 2006 it will include four stages, as the FIS Congress in May approved. The opening of the World Cup has been given to the excellent organizing ability of...
Borre Naess won for the third year in a row an annual rollerskisprint race in Mjondalen, Norway this weekend. Source: Langrenn.com Trond Iversen was second while several national team skiers were beaten by local junior skiers. Petter Northug ended up in 9th place, while Tor Arne Hetland was 10 and Ola Vigen Hattestad was 11. The fastest prolog time was Trond Iversen with 1.17.7 Complete results at
Good technique (i.e. good work economy) and endurance are the two most important factors in ski training and ski racing for optimal performance. It’s important that each rollerski workout is used to make technical improvements. This will greatly improve your race efficiency. Here are some ideas for how to do that: What to work on Focus on relatively short rollerski sessions in the beginning of the summer. Increase the length of your rollerski workouts when...
Scott Loomis, a former member of the Subaru Factory Team and the US Ski Team, was the top finisher from New England in Monday's Boston Marathon. He finished 41st overall with a time of 2:28:48. Loomis, who retired from ski racing in 2004, now runs to stay in shape while attending Tufts Medical School. Loomis told the Boston Globe: “It was a great day. My plan was to hold back in the first half. I...
Martin Sundby (21) beat all the skiers on the Norwegian men’s team in Saturday’s classic rollerski time-trial and junior skier Petter Northug jr did the same in Sunday’s skate rollerski time-trial. Source: Langrenn.com Saturday’s classic race was dominated by the skiers from the long-distance team which captured the top three spots. Anders Aukland and Kristen Skjeldal were sick with colds and did not race. See article with photo in Norwegian paper
Former Swedish national team skier and the king of Vasaloppet Jan Ottosson was the second best Swede in New York Marathon on Sunday. Source; Skidsport.com/Glid The four-time winner of the Swedish Vasaloppet is still in great shape and proved that by placing 81st in the Worlds largest marathon race. — I started the race at a 2.30 pace, but struggled the last 10-kilometer and ended up in 2.39,20, said Ottosson
Kaitlyn McElroy, of Bates College, had a rather easy day with her fellow competitiors with a winning margin of 4:30 seconds, dominating the roller ski and coming in 2nd to Mandy Ivey, from Oxford, Me in the running. Actually Kaitlyn's biggest battle was with the asthma attack she had in the latter part of the running race, and this may have cost her the win here. Seventeen year old Sam Mathes from Messalonskee High School,...
2005 New England Roller Skiing Championships Cumberland, Maine October 29, 2005 Weather: 32 degrees Distance: 15km The Coastal Nordic Ski Club hosted the NENSA New England Roller-ski Championships this past weekend at the Valhalla Country Club in Cumberland. Despite a scary weather report, athletes, parents, and volunteers were treated to a wonderful fall morning with clear skies and brisk temperatures. Thanks to Bates and Bowdoin Colleges for raising the level of competition! In the women's...
On Tuesday, Kris Freeman won a USST time trial ahead of Carl Swenson and Dave Chamberlain. Wendy Wagner won the women's race. Here are photos. Kris Freeman (L) and Carl Swenson prepare for battle Justin Freeman Carl Swenson Swenson Dave Chamberlain Swenson
Kris Freeman was 24 seconds ahead of Carl Swenson in a 15-kilometer skate time-trial at Soldier Hollow on Tuesday. Dave Chamberlain was third. Dry roads, 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit and five laps on the Soldier Hollow , Utah rollerski course (plus the biathlon loop) at the 2002 Olympic stadium was on the program for the US Ski Team and several other skiers on Tuesday October 18. Freeman skied a very fast first lap and put an...
US Ski Team member Torin Koos and Norwegian skier Sigrid Aas won a skate rollerski sprint time-trial on the rollerski course at Soldier Hollow on Saturday. 18 skiers from the US Ski Team, University of Utah and other clubs were on the starting line for the 10 AM start. Great warm fall weather with temperatures in the 60-70 Fahrenheit range. The prolog was run with 10 seconds intervals. The heats started 20 minutes after the...
Tore Ruud Hofstad won a skate rollerski time-trial in Lillehammer, Norway on October 8. The course was mostly uphill from the Birkebeineren Olympic stadium to Nordseter. Source: Langrenn.com Results: Tore Ruud Hofstad 30.34 Jan Egil Andresen 30.35 Espen Harald Bjerke 30.42 Ola Erik Moe 32.31 Ole Krisian Mork 32.45 Morten Pedersen 35.05 Frode Korsmo 38.42 Lars Oddsæter 39.58 Morten Oddsæter 44.36