Rollerski World Cup: Season Opener July 2. In Latvia Source: Langrenn.com The official rollerski World Cup season has its season opener July, with races in Cesis, Latvia. Here is the World Cup and World Championship schedules as well as some links to rollerski racing links. The rollerski World Cup schedule July 2 – 3 Cesis, Latvia July 9 – 10 Villard de Lans, France August 19 – 21 Oroslavje, Croatia September 1 – 4 Geyer,...
Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Bjœrgen on the World’s biggest podium Photo: Hœytorp fort skiteam. Results from the May 12, 2005 rollerski race in Mysen, Norway Women:1) Marit Bjœrgen, Rognes IL, 2) Kine B. BjœrnÃ¥s, IL Varden, 3) Ella Gjœmle, Lyn, 4) Kristin M. Stemland ByÃ¥sen IL, 5) Astrid Jacobsen, Heming, 6) Ingrid Narum, Sogndal, 7) Guro Strœm Solli, Drevja IL. NOTE: Home town favorite Vibeke Skofterud had an air-way infection and did...
Source: This report on the US Ski Team was provided by Team Today: Wendy Wagner Rollerski time trials are a workout and race practice. Comparing times to others is completely useless and counter productive. Comparing times to past years, or even past months is likewise hard to draw conclusions from. Even skis of the same brand with the same series of wheels can have different speeds and skis of different brands are guaranteed to have...
Cross country skiers beat the rollerski experts in a very competitive top international field including skiers from The Czech Republic, Finland, Austria and Italy in the Sportful Rollerski race at Croce d’Aune Pass, Bergamo, Italy on October 10. Â
Plan for Chicago Marathon 2004: Ride with the 3:00 pacing group for about 25 km, then try to get 5 minutes out of the last 10 miles. With a good close, and ideal conditions, a 2:55 would be within reach. As you might expect, things played out differently from the plan. In my blind trust of the pacers, I expended way too much early energy trying to ride them. Early miles of 6:36 to 6:45...
Source: This report on the US Ski Team was provided by Team Today: Kris Freeman. All photos by the author. Tuesday Kris Freeman set a new personal record and official course record for the Soldier Hollow 10km time trial. His time of 37:09 beat the old course record he shared with Scott Loomis by 2 seconds. This is actually a big improvement because we have done very little pure running in the past two months...
For decades I have been approached by skiers that are asking me asked me why I suggest doing diagonal skiing on rollerskis. They have been told that – “it’s bad for your technique” and that they should avoid it. Here are some reasons why it’s good for you, as well as what you need to work on to reap the benefits from this training method. My approach is that diagonal skiing on rollerskis is great...
Getting ready for Obersdorf Worlds: All the German cross country national team skiers showed up for their annual mandatory fall tests in Oberhof this weekend. This is the 40th year the in a row the test is done in Oberhof. The competitions started with a running test and ended with a skate rollerski race. – This is a max test to check the skiers shape, said head coach Jochen Behle to the newspaper Sudturingen Zeitung....
The sprint World Cup opener in Düsseldorf, Germany is less than a month away and the Norwegian men sprint team was racing rollerski time-trials in both individual and sprint- relay at a camp in Meraker last weekend. The camp is followed by a few easy training days before the team leaves for another altitude camp in Val Senales, Italy on October 3. – We did a bit more competition-specific training at this camp, said sprint...
Yes, it's like doing the American Birkebeiner on a mtn bike. Â Not just any bike, I choose a bike built for two or tandem. Â The Chequamegon Fat Tire 40 is a 40 mile mtn bike race from Hayward to Cable , WI. Â It uses some of the famed Birkie trail along with multiple fire roads to make up the largest off road bike race in the country with about 2500 riders. Finishing at Telemark The...
Sprint World Cup winner Marit Bjorgen dominated a small women's field and won by almost 4 minutes to Kine Beate Bjornas in a 24-kilometer rollerski race in Budal Norway last weekend. Stig Rune Kveen crushed a strong men's field including national team skiers Eldar Ronning, Frode Estil and John Kristian Dahl. Kveen was 1.02 ahead of Dahl while Estil was third, 27 seconds behind Dahl. Krister Trondsen was back from his recent crash with a...
Pietro Piller Cottrer of Italy and Elena Veedeneva of Russia won the final 12-kilometer skate race in the 2004 rollerski World Cup. Italian skiers dominated the men’s field taking the top five spots. Rikard Grip of Sweden was sixth. Russian and Ukrainian skiers took the top four spots in a very competitive women’s race. Results 2004-09-20 WORLD CUP ROLLERSKI 2004 FIS SESTOLA – ITALY 17-19 September 2004 12 km skating SENIOR Men 1 Pietro Piller...
The regular World Cup opener is next month in Düsseldorf, Germany, while the rollerski World Cup concluded last weekend in Italy. The final races were held in Sestola, about 100-kilometer outside Bologna. The first of the final races was pursuit and took place on Saturday. Italian Alfio Di won the men’s race and Russian Elena Veedeneva won the women’s race. The same skiers were leading the overall World Cup ahead of the final race on...
Oystein Solbjorg (21) beat both Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset and Anders Aukland in a short rollerski race in Gjovik, Norway on Saturday. Solbjorg placed seventh in the Norwegian pursuit championship last season and was on the winning sprint-relay team at the2004 U-23 Worlds at Soldier Hollow, USA. His victory Saturday against some of Norway’s best skiers might put Solbjorg in an “outsider†category to make the Norwegian Worlds team this season. Hjelmeset ended up in second, two...
Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset captured sixth place in the Norwegian 10-kilometer cross country running championship in Lillehammer on Saturday. Anders Aukland, who had also planned to double up by doing both the rollerski race and the running championships, did not participate in the running event after finishing fourth in the rollerski race. Â Â Â
The upcoming Saturday should be quite busy for Norwegian World Cup skiers Anders Aukland and Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset. They will be competing in both the Norwegian cross country running championship and in a rollerski race. The day will start in Gjovik with the Markensrennet rollerski race. Many top skiers will be on the starting line, but Aukland and Hjelmeset should fight for the victory. Recovery and warm-down following the race will be slim to none. The...
A crash with a sheep could have wrecked the season for Norwegian skier Krister Trondsen who was selected to race the upcoming sprint World Cup races in Düsseldorf the day before the accident.
Kristin Stormer Steira won a running and rollerski pursuit time-trial on September 5th in Livigno, Italy. This time-trial was for the Norwegian women’s national team. The running portion of the race was 4.5 kilometer long and the skate rollerski section was 6-kilometer. Steira had the fastest running time in 13.33 while Kristin Murer Stemland had the second fastest time in 13.43. Sprint World Cup winner Marit Bjorgen was second overall and had (by far) the...
Biathlon skier Ole Einar Bjorndalen and cross country skier Espen Harald Bjerke won a running and shooting two-person relay in Livigno, Italy a little more than a week ago. The competition took place when the Norwegian cross country and biathlon team did a combined workout at their on-going altitude camps. The relay consisted of running and shooting. The teams ran a loop that took roughly three minutes and shoot four times each with penalty loops...
It’s now mandatory to use a helmet when rollerskiing at training camps as a member of the Norwegian junior national team. Junior national team coach Jon Arne Schjetne decided to make helmet usage mandatory in rollerski workout following Unni Odegaard’s recent accident. – I wanted to focus on increasing helmet usage among Norwegian roller skiers and felt it would be good to start with the junior national team. The skiers agreed with me, says Schjetne....