There are very few coaches for whom taking a job with the U.S. Ski Team (USST) is a step down in intensity. But after 300 days on the road last year as head coach of the Central Cross Country (CXC) program, that might just be the case for Bryan Fish. Last week, Fish was announced as the USST’s new Continental Cup coach, completing a USST staff reorganization that began in April when Chris Grover took...
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Fort Kent and Madawaska may not be the most scintillating of towns, but there are, in fact, a handful of things to do aside from eat potatoes and chase moose around. We talked to a couple of locals to get the skinny on Fort Kent and Madawaska. Here are some suggestions. Fort Kent In terms of restaurants, there’s pretty much one game in town for dinner, and that’s The Swamp Buck, on Main Street. Nothing...
The Craftsbury Outdoor Center and its Green Racing Project are excited to announce a new event, the Craftsbury Spring Tour, scheduled for March 19th through 21st. Racers from UNH, Dartmouth, Stratton, and Burke have already signed up, along with the GRP, guaranteeing strong fields. An expansion of the traditional Craftsbury Spring Fling, the weekend will offer a number of different racing opportunities, including an NRL-sanctioned stage race modeled after the Tour de Ski, a BKL...
Pinkham Notch, NH—On a spectacularly clear day on Mt. Washington, 2006 Olympian Justin Freeman of New Hampton, NH won his third consecutive Ski to the Clouds. Kirsten Gill from Lewiston, ME and Bates College was the top woman. Ski to the Clouds presented by Maxiglide offers $1400 in cash prizes and features a 6-kilometer climb up Mt. Washington making it North America’s Toughest 10k. Freeman let eventual second place finisher, 1992 and 1994 Olympic Biathlete,...
It took an early start to make it to the Outdoor Center at Sugarloaf by 8:30. Up at 3:45 to make time for coffee, stretching, and a good breakfast of eggs and potatoes. Out the door by 6:00 – hightailing it from near Ellsworth – I made good time until I got behind a Québecois tractor trailer and worried I was lost. Not true – I struggled to keep up all along Routes 16 and...
2010 Tour De Meissner CLASSIC SKI RACE AND TOUR SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH AT VIRGINIA MEISSNER SNOPARK 13 miles west of BEND, OR off century drive The Tour De Meissner Classic Ski Race and Tour offers something for all ages and abilities. Racing participants can choose to signup for the 22k or 14k classic race, and the casual Tour participants, can choose from four distances (22k, 14k, 10k, and 5k) to tour some of the best...
The Lake Placid Loppet attracted a number of skiers from the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond on Saturday, February 7th. The race course, which follows almost exactly the race course from the 1980 Winter Olympics, was offered at 25 or 50 kilometers in both freestyle and classic techniques. Mt. Van Hoevenberg’s challenging trails played host to this chapter of the American Ski Marathon Series. The race took place on a 25k loop, and competitors skied either...
Sun Valley, ID — Zack Simons successfully defended his Boulder Mountain Tour title, while Evelyn Dong improved on her third place finish in 2009 to take the title in 2010. Simons captured the title in a tight race that saw the top four places separated by less than three seconds. Edged to second place was Didrik Smith, finishing just three-tenths of a second behind Simons. Marshall Greene, 1.4 seconds off Smith’s pace, finished third. The...
flyingpointroad.com Saturday’s Sprint: While the talk was mostly about the crazy men’s qualifier round, the performances of the day came from two J2 women who stepped up to earn the top two spots in the overall women’s race. Stratton Mountain School’s Heather Mooney (Peru, VT) won both the qualifying round and the heats, while Corey Stock fought from a lower qualifying position to grab 2nd in the final. Green Mountain Valley School’s Elena Luethi earned...
March 6th, 2010 9:30am The Second Edition of the Tour De Meissner will again be hosted by the Tumalo Langlauf Club at the expanded Virginia Meissner Sno-park just 15 close miles to Bend, OR. This year’s Tour will feature a race for the competitive skier of two distances, 22k and 15k. The course will feature awesome undulating terrain reknown for the Meissner ski area, all groomed by the recently purchased Bombardier 4000. Following the start...
The final NorAm races in Val Cartier, Quebec, were held in changing conditions on Tuesday. Dasha Gaiazova (Canadian National Team/Skielite) won the women’s 10k interval-start classic, sweeping all three races of the series, while Stefan Kuhn (Canadian National Team/Canmore Nordic) picked up his first win of the weekend in the men’s 15k race. Both athletes are likely to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver after winning qualifying sprints in Canmore, but the Olympic teams...
Sunday, March 7, 2010 North America’s Toughest 10k is waiting. Racers compete for a share of a $1400 cash purse and the chance to tackle Mt. Washington! Beginning on the trail system at Great Glen Trails, Ski to the Clouds finishes with a 6 kilometer climb up the Mt. Washington Auto Road—a climb of more than 2200 vertical feet. Ski to the Clouds is a true freestyle event: skiers can use either skating or classic...
Registration: Contact Cory Schwartz CRITERIUM Technique: Free Course: Jackson’s FIS Homologated Sprint Course http://www.jacksonxc.org/Events/race_maps/5k_fis.pdf Men: 10 a.m. individual start Women: to follow (TBD by # of men’s entries) Seeded start – team is seeded by coach prior registration
The second day of NENSA’s opening Eastern Cup weekend at the Nordic Heritage Center in Presque Isle, Maine dawned warmer than the previous day. With overcast skies and temperatures in the 20’s, it was a perfect day for a classic race. J2s started the morning with one lap of the 5 km course and the women and men followed, both doing 10 km. The mass start races began in a long, wide field that climbed...
The NENSA Eastern Cup series opened on a cold and clear morning at Presque Isle, Maine’s Nordic Heritage Center. College, high school, and senior racers alike toed the line for the freestyle sprint on the new Fred Bailey-designed sprint loop at the Nordic Heritage Center. The course, which measures in at just over 1200 meters, starts with a downhill out of the stadium, then turns tightly and begins the tough climb back up to the...
Reese Hanneman (FAST) and UAF student Rebecca Konieczny were the winners in Saturday’s Flint Hills Resources Town Series event, the Fairbanks Youth Sports Classic Sprint. Comfortable temperatures in the mid-to-high 20’s, Fahrenheit greeted the racers – an improvement of nearly 50 Fahrenheit degrees from the first race in the series, held two weeks earlier. The day started off with the elementary and junior high races before getting to the elmination heats for the high school,...
UAF newcomer Raphaela Sieber smoked the women’s field and Alaska Nanook Erik Soderstrom topped the men in the only USSA race held this weekend at Birch Hill. The USSA portion of Saturday’s race was called due to the below USSA-legal temperatures of -20C — it was -18F to -19F most of the day yesterday, well below the cutoff. However, a serious warming trend started in about midnight Saturday night, and a strong inversion set in...
Davya Flaharty and Logan Hanneman were the winners in the Flint Hill Resources Town Race Series #1 – the Fairbanks Youth Sports Season Opener, at Birch Hill Recreation Area on Saturday. Davya Flaharty, former standout for West Valley HS and UA Anchorage, led a group of 67 women across the line under cold, but sunny, conditions at Birch Hill. Although the snow should have been slow at the -18F to -20F temperatures, skating ruled the...
THE 4th ANNUAL EQUINOX SKI CHALLENGE: How Far Can You Go? The Equinox Ski Challenge will again welcome the Spring and host an exciting finale to the Nordic ski season on March 20th and 21st at the Rendezvous Ski Trails in West Yellowstone, MT. This event is ingrained with camaraderie, challenge, and commitment to the well being of our communities. Similar to the 24 Hour mountain bike races, skiers complete as many laps as they...