The White Rim is a 103-mile trail located about 30 miles west of Moab in some of the most spectacular desert landscape the area has to offer. The trail essentially encircles the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park, located at the convergence of the Colorado and Green rivers. Most of the riding on the White Rim trail is non-technical on dirt jeep trails and one can drive the whole thing with a...
Wow! I have to start off by saying that because I know I said it about one hundred times during my latest go at adventure racing. The race was my debut in the longer format, and would be my first experience pushing through sleep depravation and the night. The location of this event was well chosen, and took place on the island of El Hierro, which is the furthest west in the Canary Island chain....
Retiring from ski racing isn't exactly what I thought it would be. What I've chosen to do isn't sitting on the beach in Baja sipping margaritas and waiting for the next big swell. In fact it's probably about as far from that as possible. There are warm climates involved though, but instead I'll be bushwhackin’ around in search of the next CP, which means, “check point” in adventure racing lingo. Yep, I’m one of those...
Soldier Hollow is the second stop on the eight-city Balance Bar Adventure Sprint Series this summer. Adventure racers, ranging from coed elite teams to first-time challengers, will be competing at Soldier Hollow on June 8. Participants will be testing their skills in trail running, mountain biking and kayaking across and adjacent to the same terrain that hosted the Olympic biathlon and cross-country skiing events. Additionally, team dynamics and mental strength will be challenged by the...
Mountain Biking for Ski Training? Introduction See the www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and myself have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you get fit, create and reach goals, ski faster and have more fun....
Join Us For your best Summer Training Camp ever Ski better and Train smarter — get better results! Torbjorn Karlsen and John Aalberg are inviting you to the Cross-Country summer-training camp we are hosting in Park City and Heber Valley, Utah, from June 12 — 15th. The camp can be done either as a 3-day or as a 4-day camp. Our goals for the camp is to teach you proper summer training and training zones,...
As readers of previous this column know I am always in search of the sure-fire way to improve my fitness. Recently, my wife and I decided to buy a hot tub or, I should say, portable hydrotherapy spa in today terms. If you read the sales literature, portable hydrotherapy spas or hot tubs are today’s fountains of youth. Hot tubs will restore the natural well being to your body, what ever that is. Simply by...
Introduction See the www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and Torbjorn have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you get fit, create and reach goals, ski faster and have more fun. A great selection of rollerskis can...
Get off the couch and start working out – Part 4 By Torbjorn Karlsen The NBA Playoff Workout Introduction See the www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and myself have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you...
By Gunnar Kagge (Published in Aftenposten 4/16/03) Translated by Per K. Johnsen, Kongsberger Ski Club, Seattle Klister is synonymous with "Easter in the Mountains in Norway" in red, blue and universal. To smear klister onto the skis is hard enough, and to remove it is worse. But the worst is to cook one’s own batch. For those of us who take the spring ski trip into the woods around Oslo, klister is literally a "mixed"...
A mini-series of articles intended to get you going this spring. Spring Training: Biking Introduction See www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and myself have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you get fit, create and reach...
A mini-series of articles intended to get you going this spring. Spring Training: Biking Introduction See www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and myself have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you get fit, create and reach...
Wintersport.as has posted an interview with US Ski Team head coach Trond Nystad. It is a pretty short interview, with only three questions, the best question being: “Traditionally the Americans have skied well at home, yet had problems in Europe. Can you give us some background for the success this winter for Freeman and Swenson in terms of training, background and other relevant information.?”
Spring Training: Skiing A mini-series of articles intended to get you going this spring. I often see that skiers “spring breaks” are too long and contain too little variation. Good domestic skiers, masters or juniors don’t have the need for a long post-season mental and physical break like World Cup skiers do. They have spent months on the road, in and out of hotel rooms, and raced up to three weekly races from November to...
Many ask if I am dissatisfied with the media, if I think they write and broadcast strange things or if I am misquoted. For the most part I have been satisfied, even though we do not need special detecting devices to find the individual situations I have not liked. There were a lot of misquotes in the beginning, before I knew that I could insist upon reading through the interviews before they were printed. No...
Park City/Heber Valley, Utah At the 2002 Olympic Venue – Soldier Hollow/ Heber, Utah Join us for some great altitude camps on the Olympic trails. Top international teams have raved about the dryland training (rollerskiing and running) and skiing at Soldier Hollow and the surrounding areas in Heber and Park City. Great terrain, scenic views, nice temperatures, super rollerskiing, fantastic hiking terrain, and great restaurants are some of the comments we've heard. Come join us...
I do much of the ski waxing in our house. I am not sure why this is. My wife has been racing competitively much longer than I have. However, she was racing at a level where there were coaches who tested and selected the wax of the day and just told her what to put on. This was also in the pre fluorocarbon/graphite/molybdenum era and waxing was much simpler then. The state of the art...
Crested Butte, CO to Aspen, CO March 28th- March 29th A vertical foot adding course change, extremely cold weather, and dry powdery snow led to perhaps the hardest Elks Mountains Grand Traverse yet. This extreme backcountry Nordic race, in its 6th year, saw slightly over 1/3rd of the field drop out or not finish. This race starts at the Crested Butte Community School at midnight, climbs over and around Crested Butte Mountain Resort, heads out...
We are very excited to bring you this look at Pete's year with the U.S. Ski Team. Part Four is below, Part Two is here
Pete Vordenberg is the Assistant Coach of the US Ski Team. He is the author of Momentum: Chasing the Olympic Dream, available now at Part Two is here. European Campaign ‘03. Our European Campaign began in Rumford, Maine – at the US National Championships. And God bless the people of Rumford, Maine. There is no more enthusiasm for putting on a ski race anywhere else in the world. They do it right in Rumford. After...