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Dryland General Interviews Lifestyle Regional / Local Training

Hart Takes Advantage of Dartmouth D-Plan, Hangs with SMS

Alex KochonOctober 16, 2012

Annie Hart has been hanging out with the Stratton Mountain School (SMS) T2 Team for a couple months now, but don’t get it wrong, she’s still a Dartmouth skier. A 20-year-old junior, Hart spent most of the summer studying and training at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. That way, come late August, she could take the fall off. In an email from Park City, Utah, where she’s been training with the U.S. Ski Team (USST)...

General Health

Study Suggests New Strategy for Long-Term Asthma Treatment – and It’s Not on the Banned List

Chelsea LittleOctober 12, 20121

This is the first of two pieces looking at the use of bronchodilating drugs to treat asthma in athletes – and their changing place on WADA’s prohibited list. *** Asthma is far from uncommon in cross-country skiers: a 1994 study in Norway found that high-level skiers were about three times as likely to self-report as asthma patients compared to the normal population. A 1999 study by researchers in Norway, Sweden, and Nebraska found that even...

Camps General Masters Other Regional / Local Training US Ski Team

Elliott Schedules Trip to Wisconsin for “Train Like a Birkie Champion” Camp

Alex KochonOctober 11, 20121

When the head of F.A.S.T. Performance Training in Hayward, Wis., Bill Pierce heard Tad Elliott pulled off a cross-Atlantic trip to win the American Birkebeiner last February, he knew he had to have him back in town. Matt Liebsch, one of the Midwest’s nordic heroes and 2009 Birkie champion, thought the same. In July, F.A.S.T. held its first “Train Like a Birkie Champion” “Live & Ski Like a Champion” Purpose: This camp designed for the...

Camps Canadian National Ski Team Dryland General Training

Goodbye Park City, Hello Frozen Thunder: Canadians Fine Tune Training

Alex KochonOctober 10, 2012

It’s safe to say the Canadian cross-country teams enjoyed their stay in Park City, Utah. Between their tweets and Instagrams of bluebird days and college football games, it’s not hard to see why. While the Canadian women headed south on Saturday for a Noah Hoffman the only one that hopped in some workouts? JW: Yeah. We would’ve enjoyed having the other guys around, but he was the one that was in town and ready to...

Camps Dryland General Lifestyle News Training US Ski Team

Randall Keeps Head Up, Hammer Down While Healing Stress Fracture

Alex KochonOctober 9, 2012

When Kikkan Randall talks about being injured, her tone matches the description of any other day: the sun is shining; life is good. For more than two months, the 29-year-old U.S. Ski Team (USST) veteran has been

Dryland General Lifestyle Training

Spray Drag Running Race Returns to Canmore

Alex KochonOctober 6, 2012

2ND ANNUAL SPRAY DRAG RUNNING RACE October 20th, 2012 Alberta World Cup Academy in a running race up the Spray Lakes road! All proceeds go to helping support the team for their upcoming season… According to AWCA coach and race organizer Stefan Kuhn, “It’s basically all up hill … Starts on the river and we run all the way up then past the nordic center and up to the Spray dam, which looks over Canmore.” ...

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USST Athletes Descend on Park City, Join Several Others

Alex KochonOctober 5, 2012

The U.S. Nordic Ski Team’s final dryland camp of the season starts in earnest on Monday, but many of its athletes are already getting after it in Park City, Utah. Liz Stephen, Noah Hoffman and Tad Elliott generally live in the high-altitude training mecca when they’re not traveling, and Jessie Diggins arrived almost a week ago. According to U.S. Ski Team (USST) head coach Chris Grover, the Alaska Pacific University (APU) athletes rolled into town...

Dryland General Interviews Lifestyle Regional / Local Training Workouts

After Roll-Run-Row, Craftsbury Skiers Primed for Season Ahead

Alex KochonOctober 5, 2012

It downpoured across much of the Northeast on Wednesday. Those at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center in northern Vermont hardly noticed. Owner Judy Geer called it “drizzle.” That morning, about 20 Craftsbury Green Racing Project (CGRP) athletes and coaches participated in the second annual Roll-Run-Row race, which pitted the some of the nation’s best nordic skiers against top-tier rowers. All belonged to the same program, but the idea was to have some competitive fun while pushing...

Health XCFeeds

Kootenay Kramp 2012

Shawn DegrootOctober 4, 2012

Yesterday three Blackjack skiers competed in the local high school running race, the Kootenay Kramp. The course, as described by LVR running coach Graema Marshall was “Gut busting and calf crushing hills, quad pounding paths, and mind testing ten...

Camps Canadian National Ski Team Dryland General Interviews Training

Canadian Women ‘Far Fitter and Moving Faster’ at PC Camp

Alex KochonOctober 4, 2012

After nearly two weeks of dryland training in Park City, Utah, the Canadian women’s cross-country team will pack up and head to St. George on Saturday. Saint what? One of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., St. George is tucked in the southwest corner of the state about 300 miles (483 kilometers) from Park City. It requires about a five-hour drive south, and the group is going to the 75,000-population metropolis to train through...

Training XCFeeds

The Epic Quest for Snickers

FasterSkierOctober 2, 2012

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Camps Dryland General News Other Regional / Local Training

U.S. Paralympics Nordic Brings Numbers to Lake Placid

Alex KochonOctober 1, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — As they hammered out loops at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg biathlon center, several athletes on sit-ski mountain boards put their heads down. Everything they were doing — five or so laps lasting a few minutes each on pavement and grassy trails — required upper-body strength. At the end of each interval, they reentered the stadium for shooting practice, where the adaptive skiers rolled onto their stomachs and aimed at their targets....

General Lifestyle News

Weathering the Drought

Audrey ManganSeptember 28, 20124

There is a certain optimism that hangs in the air now that October is fast approaching. The temperature has cooled, leaves are turning red and snow is already accumulating in the mountains. Every year, signs of the changing seasons bring a sudden need for snow sport enthusiasts to urgently dial in their gear to be ready the instant the first skiable snow falls. Skiers may be chomping at the bit more than usual this season...

Canadian National Ski Team General Lifestyle

Cross Country Canada Launches Unique Project Podium Initiative

Alex KochonSeptember 27, 2012

Ski to the Podium with Canada’s Cross-Country Ski Athletes —Cross Country Canada Launches unique Project Podium fundraising initiative— ( CANMORE, Alta.—Fresh off one of the most successful seasons in the history of the program, Cross Country Canada is giving fans the opportunity to ski with its athletes to the international podium, thanks to Project Podium. Widely recognized that high-performance athletes need financial backing to succeed at the international level, Project Podium takes fundraising to a...

Camps Dryland General Interviews Training US Ski Team Workouts

U.S. Ski Team Elite Camp: Time-Trial Video

Alex KochonSeptember 27, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Exactly a week ago, 40 elite skiers threw down some solid efforts at a U.S. Ski Team (USST) classic rollerski time trial, with the fastest men and women moving on to their respective quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. Sophie Caldwell and Andy Newell of the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team topped the women’s and men’s fields in the sprint workout. For more about the races,

Biathlon Camps Interviews Training

US Biathletes at Different Points, Abilities, Discuss Goals

Alex KochonSeptember 26, 20121

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — As seven US Biathlon Team members repeated loops around the stadium during trail-running intervals at Mt. Van Hoevenberg on Friday, each had their own things going on, their own focus. A-Team athlete Susan Dunklee, a Craftsbury Green Racing Project skier who tied the best U.S. women’s result of fifth at Biathlon World Championships last year, warmed up and cooled down on her mountain bike to remedy tendonitis in her knee. But for the...

Biathlon Camps Training Workouts

US Biathlon Trail-Running Intervals in Lake Placid (Video)

Alex KochonSeptember 25, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — While the U.S. Nordic Ski Team trained on the mountainous,

Camps Dryland General Technique Training US Ski Team Workouts

USST Elite Camp: Wrapping up with Natural Intervals, Final Thoughts

Alex KochonSeptember 22, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Friday morning’s U.S. Ski Team workout at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg nordic trails wasn’t designed to be too hard. According to men’s coach Jason Cork, the idea was to run with poles and ski bound for 45 minutes at Level 3 – a sort of tempo pace. Once a couple dozen athletes between the U.S. Ski Team (USST) and National Elite Group (NEG) got going around the designated loop, most realized...

Camps General News Other Racing Training US Ski Team

Caldwell, Newell Stay Ahead in USST Camp Rollerski Sprints (Updated)

Alex KochonSeptember 20, 2012

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Flinging around a sharp corner about a ski length behind one another, Sophie Caldwell (Stratton Mountain School T2 Team), Ida Sargent (Craftsbury Green Racing Project), Caitlin Patterson (CGRP) and Jessie Diggins (SMS) each lowered into a tuck and prepared for a long, steep descent. Diggins called out to the others just ahead of her in the classic rollerski sprint at Lake Placid’s Olympic Jumping Complex. “That’s it,” the U.S. Ski Team...

General Other Testing

Aerobic Capacity, Bjørn Dæhlie and Predictors of Endurance Greatness

Audrey ManganSeptember 20, 20124

A few weeks ago 18-year-old Norwegian cyclist Oskar Svedsen turned heads by doing something no one has done before in the world of physiological testing: he recorded a V02max of 97.5 mL/kg/min. The number surpasses the high water mark long held by Bjørn Dæhlie (96 mL/kg/min), making Svedsen the young new king of aerobic capacity. Whether it has any significance or not, cross-country skiing can no longer lay claim to the best V02max in...

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