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NDC Thunder Bay, Len Valjas Highlight Massive Southern Ontario Training Camp

Kieran JonesOctober 4, 2011

Over 115 athletes, 30 coaches, the full National Development Center Thunder Bay (NDC T-Bay) roster, and Canadian National Ski Team (CNST) World Cup team member Len Valjas. Does this sound like any ski camp you’ve been to this year? Unless you’re in Norway, chances are it sounds more like a skiing fantasy rather than reality. Yet Ontario’s Team Hardwood, a club just outside of Orillia, Ontario, attracted the massive numbers in a training camp at...

Camps General Interviews Lifestyle News Training Workouts

A Relaxed Kuzzy Shifts Training Gears, Gives Back

Alex KochonSeptember 27, 20112

Note: This is the second profile in a new series about working out with high-performance athletes. While Alex Matthews was in Middlebury to observe and report, she focused on the kids who trained with U.S. Olympian Garrott Kuzzy at a summer camp. MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Leaning on the back of his Volkswagen station wagon, Garrott Kuzzy smiled as his training partners arrived at the Middlebury College parking lot. All seven poured out of two vehicles....

Training Workouts

Pro Workout: Attacking Intervals with Stefan Kuhn

Kieran JonesSeptember 21, 2011

Canadian Stefan Kuhn has made a rapid transition from elite skiing to elite coaching. The former Canadian National Ski Team (CNST) member and Vancouver Olympian announced his retirement less than six months ago, and was immediately snapped up in a coaching capacity by the Alberta World Cup Academy (AWCA), one of Canada’s premiere training centers. During his career, Kuhn was primarily a sprinter – as is evidenced by his 15th place finish in Vancouver, the best...

Camps Dryland Racing Regional / Local Training US Ski Team

USST Wraps Up in Lake Placid

Alex KochonSeptember 16, 2011

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – In theory, moving up the annual U.S. Ski Team camp in Lake Placid from October to mid-September made sense. It allowed space for a final dryland camp in Park City, Utah, where the USST athletes could train at higher elevations and follow up on tests taken earlier in the year. Also, September usually brings better weather than October in Lake Placid. In nearly 10 years of training in upstate New York,...

Camps Dryland Racing Training US Ski Team

USST Training Camp Video and Photos

Alex KochonSeptember 8, 2011

Several members of the U.S. Ski Team and National Training Group came out for Day 2 of the Lake Placid USST dryland training camp on Thursday, competing in a classic rollerski sprint. Over the two-hour time trial, six women and nine men raced four times — the women on a 1.3-k loop and the men over 1.5 k. Everyone advanced to the finals, and the idea was to go hard. Here is a recap...

Training XCFeeds

Wild Alaska

PatrickOSeptember 7, 2011

After a week of some pretty incredible skiing on Eagle Glacier Rosie and I loaded up her new car to head out on a road trip for several days. I wanted to experience Alaska. Real Alaska. This kind of Alaska. Although I didn’t have the former governor of the state as my guide, Rosie did [...]

Training XCFeeds

Wild Alaska

PatrickOSeptember 7, 2011

Biathlon General Workouts

Pro Workout: Shooting Combos with Tracy and Lanny Barnes

Chelsea LittleSeptember 6, 2011

General Juniors News Racing Training US Ski Team Workouts

Announcing US Ski Team XC Men’s Training Challenge Starting Oct. 3rd

FasterSkierSeptember 5, 2011

The Men’s XC ski team is inviting athletes from all around the country to join them for a virtual training camp. Men, Women, and athletes of all ages are encouraged to join in on one of the US Ski Teams toughest training weeks of the year. Starting now everyone can go to the US Ski Team XC Men facebook page for constantly updated information. Athletes, Coaches, and clubs are encouraged to ‘like’ the page and show their...

Lifestyle Racing Training

The Hoffman Chronicles: Part 6 – World Champs

FasterSkierSeptember 2, 2011

This is the sixth installment of a seven part series in which the U.S. Ski Team’s Noah Hoffman recounts his 2010-2011 season. 3/22/2011 I’ve been extremely busy the last couple of months. I’ve been to four countries I’d never visited, I met several new skiers, and, as always, I had some ups and downs in my racing. At the end of January I had the Under-23 (year olds) World Championships in Otepaa, Estonia. Part 1,...

Training XCFeeds

Eagle in August

PatrickOSeptember 1, 2011

This last week I was fortunate enough to join APU and Sun Valley for a week of skiing on APU’s Eagle Glacier outside Girdwood, Alaska. For anyone from the east skiing in the summer is an unusual, almost foreign prospect. The season in Vermont is short, and as a skier you spend more time cross [...]

Training XCFeeds

Eagle in August

PatrickOSeptember 1, 2011

General Interviews Lifestyle Training

From Skiing to Ultras: Callahan’s New Obsession

Alex KochonAugust 31, 2011

A creature of team sports – first baseball, then soccer – Duncan Callahan remembered his reaction when his older brother started nordic skiing at Glens Falls High School in northeastern New York. “I thought he was the biggest nerd in the world,” he said. A year later, Callahan’s brother, Bill, convinced him to try it. In darkness, the two set out on the city’s illuminated trail system. Afterward, Bill suggested his little brother come out...

Interviews Lifestyle News Strength Training Uncategorized Workouts

Working Out with Perianne Jones

Alex KochonAugust 24, 20111

Note: This is the first of a new series about working out with high-performance athletes. The idea is to shed light on the daily routine of someone dedicated to training and share a regular Joe’s story of trying to keep up. ALMONTE, Ontario — Upon my early arrival in Almonte, I decided to explore the hometown of Canadian Cross Country Ski Team member Perianne Jones. A few lefthand turns and I had completed the grand...

Training Workouts

Pro Workout: The Over-Under with Holly Brooks

Audrey ManganAugust 23, 2011

As both an elite team member and coach at Alaska Pacific University (APU), Holly Brooks knows that in today’s racing environments, the ability to ski well with the breakaway is essential. “You have to hang in the pack but also have some speed in your legs for when the pace picks up,” said the 2010 Olympian. To practice the high speed tactics of mass starts and sprints, Brooks and her teammates at APU will do...

General Health Lifestyle

“It Shouldn’t Be at All Surprising”: A Link Between Birth Control and Performance?

Chelsea LittleAugust 17, 20113

(Author’s Note: While some of the athletes and coaches contacted by FasterSkier for this story were willing to openly discuss birth control, many wished to remain anonymous rather than allow the public to make assumptions about their sexual choices, a desire that FasterSkier respected. For these sources, pseudonyms will be marked with an asterisk (*) the first time they appear, and they will subsequently be referred to by first name, rather than last name like...

Training Workouts

Pro Workout: Specific Strength With Jennie Bender

Audrey ManganJuly 29, 2011

For Central Cross Country’s Jennie Bender, summer is for both building strength and taking time out for unstructured workouts. The winner of the classic race at last year’s Birkie tries to balance the exact focus of specific strength training with free form over distance. By losing track of time on a long run or canoe paddle, she gets inspired to challenge herself with a grueling intensity session. Her go-to intervals, usually done on classic skis,...

Training Workouts

Pro Workout: The Long Climb With Sylvan Ellefson

Topher SabotJuly 8, 2011

It is mid July and do you know where your rollerskis are? If you are Team Homegrown’s Sylvan Ellefson, they will likely be found heading up the valley from the town of Vail, Colorado to the top of Vail pass, cranking out some long level three intervals. Ellefson, a graduate of Bates College, native of Vail, and one of the founding member’s of the Ski and Snowboard Club of Vail Team Homegrown, likes to put...

General Lifestyle News Racing Training

The Hoffman Chronicles: Part 4 – World Cup…

FasterSkierJuly 6, 2011

This is the third installment of a seven part series in which the U.S. Ski Team’s Noah Hoffman recounts his 2010-2011 season. 12/5/2010 The race season is in full swing and so far it’s gone really well. I’ve been in Europe now for 4 weeks and it has been a great trip. I’m learning a ton, racing often, and seeing some amazing places. Here’s my teammate Ida Sargent finishing her semi-final. She skied to a...

General Lifestyle News Training

The Hoffman Chronicles: Part 3 – Sun Valley, Madshus and Lake Placid

FasterSkierJune 29, 2011

This is the third installment of a seven part series in which the U.S. Ski Team’s Noah Hoffman recounts his 2010-2011 season. 11/1/2010 Since my last update I’ve been in Sun Valley, Seattle, Denver, and Lake Placid. I’ve been incredibly busy, but I’ve had a really productive fall. I’m ready to start racing! My training has gone as well as I could have hoped. My coaches and I have some high expectations for my winter....

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