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Canadians Tackle Long Days and Epic Amounts of Monopoly at Haig Training Camp

Kieran JonesJuly 30, 2010

During the month of June, the Canadian National Ski Team (CNST) tackled the usual Haig glacier ‘Yo-Yo’ Camp. Featuring 23 days of skiing, intervals, distance workouts and traveling from high to low altitudes and back again, the ‘Yo-Yo’ camp has been a fixture on the CNST schedule for the last couple of years. The training camp has always been a difficult one, due to its length and its strenuous workouts. The 2010 edition featured four...

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Two by Fours, Bonfires, and Multigrain Pita Chips: An Afternoon at Andy Newell’s Cabin

Nathaniel HerzJuly 29, 20101

In the voice mail he leaves me with directions to his cabin in the woods, Andy Newell gives me the street address—number 380—but tells me to just give him a call when I get close, since it’s not marked. But when I drive through the nearest town, he doesn’t answer, and then, predictably, when I find 376 and 382 a mile down the dirt road, I don’t have cell service. After driving past two surly-looking...

General News Training Workouts

Pro Workout: Bounding Intervals with Kristina Strandberg

Topher SabotJuly 28, 20101

Our Pro Workout series continues, this week shifting from rollerskis to running shoes for ski bounding intervals with XC Oregon’s Kristina Strandberg. A native of Sweden, Strandberg is a consistent force on the U.S. racing circuit. A two-time SuperTour overall champion and repeat winner of the FasterSkier Continental Skier of the Year award, Strandberg earned a spot on the World Cup circuit for the start of last season. She competed in seven World Cup events,...

Health Lifestyle Training

Barbeques, Beer, and Training

Kieran JonesJuly 28, 20106

The summer is in full swing. For athletes, that means building up your training base with long workouts, intensity sessions, and time in running shoes and on rollerskis. While the training is what will keep you fast for those race weekends in January and February, during July and August, the season can seem a long way off. The temptation to have a barbeque with your friends, knock back a few of your favorite adult drinks,...

General Interviews Langrenn News Training

Old School Not Always Better

Inge ScheveJuly 26, 2010

A lot of things were better in the old days. But distance workouts in rubber boots? “It felt mostly like running on cutting boards, but we didn’t think twice about it!”

Training Workouts

How Many Hours? A FasterSkier Forum

FasterSkierJuly 22, 20104

The eternal question of cross-country ski training: how much to train? This is a debate that will never find resolution, for the simple reason that there is no one answer. A recent FasterSkier http://fasterskier.com/2010/06/after-ncaa-championship-gelso-to-join-sun-valley/) to give you background, so you may better understand where this is all coming from. One of the keys for any young skier using these charts would be to do it with you club or program coach, so you can decide...

Health Lifestyle

Mythbusters: Protein

Maddy WendtJuly 21, 20106

Protein is a very important component of any athlete’s caloric intake, but it can be difficult to sort myth from fact when judging how much protein to incorporate into your diet. In the next few paragraphs, I hope to debunk some myths and provide you with a new pieces of information that might improve your diet and subsequently enhance your training. Myth: You only get protein from meat. Fact: While this is a bit exaggerated...

Camps General Juniors News Training Workouts

Junior Camps: Norway Style

Inge ScheveJuly 15, 20104

Training camps for junior skiers are important both as a social arena and networking function, as well as the physical training aspects.

Camps Training

Running Up Hills: Eastern REG Camp

Maddy WendtJuly 15, 2010

High-caliber junior athletes flocked to Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont on June 25 for the five-day Regional Elite Group (REG) camp. The week provided attending skiers with a chance to train with and learn from some of the country’s best coaches. This year saw some changes to the general REG plan, including more time trials and the requirement that athletes wear numbered bibs for all workouts, fostering a greater spirit of competition and professionalism. “I...

Technique Training

Smooth Is Fast: Relaxation Key to Good Technique

Maddy WendtJuly 15, 2010

Relaxed and fast may seem like contradictory adjectives, but any successful skier can tell you otherwise. Learning to relax while skiing is essential to racing fast at a high level. Nerves and tension are natural components of any athletic competition, but if untamed they lead to choppy technique, inefficient movement, and a needlessly tiring struggle. “You can be as fit and strong as anybody but still not be able to hang on… You cannot power...

Training Workouts

Pro Workout: Uphill Intervals With James Southam

Topher SabotJuly 14, 2010

Two weeks ago for the first installment of our “Pro Workout” series, we featured a high speed session with Olympic sprinter Simi Hamilton. This time around we literally shift gears, talking with Alaska Pacific University’s (APU) two-time Olympian and distance stalwart James Southam. With three trips to World Championships in addition to his Olympic appearances, Southam is entering the final year of a strong career that also includes multiple National Championship titles. For the last...

General News Training

CXC Takes Innovative Approach to Periodization

Nathaniel HerzJuly 14, 2010

Bryan Fish is the former CXC Team Vertical Limit head coach, and now coaches for the U.S. Ski Team. FasterSkier approached Fish about CXC’s unique approach to periodicity–the sequencing of hard and easy blocks in a training plan–and this was his response. We got an e-mail from a reader with a story idea—he mentioned that CXC takes a different approach to periodicity, alternating hard weeks with easy weeks rather than doing the typical three-week progression....

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Through Time Trials and Tug-of-War: Central REG Camp

Maddy WendtJuly 12, 2010

Friday marked the end of the Central Regional Elite Group (REG) training camp at the Cresthill Resort in Hayward, Wisconsin. Top athletes from throughout the Central region arrived on Saturday, July 3 for a week of tough competition, quality training, and phenomenal coaching. One of the great values of the REG camps is the educational component, as athletes attended lectures presented by the coaches almost every night. The star-studded coaching staff included Bryan Fish (US...

Health Langrenn Training

10 ways to prevent injuries

Inge ScheveJuly 8, 20101

Summer means variety in training methods, activities and intensities. However, almost all of the summer training methods that skiers engage in, carry some risk of injury. Martin Lobben, a chiropractor and manual therapist who works extensively with athletes recognizes some common injuries that plague skiers. ”I’ve treated a fair number of nordic skiers, and come up with a short list of tips that can be useful,” Lobben says to Norwegian web site www.langrenn.com.

Camps General News Training

Western REG Features 18 Hours, Agony Time Trial, and Andy Newell

Topher SabotJuly 7, 20102

Midsummer is upon us, and that means it is time for the annual Regional Elite Group (REG) camps. The annual Western REG camp recently concluded in Park City, where 30 athletes took advantage of excellent training opportunities to log 18 hours for the week. The schedule also included Medals Testing (a set of exercises including pushups, pullups and situps, performed in a controlled environment) the famous Agony Hill Time Trial, as well as talks from...

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SPF: Slather it on

Maddy WendtJuly 7, 20104

The summer sun is enticing to outdoor enthusiasts like most of us skiers, but it can be more dangerous than we realize. We all grew up with Mom chasing embarrassingly after us with a bottle of SPF 200, but it turns out Mom was right. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and studies have shown that endurance athletes are at a greater risk due to the extended hours spent in...

Interviews Lifestyle News

Renner Retires To The Real World

Linnaea KershawJuly 1, 2010

Sara Renner is getting a crash course in normal living. Since announcing her retirement from skiing after her final race—the 30 k race at the Olympics, she’s jumped into the “real life of motherhood and work” with both feet. “It’s really eye-opening the amount of stuff you do in a day when you don’t ski [train],” she said. “It’s so busy!” Renner is now balancing motherhood with a new position—she and her husband, Thomas Grandi,...

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Run In The Off Season And You’ll Fly In The Ski Season

Linnaea KershawJuly 1, 2010

Tired of going out for a rollerski in the rain only to come back with soaked boots that need to sit for a day and a half trying to dry, stuffed with newspaper? Tired of rollerskiing in the hot sun? Tired of rollerskiing already, period? Running may be the answer, according to Dick Moss of Sudbury, Ontario. He’s been a coach for 29 years, working primarily with runners, but he has seen the occasional Olympian sneak...

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Pro Workout: Speeds with Simi Hamilton

Nathaniel HerzJune 30, 20101

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Interviews Lifestyle

Dussault Turns Focus to Family and Farm

Maddy WendtJune 29, 2010

Following her Olympic debut in Turin, Italy in 2006, Rebecca Dussault planned to take a break, to include the birth of her second child, before returning to racing. The short break lasted a year and a half longer than planned when her husband Sharbel contracted a serious auto-immune disease. The long delay meant that her points coming into the 2010 season were far less than optimal and despite numerous fantastic results and a SuperTour championship,...

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