The Western Regional Camp started last weekend and is now winding down after six days of training, instruction and fun. Twenty-seven top junior athletes from seven Western states as well as coaches from around the region and USST coach Pete Vordenberg were in attendance. Morgan Arritola from Sun Valley and Glenn Randall from Colebrann, Colorado showed everyone that their training is coming along well by both setting new hill time-trial records on the famous Harpers...
Scott Jerome, head coach at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, sent us the following report. Do you have an interesting report on yourself or your athletes? http://www.gonanooks.com/artman/publish/skiing.shtml
Junior World Champion Petter Northug did his first camp with the Norwegian elite team recently. — No problem, said Northug. Source: Langrenn.com
A new analyzes of Vittoz’s doping test after the World Cup race in Nove Mesto, still shows positive A-test and negative B-test. Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen http://www.fasterskier.com/training1875.html Vincent Vittoz B-test Is Negative http://www.fasterskier.com/training1894.html
We at FasterSkier have enjoyed hearing from all of you who have stretched your ski season well into summer. Here's the latest installment, which we received a week ago from Chris Humbert in Utah I was up at Bald Mountain Pass (10,000') this past Saturday the 18th, since Laurie [Chris's wife ] rode up there on her bike. I figured I'd bring my skis, and lo and behold, there's still about six FEET of snow...
Join skiers, coaches and parents from North America and around the World – subscribe to FasterSkier.com's subscription service. Expand your knowledge and get ideas and inspiration. Wed Jun 22, 2005 FASTERSKIER CLUB SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE – 2005 June, 2005 Volume 2 Issue 2 The Club! This is the second issue of the 2005 season Fasterskier.com’s subscription service covering in-depth, modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country. For non-subscribers, this is a great time to...
The calendar is closing in fast on July, but that hasn't stopped some of the diehards from holding on to winter. We received the following report from Mandy Bowden in Montana. The skiing on Beartooth Pass continues to hold up well. We were skiing at elevations over 8000 feet where there is still several feet of snow. Because Beartooth Pass is closed from Red Lodge due to mud slides, the drive from Bozeman is over...
Beckie Scott was undecided whether she wanted to continue her racing career following the 2003-2004 season. She stopped training after the last race of the 2004 season and used the spring and most of the summer to figure out if she wanted to continue to race or not. This was not done to focus on the 2005 Worlds but rather to figure out if she would have the desire to continue racing through the 2006...
The Norwegian men’s team started their June on-snow training camp Friday last week. Here is their camp program. Source: Langrenn.com This is their second camp of the year and lots of volume training was on the agenda. Coach Krister Soregard explains that they are doing one camp every month and that the camps are usually the hardest weeks of the months, but that there is not that much difference between the camp weeks and the...
US Cross Country Ski Team Coaches and a selection of some of the nation’s best coaches will be presenting a 3-day coaching symposium at the US Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY September 23-25, 2005. A Summit on the topic of the Coaching Education Curriculum is open to all and will take place Saturday, Sept. 24th. The coaching symposium will cover topics on technique, training theory and discuss USST’s latest thoughts as well as...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen Norway’s junior team coach Jon Arne Schjetne uses the same principles as Svein Tore Samdal (Norway’s women’s coach) when he sets up the training for the best junior skiers. The two coaches have very similar training philosophies since they both studied together in Trondheim, Norway. -I have faith in training in periods, it allows one to focus on different things at different times. I want to avoid training the...
Source: Langrenn.com The Norwegian men’s team is experiencing good skiing conditions for their June camp at the Sognefjellet glacier.
Source: Langrenn.com Over the last few weeks there have been several articles on how the men and women on the Norwegian national team train. There are obviously some differences. First and foremost it deals with training prioritization, how one divides up the training volume from week to week. The men train hard and easy all the time while the women will have periods of up to week and a half once a month, of only...
Source: Langrenn.com Due to the high altitude of the Olympic Nordic events in Torino, Norway’s women’s national team coach Svein Tore Samdal is emphasizing the importance of his athletes learning how to ski hard at altitude before they get to the Olympic start line. Almost every athlete has experienced hitting the wall at altitude and Samdal is trying to teach his women how to avoid this. -We have to complete some good and hard workouts...
Reader Chris Axelson sent us this report and photos: The BSF Senior Team headed to Beartooth Pass over the Memorial Day Weekend for a little skiing. Winter is late leaving the Bozeman area and it continues to snow daily in the mountains with the snowline currently located at about 7,000 feet. The team headed down to the Beartooth Pass for three days of great skiing, horseing around and sunshine. For those of you not familiar...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen There will be no significant changes in the training plan for next year says the head coach of the Norwegian women‘s national team, Svein Tore Samdal. -It will be very similar to last year, says Samdal. The women on the national team have been following Samdal’s training regime for 2 years now. According to the coach, Marit Bjorgen and Kristin Stormer Steira are the ones that have completed the...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen Norway’s Marit Bjorgen is not going to change anything with her recipe for gold from last year’s training plan for the upcoming Olympics. Over the course of last winter Bjorgen was able to make things come together and prove to the whole cross-country world that she could win in any distance. She now wants to continue to use the training plan that has shown to give results. -There will...
APU Nordic Ski Center is offering a masters training camp at the Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier, August 8-13, 2005. The camp includes six days at the center (Monday to Saturday) skiing on the groomed trails on Eagle Glacier, and full use of the Thomas Training Center facilities. Coaching will be provided by the APUNSC staff, including technique sessions on snow, video feedback, and evening discussions regarding training. The standard camp cost is $720...
http://www.torbjornsport.com/store/videos.html for more information. Note: The videos are produced many years ago, however most of the content is still “must know†stuff for anyone serious about XC ski training. The drills seen on the videos are key in learning how to ski well and top World Cup skiers are still using good old “moose-hoofs†to build their endurance.
Reader Benji Uffenbeck reports that the crust is still nice and smooth up in Alaska! Benji wrote in: On June 7 I hiked up Ram Valley for about 2 hours to get to the remains of the snow. I was able to ski up and over Bombardment Pass and down the other side a little ways. While you can't ski for miles on end, there is still a decent amount of skiable terrain. The snow...