It’s time to sign up for the popular annual Fasterskier.com on-snow December 9-12 training camp in Park City, Utah. This is a great opportunity for anyone that is planning on racing this season to improve their race results. The coaches Our on snow camp is run by coaches Torbjorn Karlsen and John Aalberg. Torbjorn is 2002 Olympic gold medal winner Beckie Scott’s personal coach and 10-time Master’s national champion. John Aalberg is a former NCAA...
The US Ski Team is currently training in sunny San Diego, and the eastern US had a warm dose of summer over the weekend, but other parts of the United States have been starting to look a lot like winter in the past few days. We received the following pictures from Nordic Combined coach Dave Jarrett, taken last Friday. Dave's comments: The picture was taken on Bruce's Trail which is on Rabbit Ears Pass above...
No more secrets: One of the Worlds best cross country skiers, Swedish national team member Anders Sodergren posted his recent two training weeks on his own web site (
Swedish Skidsport.com reports that Chinese elite skiers in both cross country skiing and biathlon are training hard in the ski tunnel in Vuokatti, Finland. The reason for this is an exchange program between the Finnish educational department and the two nations Olympic committees. The Chinese skiers will have totalled 1500 training days in Voukatti this year. (10 skiers on a 10 day camp = 100 training days). Observers have reported seeing the Chinese skiers do...
Norwegian Adresseavisen (Adressa.no ) reports that Marit Bjorgen and the rest of the Norwegian women’s team are continuing to increase the training volume. Some are now training more than skiers on the men’s team. Bente Skari is the most successful Norwegian female skier ever. She was training up to 830 hours per year. Some of the skiers on the women’s team will top that volume this season. Marit Bjorgen
The Yellowstone Ski Festival November 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27, 2004 West Yellowstone, Montana It’s late September in West Yellowstone, Montana and judging by the snow on the mountains and the chill in the air, it’s almost time to put away the mountain bike and dig out the skis. And that means it’s time to make your plans to attend the Yellowstone Ski Festival! This year the Yellowstone Ski Festival dates are November 23,...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced Tuesday that its Executive Committee approved the Prohibited List of Substances and Methods for 2005. The new List will be published prior to October 1, 2004, and will go into effect January 1, 2005. Some changes will be made from the current List in 2005. Those changes include: The topical application of glucocorticosteroids will no longer require an abbreviated therapeutic use exemption. Beta-2 agonists, often used in the treatment...
The race season is only two months away. You’ll have more fun and race faster this winter if you ski technically well. We suggest that you use the finale months of the dryland season and the first part of the winter to improve and fin-tune your technique skills. Fasterskier.com posted a series of very good technique articles by Stefan Lindinger and Walter Minatti  this summer. Check them out in case you missed them: Part 1...
Swedish Skidsport.com reports that the Swedish men’s team completed a very successful ten day long Ramsau, Austria camp on Thursday this week. National team captain Per Erik Ronnestrand says that the team experienced perfect ski conditions throughout the entire camp, with hard tracks and sun every morning on the Ramsau glacier at 2700 meters. In addition to skiing, the skiers did quite a bit of rollerskiing on the closed-to-traffic rollerski course, and on the nearby...
Swedish SkidSport.com reports that last years overall World Cup winner, Rene Sommerfeldt of Germany is slowed down by an injury.
Norwegian national development team coach Morten Aa Djupvik “put the breaks†on his skiers during their first high altitude camp with the elite team.
Norwegian newspaper VG reports that WADA director Rune Andersen isn’t nearly as pessimistic as the Norwegian women’s national team coach Svein Tore Samdal regarding possible dopers chances of getting away with cheating. Samdal is afraid that DYN-EPO can cause doping situations similar to what happened during the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. – I believe that DYN-EPO might have been mistaken for other blood-products available on the market. Our science department is working closely...
A crash with a sheep could have wrecked the season for Norwegian skier Krister Trondsen who was selected to race the upcoming sprint World Cup races in Düsseldorf the day before the accident.
Norwegian women’s national team coach Svein Tore Samdal fears extensive doping this season.
The private Norwegian marathon-team has been in existence for a few seasons, but the planning has never been as professional as this year. – We have notices an increased interest around the team and the skiers. Our sponsors feel they get their money’s worth, says team director Lars Aabol. The team sponsor, the Sport equipment provider, Intersport, is so satisfied that it has decided to support the team for two more years. The skiers has...
It’s now mandatory to use a helmet when rollerskiing at training camps as a member of the Norwegian junior national team. Junior national team coach Jon Arne Schjetne decided to make helmet usage mandatory in rollerski workout following Unni Odegaard’s recent accident. – I wanted to focus on increasing helmet usage among Norwegian roller skiers and felt it would be good to start with the junior national team. The skiers agreed with me, says Schjetne....
Terje Monsen (47) from Molde, Norway wants to do well in the 90-kilometer long Swedish Vasaloppet marathon race. His goal is in fact to beat (all) the younger skiers from his area that are also traveling across the border to participate in the World’s largest cross-country ski race. Terje knows that “talk is cheap†come March and is preparing himself for the winter with workouts that can (at least) mentally scare his competitors. Terje skied...
World Cup skier Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset got sick with a cold already during the first week of the Norwegian national team’s altitude camp in Stelvio, Italy. A sore throat and chest made Odd-Bjorn return to Norway last Friday, after only four days in Italy. -I have been to altitude so many times that I know that I would not have gotten healthy again when we are living as high as we do at this camp, says...
Fasterskier’s annual September rollerski and dryland training and technique camp is coming up during September 16 – 19 in Park City, Utah. New for this year’s four-day camp is the opportunity to select and take part in individual sessions. E-mail Fasterskier coaches Torbjorn Karlsen and John Aalberg at
I was greatly impressed a couple weeks ago when I read that Alaskan Tim Kelly found a ski area on a deserted island on one of his workouts. I’m not trying to top that, but I did “find†the original Miami Vice TV series 800-horsepower boat used by Don Johnson on my last rollerski workout in Norway before I returned to the US. Let’s first go down memory lane with the first part of the...