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Wednesday Workout: Summer Training for Junior Athletes Competing in Fall Cross Country

This Wednesday Workout comes to us from Matt Boobar who has been coaching the Stratton Mountain School (SMS) nordic team since 2007. In the fall, he also works with the cross country running and mountain bike programs, and...

ABA Spring Biathlon Camp

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The World’s Great Age Begins Anew: Athletes Mark May 1

If you’re reading this website, you’re probably well aware that the nordic skiing training year begins on May 1. In a sport where most races happen between November and March, and demand of athletes that they...

Wednesday Workout: Review the Training with Jessica Yeaton

May 1. Start of a new training cycle for some. In this Wednesday Workout, we checked in with Jessica Yeaton. Yeaton resides in Anchorage, Alaska where she trains with APU and has represented Australia on the...

Eating for Immune Support During Race Week With Kylee Van Horn, RDN

Whether they are traveling through Europe to compete on the World Cup or racing recreationally in local events, skiers are met with the challenge of surviving a race season that takes place during the cold and flu ridden...

Wednesday Workout: How One Skier Keeps Marathon Race Fit in Portland, Ore.

This Wednesday Workout comes to us from Harrison Harb; Portland, Oregon denizen. HH grew up racing bicycles and xc skis in Hopkinton, NH. He graduated from Stratton Mountain School in...

New Program Info for the Alpine Insurance Alberta World Cup Academy

(Press Release) March 20, 2019 – Our Academy programs in Canmore and Calgary are currently accepting applications. We have brought changes to our Program Guidelines for 2019-20, new options are now...

Wednesday Workout: The Pressure is Off Approach to Your First World Cup

At eighteen-years-old, Gus Schumacher remains composed in what is a pressure cooker of endurance sport. There he was last week on his home tracks of Kincaid Park in Anchorage, AK., claiming four first place medals and...

Wednesday Workout: Guiding Junior Athletes With Adam St. Pierre

This Wednesday Workout includes guidance from Boulder Nordic Junior Race Team (BNJRT) Head Coach Adam St. Pierre. After earning a BS in Physics and Biochemistry while skiing for Colby College in Maine, St Pierre earned a...

Wednesday Workout: Race Prep with UNM’s Kornelius Grov

For this week’s Wednesday Workout, FasterSkier talked to University of New Mexico (UNM) racer Ben Berend about how his teammate, Kornelius Groev, the fastest skate skier on the RMISA circuit this season, gets ready for...

Wednesday Workout: Cold Weather Resource for Insiders and Outsiders

If you find yourself this morning in a part of the world where it’s truly cold, we feel for you. If you get outside and ski today, say in the Midwest (we’re thinking of you Duluth), the snow might be sandpaper slow,...

First Tracks as a New Parent: Kikkan Randall [Part 2]

The “First Tracks” series highlights the pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting experiences of noteworthy athletes in cross-country skiing in various stages of their professional careers. The sharing of these...

Wednesday Workout: Exploring Macro and Micro Terrain with Bernie Nelson

This Wednesday Workout comes from a true cross-country coaching whisperer: Bernie Nelson. First off, if you aren’t familiar with Bernie — she’s not a dude as the name might suggest. It’s Bernadette, but its Bernie...

First Tracks as a New Parent: Kikkan Randall [Part 1]

Wednesday Workout: What’s the Prescription for “Flooding” Legs?

2014 is when a relatively green Patrick O’Brien took charge of the Stratton Mountain School’s elite team, otherwise known as SMS T2. In a relatively short time, by way of juggling athletes, wax-teching, training plan...

All I Want for Xmas is a New Wax Bench by Scott “Bjorn” Cummings

In March of 2016, we published an article penned by Scott “Bjorn” Cummings, a Postbaccalaureate student working towards his Academic Behavorial Strategist K-12 (ABS) Special Education License at the University of...

2018 FS Gift Guide: The Complex Realities of Sport and Life as Told by Andre Agassi

As FasterSkier staff stroll into an upcoming weekend with no cross-country World Cups, it’s time to scramble and score some holiday gifts for friends and loved ones. Christmas is around the corner. It’s...

Wednesday Workout: A Flashback to 2016 and Midweek Race Prep with the U.S. Ski Team

We hear a lot about the details of a cross-country ski racer's day on race day, but what about those four or five days in between? What do World Cup racers do then, in the middle of the week? FasterSkier Norwegian...

A Holiday Gift for Improved Mobility: ‘Becoming a Supple Leopard’ by Kelly Starrett

As FasterSkier staff stroll into an upcoming weekend with no cross-country World Cups, it's time to scramble and score some holiday gifts for friends and loved ones. Christmas is around the corner. It's never...

Wednesday Workout: Getting Out With Kids in Tow

This week’s workout comes from contributing reporter Rachel Perkins, a former USCSA National Champion turned dedicated citizen racer and now a new mom to a baby girl born in October. Here Rachel shares tips from her own...