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Wednesday Workout: Using Poles on the Ups with Caitlin Patterson

This week’s workout comes from Caitlin Patterson, a Craftsbury Green Racing Project (CGRP) skier and 2018 Winter Olympian. We asked the 28-year-old Patterson, an accomplished mountain runner as well, about training and...

Wednesday Workout: ‘Trailheading’ with Team Gregg

This week, we're featuring a workout from the training logs of Team Gregg. These days, husband and wife Brian and Caitlin Gregg are adjusting to life, training and bodily changes as Caitlin is pregnant with their first...

Throwback Workout: Marathon Prep with Holly Brooks

For this week's workout, we go back in time four years ago to when former U.S. Ski Team member and two-time Olympian Holly Brooks was prepping for a season of international ski marathons in 2014/2015. Now retired from pro...

The College Conflict: Part 2

The following was written by Alayna Sonnesyn, a new member of the Stratton Mountain School (SMS) T2 Team who graduated from the University of Vermont (UVM) this past spring. Originally from Plymouth,...

Wednesday Workout: Bog Running Intervals with Swedish Juniors

Today's workout comes from Alasdair Tutt, head coach and program director at the Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks/Fairbanks Cross Country (NSCF-FXC) in Fairbanks, Alaska, who recently attended a training camp with Swedish...

The College Conflict: Part 1

Americans Dominate the Field, Podiums at Winter Games NZ (Updated)

Note: This article has been updated to include comments from Simi Hamilton of the U.S. Ski Team (USST) and Stratton Mountain School (SMS) T2 Team, and Kevin Bolger of the USST and Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. ***...

Wednesday Workout: Live High, Train Low in (Smoky) Sunny California

This Wednesday Workout came to us just over a week ago from Gus Johnson, nordic program director and head coach at the Auburn Ski Club Training Center (ASC-TC) on Donner Summit in California. Have a workout of your own...

Keeping Up the Positivity, Randall Nears Day 60 of Chemo

Day by day. That’s how Kikkan Randall is approaching her battle with breast cancer after being diagnosed about three months ago. Now more than 50 days into her treatment — with six rounds of chemotherapy over an...

U.S. Part of Collaboration at Largest International Junior Camp (with Video)

https://youtu.be/zwZ0L9WXrcs Earlier this month from Aug. 2-8, nine top American junior athletes had the opportunity to participate in the largest International Junior Camp to date. In total, 146 athletes and 37 coaches...

Wednesday Workout: Optimal Recovery with Dr. Zuzana Rogers

The following Wednesday Workout comes from Dr. Zuzana Rogers, PT, ScD, SCS, COMT, of Anchorage, Alaska. Rogers has been the go-to physical therapist for the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team since 2013 and Alaska Pacific...

Why Skiing and How I Survived the Summer: Part IV

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 Gear Review: Rundle Sport Velox Skate Long Rollerski

Let’s go niche for a second as this will be a recurring theme of this rollerski review. It’s not exactly the dark web, but this esoteric rollerski site lists over 50 manufacturers. Presuming each brand builds out...

Wednesday Workout: Hiking and Cold-Water Plunging with the Mooney Sisters

Today’s Wednesday Workout is brought to you by the Mooney sisters, Heather, 24, and Brooke, 22, who grew up skiing in Peru, Vermont. Brooke is currently training with USRowing out of Princeton, New Jersey, while Heather...

Wednesday Workout: L3 Ski Walking Up Stratton Mountain

For this week's workout, we feature the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team, also known as the Elite Team, out of Stratton, Vermont. The team's full-time athletes live near the base of the alpine resort and take advantage...

Wednesday Workout: Craftsbury Running Intervals

For a mid-summer Wednesday Workout, we reached out to Craftsbury Green Racing Project head coach Pepa Miloucheva. In addition to sharing a running workout, Miloucheva told us what and who is new to the team based out of...

Wednesday Workout: Building Sprint Capacity with Dr. Øyvind Sandbakk

The following Wednesday Workout was written by Dr. Øyvind B. Sandbakk, the managing director at the Centre for Elite Sports Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway....

Wednesday Workout: Team Sprinting with the U.S. Ski Team

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- This past Sunday, July 15, FasterSkier visited the U.S. women's cross-country team in Lake Placid, where the team has been holding a dryland camp since July 11. Most all of the team's top athletes are...

Wednesday Workout: Masters Strength at Sovereign (with Videos)

VERNON, British Columbia -- There are a lot of master blasters who are training hard all year. There are a lot less that progress from one season to the next. This strength program is designed to help one group of masters...

Wednesday Workout: Russian Intervals with a Canmore Master

(Note: The following workout was submitted to FasterSkier by Everett Fee of Canmore, Alberta. If you'd like to share a workout of your own and the story behind it, please email alex@fasterskier.com with the subject line:...