Cody, WY–MWSC Cross-country athletes just finished the first camp of the training year in Northwestern Wyoming's Beartooth Mountains. Steve Scott, Tom Keefe and coach Will Sweetser enjoyed almost perfect spring weather and put in more than 20 hours on snow. A short snowstorm two days into the camp guaranteed great skiing for the next week. Hardwax was the order of the day for a few days' early classic skiing. As the weather warmed and the...
Tomorrow marks the end of the grooming of snow at Auburn Ski Club for the season, and the Canadian National Team will depart for more Northern latitudes. They’ve spent their days skiing in the morning and enjoying the surrounding mountains and lakes in the afternoon, including a low-elevation interval session and swim on the Yuba River and lunch in Nevada City on Wednesday. The Sun Valley Junior Ski Team, including Coaches Rick Kapala, Abi Holt,...
July 2-8, 2006 Cresthill Resort, Hayward, WI Central Cross Country Ski Association (“CXC Skiingâ€) is pleased to announce the 2006 Regional Training/Testing Camp for CXC Ski Team, Regional Development Group, State Development Groups, and past year’s Junior Olympians. Athletes not qualifying for these groups may petition in to the camp by writing Yuri Gusev at www.cxcskiing.org to find registration info. Congratulations to the State Development Group athletes and Midwest/Great Lakes Junior Olympic Team members for...
Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier Summer Training Camps Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier Thirty five minutes south of Anchorage by car, and a short ten minute flight will get you to the best summer ski training opportunity in the world. The Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier, located on an alpine ridge 5700 feet above Girdwood and the Turnagain Arm, is just a short walk from the...
Poked, pushed, measured and evaluated. That's been the name of the game for the USST's World Cup and Continental Cup members for the last week in Utah. The USST coaching staff has put a greater importance on sport science to better understand the capacities and liabilities of America's top skiers. The tests measured endurance, power, strength, speed and coordination. Seeing how these factors change during the preparation period (with testing three more times through summer...
First of three camps in Park City “accomplished all the goals” PARK CITY, Utah (May 31) – U.S. cross country athletes headed for home Tuesday after a non-holiday holiday weekend and their first training camp of the preseason. The World Cup and Continental Cup athletes trained through the weekend, including a final roller-ski and run workout Monday while much of the nation marked Memorial Day with a day off from work. It was drill time,...
National Team Members Praise Conditions May 15, 2006 – While most skiers have put away the skis for the season and dusted off their bikes and roller skis, Canada’s elite Nordic skiers returned to the Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre (host venue of the 2005 Greater Vernon World Cup) this week for some on-snow spring training. Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre Manager Mike Edwards was approached by an elite ski team from Alberta about hosting a spring...
CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKI ASSOCIATION MAY TECHNIQUE CAMP FOR MASTER/CITIZEN SKIERS RECAP Madison and Hayward, Wisconsin Central Cross Country Skiing brought one of the world's premiere coaches to Madison and Hayward for 4 days of meetings with the staff and athletes of our new 9 member CXC Team and offered an afternoon skate roller ski clinics. Clinic in Madison, WI A primary goal was to offer masters/citizen skiers world class technique coaching. Igor Badamshin skied...
Hi all – We had a great weekend of skiing here – both skate and classic skiing were terrific. The attached photo was taken at about 1:00PM, Sunday, November 13. As you can see, it's snowing here again. We have received about 4 inches of new snow since Friday night and there is more snow in the forecast for tomorrow. If the snow does continue, Doug Edgerton will shift to grooming with his big cat...
Dear campers! I can't tell you how much snow we have had but it is enough that the groomers are having trouble keeping up. All of our trails are open and being groomed with our heavy groomers, something that doesn't usually happen till the end of november. Skiing is GREAT!!! Check out the Main Street of Silver Star Mountain on the web cam at http://www.skisilverstar.com }. Some of our former campers have called expressing a...
The Yellowstone Ski Festival will take place during Thanksgiving Week on November 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, 2005 in West Yellowstone, Montana. The event’s highlights include a series of one, three and five day Nordic skiing clinics, the NorAm XC Supertour races, the Try It and Buy It Equipment Demo and an Indoor Ski Show. For over 25 years, West Yellowstone, Montana has played host to cross country skiers during the month of November....
We recently received the following pictures and comments from Petr Jalk Here are a few pictures from Aug-Sept Hudson Bay Glacier Camp in Smithers, BC, Canada. It's annual camp for BC team, development and talented squad. Enjoy it. Petr Jakl CCBC Regional coach
Humans performing one-legged hops uphill; running through the woods carrying “sticksâ€, at levels ranging from conversational pace, to all out, red in the face exertion; braving the pavement on two wheeled skis on a country road… what must the reindeer have thought? Though at first glance it would appear that the some type of bizarre show had come to the area, the reality was this is how avid Nordic skiers spent one weekend in September…...
This would be my third year coaching at the PNSA Junior Nordic camp in Trout Lake Washington, and the 2nd year bringing a group of juniors along from the East. It was a great camp for all of us and we are already looking forward to another trip out west in '06. A big Thank You goes out to Ben Husaby of MBSEF, for inviting us to participate. – Janice Sibilia, JLS sports It was...
Eli Brown of Fischer Skis sent us these photos of Day 1 at the US Ski Team's Lake Placid camp. How many coaches does it take to fix Chris Cooks skis? Ben Fick, 2005 Korteloppet Champ and high school skier is PSYCHED to be here! Morgan Arritola, the lone woman at this camp….looked strong today! 8. Kris Freeman and Andrew Johnson are on track. They were moving out today!
USST September and October Training Camp schedules September Lake Placid Camp Schedule Day Date AM (dist. Team) AM (sprint team) PM (all) Sunday 11th Travel Arrive Monday 12th VO2 int. skate Sprint progression Strength Tuesday 13th Run distance Run Bike ride Wednesday 14th VO2 int. class Sprint progression Strength Thursday 15th Run Run Off Friday 16th VO2 or L3 bound Sprint progression Strength Saturday 17th Classical dist Classical dist Off Sunday 18th VO2 int. skate...
US National Coaches Conference and Coaching Education Summit Lake Placid, New York September 24, 2005 Event Update: Goals and Schedule Released, Registration Deadline Moved, Coaches Education Materials Requested August 19, 2005 – For Immediate Release Contact Nathan Schultz 720.227.9400,
Far West Nordic just completed a summer training camp for Junior Olympic-qualified athletes in the high country of Yosemite National Park. Combining ski-specific exercises with long-distance running, hiking and roller skiing, along with some peak-bagging, swimming, rock climbing, ultimate frisbee, and more, this camp was extremely successful in keeping the athletes motivated and working hard during the summer. We camped out in Tuolumne Meadows at 8,600 ft. (2,120 meters) high in Yosemite, the highlight of...
WANAKA, N.Z. (Aug. 3) – For the fourth consecutive preseason, U.S. cross country skiers have gone Down Under – to New Zealand – to train at the Snow Farm outside Wanaka on South Island. And for the fourth straight preseason, they've found plenty of snow and long loops for a variety of training situations. “We could use a little more snow – you always can,” Head Coach (and newlywed) Trond Nystad said Wednesday after a...
Luke Bodensteiner, Nordic Program Director for USSA, recently informed us that the Italian National Ski Team will be holding a training camp in Park City, Utah from July 26-August 6. While their exact reasons for coming all the way to North America for a training camp are not known, Bodensteiner speculates that they want to hold an altitude camp in place where they can also train at low levels. They also might just want a...