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,...
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 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,...
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.
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
(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:...
This week, FasterSkier caught up with Bozeman, Montana, native Logan Diekmann, who's entering his junior year at the University of Utah. Diekmann, 21, is spending this summer training in Salt Lake City, taking summer...
Jessie Diggins is having a big month. Nominated for an ESPY Award (along with Kikkan Randall for “Best Olympic Moment” and Paralympic nordic skiers Dan Cnossen, Oksana Masters and Kendall Gretsch for “Best Male and...
BEND, Oregon -- Zoe Roy.
OK, OK. First things first. Don’t forget the umlaut.
So it’s Zoë Roy. (Zoeeeee. Not Zo.)
If you don’t know Roy and you’ve been to Bend, Oregon, well then, maybe you haven’t...