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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:...

Wednesday Workout: Hill Repeats with Utah Junior Logan Diekmann

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...

ESPN ‘Body Issue’ Prompts Diggins to Open Up About Past Eating Disorder

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...

Wednesday Workout: ‘Exceptional Off-the-Couch Fitness’ with Zoë Roy

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...

Wednesday Workout: ‘Real Work’ with Knute Johnsgaard

For this week’s Wednesday Workout (WW), FasterSkier is featuring Knute Johnsgaard, a native of Canada’s Yukon Territory. A 2018 Olympic cross-country skier and former Canadian World Cup Team member, Johnsgaard, 25,...

Wednesday Workout: U.S. Ski Team ‘Coaching Technique’ 101

The U.S. Ski Team (USST) wrapped up its latest spring training camp in Bend, Oregon, on June 1. One of the primary aspects of the annual camp is for the USST coaching staff to work on technique in a low-stress...

Wednesday Workout: Elghuffs with Britain’s Nichole Bathe and Annika Taylor

This week FasterSkier presents a workout from British national ski team members Nichole Bathe and Annika Taylor. Last season, both Bathe and Taylor competed overseas on Great Britain’s national nordic team. They were...

Wednesday Workout: Killer Ski-Specific Strength with the HardCore Training Center

This week's workout comes from Bill Nurge, head coach and owner of the HardCore Training Center in Ketchum, Idaho, who has a master's degree in exercise physiology. Starting July 28, Nurge and Matt Liebsch will be...

Sovereign Lake Hosts 1st Annual Enduro Ski Race (with Video)

https://youtu.be/7FE9Ln-E9wA VERNON, British Columbia -- Each year, the Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre reopens its trails in May to let skiers start the new training season on snow at its annual Spring Fling Ski Camp. In...

Wednesday Workout: ‘Good Old Fashioned’ Hill Climbs with Bryan Fletcher

When Bryan Fletcher retired from the Nordic Combined World Cup this spring, FasterSkier asked the national-team veteran and two-time Olympian for a workout that is sure to stand the test of time. Here’s what he had to...

From Cross-Country Skiing to the Marine Corps

Coming off his senior season at Colby College, Andrew Egger, 22, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, submitted the following article on how cross-country skiing has shaped his life and prepared him for the Marines. Egger grew up...

New Year’s Here: First Week of May Training Pics

While we covered who’s still skiing — casually, recreationally, backcountry, basically anything other than full-on training — last week, the start of May marks the beginning of a new season for year-round skiers. And...

Wednesday Workout: Building Intervals with Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt

It’s May 2 and the overall NorAm leader heading into the 2018/2019 race season, Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt, is champing at the bit to get back at it. Like most other pro nordic skiers, the 25-year-old Morin Heights,...

Who’s Still Skiing? More People Than You May Think

This article has been updated with additional information on pro skiers who volunteered with Skiku, and additional pictures from Montana and New York. * * * It’s the last week of April. Skier New Year, May...

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