Training

CXC Team Elite Team Athletes Kristina Owen and Heather Zimmerman Report On The Two Week Training Camp At The Lake Placid Olympic Training Center: The CXC Elite Team recently completed a two week monthly camp in Lake Placid, NY. We stayed and trained at the Olympic Training Center, which provided an ideal environment to make huge gains in both fitness and technique. The weather was excellent for the first couple days: chilly, but clear skies....

At the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center a banner in the foyer greets patrons: The US Olympic Committee wish America’s best continued success as you challenge yourself to be the World’s best. Remember always that “the will to win is nothing without the will to prepare.” With this mission in mind, the U.S. challenged themselves and teammates in a thirteen day training camp in Lake Placid. For the fourth consecutive year the US team has...

HAYWARD, WI – The CXC Elite Team ladies, in conjunction with Ski and Tea, are proud to announce a series of women specific clinics in the Hayward area. Ski and Tea is an exciting new women’s training group in the Hayward area. They focus on having fun and building a sense of camaraderie that encourages women to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The CXC ladies are very excited to share their vision by hosting a series...

Even though the calendar says autumn, it was truly a summer-like feel to the final dry-land (hopefully!) training camp of the Far West Nordic season. For the second year in a row, 14 top athletes from the division met in the Eastern Sierra for an all-too-brief weekend of high-altitude/high-intensity workouts at the Virginia Lakes Fall Training Camp. Set in an unbelievably beautiful lakes basin at 9,600 ft. elevation, between the eastern California hamlets of Lee...

13 CXC Team athletes recently completed their 2 week September training camp at Cresthill Resort in Hayward, WI. The weather threw everything at them and was basically spectacular. The efforts put forth by the athletes mimicked what Mother Nature offered. Following are the weekly reports on the activities by CXC Team members Bryan Cook and Alastair Duncan: Our team dinners cooked by the athletes at Cresthill were great fun with food from all over the...

Getting ready for an Olympics close to home is a big advantage… and we're using it! Today my fellow US Ski teammers and I traveled out to the 2010 Olympic cross-country venue, Whistler Olympic Park (becoming affectionately known as WOP), for a team sprint simulation on skate roller skis. Unfortunately the ski trails are not fully accessible by roller skis, so the coaches improvised and we held the time trial on the access road leading...

Today was Sprint Relay day at the September USST Whistler Camp. This training session is of particular interest to Kris because he’s one of a handful of guys who are on the list as potential members of the two-man team that will represent the US in the sprint relay at World Championships. Today was one of a number of events and training sessions that will be considered in picking the team. Of course, the most...

Even though there’s still a few weeks of summer, the Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the transition to the Fall training season, and Far West Nordic has wrapped up a highly successful series of summer Junior training camps for 2008. JUNE LAKE CAMP (recap by Nancy Fiddler) Our first “all-comers” camp of the season was the ever-popular, traditional June Lakes Camp, held in the beautiful eastern Sierra Nevada area in July. Led by Far West’s...

We are happy to report that the first MBSEF Mt. Bachelor Dryland Camp was a huge success! Instead of basing the group of 20 at one location, we loaded up the vans and moved campsites for the two nights, sleeping out under the stars, finally moving into the Mt. Bachelor Alpine Lodge for the last three nights. During the day, workouts varied from distance rollerskis and adventure hikes with gorgeous views of central Oregon to...

With summer coming to an end, TeamToday again features new content – a photo summary of the last months and a look at the current training camp at the Olympic venue. Kris Freeman The US Ski Team is currently in Whistler, BC for a training camp. In the usual TeamToday fashion, a picture is worth a thousand words. Photos of America's best hard at work… See them all… Lindsey Williams http://www.teamtoday.org/Stories/tabid/391/ctl/Details/mid/763/ItemID/1176/Default.aspx Source: TeamToday.org

Two CXC Teams, Senior and Junior, recently concluded their monthly training camp at the US Olympic Education Center in Marquette, MI. Following are weekly reports from Elite Team members Caitlin Compton and Maria Stuber: The weather has been extremely cooperative and all training sessions have been very high quality. The CXC Junior Development Program had the opportunity to join the Elite athletes for most of the workouts this first week, which created an impressive mass...

On the tenth of August 17 athletes, two coaches and three coach / assistants gathered in Keene, NY for Burke Mountain Academy’s August training camp. Described as “Hard” in pre-camp information, the week was designed to test athletes’ fitness levels and to give them a guide for training going into the Fall. The schedule had an intensity bias, with hard workouts following hard workouts and recovery periods requiring attention so as not to waste them....

The view from the back of the pack. From L-R: Koos, Cook, Wadsworth, Newell. (Photo by Paul Murray). “As a team we really feel New Zealand provides the best on-snow training in the world, said Wadsworth. “We’ve been to the Haig. We’ve been to Dachstein. New Zealand’s got them all beat. It’s the absolute best skiing in the world. Sitting at 1600 meters, it’s not too high. You can get in quality speed and interval...

HAYWARD, WI – XC kicked off the 12th annual Technique Development Camp at Telemark Resort on Monday, July 28. The camp is sponsored by the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation and included participants ranging from beginning J3-J4 skiers to master skiers and a coaches education block. The majority of the skiers were high school age. Meals, lodging and most training was provided by the excellent staff and facilities at Telemark. Sessions were led with a solid...