The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Executive Committee, of which FIS President Gian-Franco Kasper is a member, has approved the List of Prohibited Substances and Methods for 2007. The 2007 List is valid for the upcoming 2006/2007 season includes only minor modifications and is now online. View The List at the WADA website:
Andre Watt, Adam Swank, Nikolai Anikin, and non-racing friend Jason Wall have completed our month long bike trip around Europe. It was a great trip. Road biking around Europe is the best. You have a virtually unlimited selection of bike friendly roads to choose from. You can climb all the mountains you want on low traffic roads. The cars don't drive very fast and are considerate of bikers. Additionally, all the cars are tiny. They...
Check out these FasterSkier.com archive articles if you are looking for ideas and inspiration for your fall training. A Good Moose-Hoofs Interval Workout Sixteen good non-national team skiers joined the Norwegian national team for moose-hoofs intervals on the first day of the team’s camp at Hafjell on Thursday….. Ski Technically Better By Incorporating Time-Trials And Pace Workouts In an article called Get Ready For Racing With A Time-Trial Or Pace Workout posted on November 10th...
Bjorndalen Back In Sweden Again The World’s number one ranked biathlon skier, Ole Einar Bjorndalen is back in Torsby, Sweden for the second time this fall. It’s the skitunnel with biathlon range that first of all attracts Bjorndalen. But he is also doing his tests in the lab right next to the tunnel. This includes interval training on the lab’s rollerski treadmill.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (Sept. 25) – An expanded program, fresh coaching staff and an all-new approach to training is propelling the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team toward completion of another successful training camp in the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Village. http://ussa.smugmug.com/gallery/1919352 For audio of Lake Placid Camp:
The following was sent to us by Jesse Crandall, cross country ski coach at Western State College… Here are a handful of pictures of the Western State Ski Team training at Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, CO Saturday morning, September, 23rd. About a foot of snow fell in the mountains around Crested Butte and the skiers took advantage of the fresh white stuff and got in a good workout. If temps stay cool we should...
Kristine Vandbakk made the Norwegian junior national team when another skier pulled out and gave up her spot. But too much training ended with a bang, says the 19-year old. Kristine Vandbakk (19) had made a training plan as a “outside the junior national team†skier. But she didn’t reduce anything on her own plan when she suddenly made the junior national team when Ida Gjermundshaug Pedersen (daughter of Hilde GP) gave up her spot...
Athletes, at any level, find joy in their sport. Ultimately, our enjoyment of the sport motivates our involvement. Any skier can tell of the wonder of skimming across a well-groomed ski trail or the enchantment of experiencing a snow covered landscape on skis. The workouts and skis when we lack the wonder and the enchantment tend to be ignored and forgotten as quickly as possible. Experiencing a full range of emotions in all aspects of...
With one month to go before the World Cup opener in Dusseldorf, Germany the U.S. Ski Team preparations have moved east to the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center in upstate New York. The two-week training camp has taken advantage of Lake Placid’s low altitude, rolling terrain and U.S. Olympic Committee-funded accommodations. Athletes from XC Oregon, Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, CXC, and New England’s top juniors have joined the U.S. Ski Team in Lake Placid....
-Olympic medallist takes year off, commits to leading team towards 2010- Canmore, Alta.-Olympic silver medallist, Sara Renner, will compete for Canada on the international cross-country ski circuit until the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, but her journey towards Vancouver will have a unique and exciting challenge, Cross Country Canada announced on Monday. The 30-year-old from Canmore, Alta., and husband Thomas Grandi, a four-time Olympian and leader of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, are expecting their first...
Last Wednesday Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska celebrated its 20th anniversary with a party and a rollerski race on a newly-paved trail paralleling the park road. The race was organized by Ronn Randall of the Anchorage Parks & Recreation Department, who also organized a sprint rollerski race at Cuddy Park in Anchorage last month. With great weather for the 6:00 PM start, over 60 athletes showed up to take part. In the men's 10K Eric...
Over the weekend, FasterSkier.com received its first report of skiing for the 2006-2007 winter season. Eli Brown, head coach of the Utah Cross Country Ski Team, sent us the following pictures from Saturday morning at Alta, Utah. The Utah team was able to get in a bit of early on-snow training. Alta is at about 9,000 feet elevation and is a 30-45 minute drive from Salt Lake City. The snow came just a few days...
The World Anti-Doping Agency has decided it won't ban hypoxic chambers until further studies can determine their health implications. On Saturday, WADA ruled the chambers enhance performance and violate “the spirit of sport,” but chose not to add them to the list of banned substances and methods for 2007. More… http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/10887.0.html WADA's 2007 Banned Substances List: http://www.fasterskier.com/training3498.html
Kristin Stormer Steira (25) had a tough summer and hit the wall. She has now taken a break from training. http://www.fasterskier.com/racing2990.html Source: Langrenn.com
The CXC Team August camp started in Hayward in Mid-August and then joined MN Nordic Project for a four day camp on the North Shore of Lake Superior to wrap up 2 weeks of quality training. The Hayward section of the camp concluded with a skate rollerski time trial. Week one included more intensity, while the second week focused on aerobic endurance training. WEEK ONE: Day 1: We started with an easy jog, short strength...
On snow skiing and volume is the main focus for the Norwegian team’s Ramsau, Austria training camp. But Jens Arne Svartedal is warning about pushing too hard. The Norwegian sprint and distance teams arrived Ramsau before last weekend, while the women’s team arrived on Monday August 28. The nationalteam skiers have not been on snow since early June, so on-snow skiing is the main focus at the seven day long camp. Curious about the conditions...
Norwegian junior national team coaches Age Skinnstad and Fredrik Aukland were impressed by the fastest skiers in a recent rollerski time-trial at an open junior national team camp, but suggest that many need to train more V1 on rollerskis. “I’m impressed by the top skiers in today’s time-trial. Øystein Pettersen and Kurland Olsen tied for first in the boy’s race. Johaug skied very fast in the girl’s race and won by more than 40 seconds,”...
I am not sure whether to be impressed or disgusted. I am watching Brian Gregg double poling on the rollerboard and one of his back muscles is distracting me from my calf raises. “Look at that muscle,” I say to my fellow CXC teammate Garrott Kuzzy as my pointing finger tries to keep up with the offending muscle while Brian whooshes up and down the rollerboard. “Watch when he does dips,” responds Garrott carelessly before...
Marit Bjœrgen and Stig Roar Kveen won the 24 kilometer long rollerski race from Stœren to Budal for the third year in a row. Both set course records. Krister Trondsen was leading up to the 4-k mark, while Rune Muller took the lead after that. Kveen had lost a wheel right before the 4-k point, but quickly got a new ski. He then passed Frode Estil and Trondsen before he chased down Muller and passed...
Building the aerobic base. Distance and lactate threshold training. On-snow skiing. Time at altitude. Skiing powerful, but relaxed. Staying healthy. These are the phrases U.S. Ski Team athletes and coaches have bandied about in New Zealand. Now with the three-week camp coming to a close, the team is encouraged by the progress. “Back in May, pretty much across the board, our skiers were still in need of consolidating their aerobic base,†said USST national team...