Expedition gives new meaning to the term cross country By TERRY SMITH Express Staff Writer Taking cross-country skiers on a summer backpacking trip seemed like a good idea to Rick Kapala, so he organized 16 members of his junior ski team into an expedition and took them on a 110-mile jaunt across the Frank Church Wilderness. Ten days later, with sore feet, increased physical and mental endurance, a new admiration for the Idaho wilderness and...
June 30 to July 6, 2006 Lake Placid Olympic Training Center Compiled by NENSA Program Directors Janice Sibilia and Stuart Kremzner The NENSA Elite Camp was held at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid June 30th — July 5th. Twenty-six of the regions top junior and senior skiers participated, along with 8 regional coaches, USST coach Pat Casey, and University of Utah’s Eli Brown, on hand to guide and educate. The OTC is one...
I’m overtrained. I’ll admit it. But it is all part of the plan. Only by stressing our bodies just beyond our limits, do we progress. Of course, the stress must be followed by recovery. That’s why I’m taking it easier this week. The body needs time to heal, to repair the damage we’ve done, and build things even better than they were before. It’s an amazing process. For ten years, since I was twelve years...
Cross Country Alaska is pleased to announce its July dryland training camp for developing elite skiers. The camp will begin on Tuesday morning, July 11 and run through Saturday, July 15. The camp, to be held in and around Anchorage, is being run in cooperation with US Ski Team development coach Matt Whitcomb. Matt will be on hand to help lead all the camp workouts. He will also give a talk about the US Ski...
Athletes from around Aroostook County and Southern Maine gathered in Ft. Kent for the summer’s first training camp. A well energized staff from the Maine Winter Sports Center and U.S. Biathlon Team greeted the athletes as they arrived at the Lodge, the newer apartments on the campus of the University of Maine-Ft. Kent. Focusing on the basics, body position in both classic and skate skiing as well as biathlon shooting position were high on the...
The REG Camp in the beautiful Wood River Valley was attended by 40 of the top junior racers from all over the west as well as 15 top coaches from around the region. Day one kicked off with skate video technique work and a great bounding workout with blood lactate monitoring. A couple of the girls weren't so happy to see the blood, but they got back up and got the job done none-the-less. Everyone...
Marthe Katrine Myhre (21) has struggled with anorexia and has been hospitalized for a total of more than one year. She is now warning athletes about dieting. – Very few cross country skiers need to lose weight. Its plain dangerous to diet, says Myhre. She knows better than most people what eating disorders are all about. She has had big problems with it from when she was 15-years old until two-three years ago. She has,...
Junior World Champion and World Cup race winner Petter Northug believes that Jan Egil Andresen will lose out by reducing his weight and losing muscle mass. — I’d rather be a few kilos over race weight, he says. http://www.fasterskier.com/racing3201.html Source: Langrenn.com
Source: Langrenn.com The Norwegian junior national team completed their second camp for the season last week. The first camp was dryland training in Oslo in May. Six days with skiing was this time on the agenda. Coach Fredrik Aukland had this to say: – We chose Sognefjellet since we wanted a period with volume and technique. It’s important to spend time on technique when we are together Aukland was especially impressed by the girls test...
TECHNIQUE AND TRAINING CAMP FOR MASTER/CITIZEN SKIERS July 6-8 Cresthill Resort, Hayward, WI CXC Skiing is pleased to announce a technique and training camp for master/citizen cross country skiers. This camp will offer valuable information for all amateur athletes; first through eleventh wave Birkie skiers and off season cross trainers. Train shoulder to shoulder with CXC Ski Team athletes. Learn from the CXC Team coaches and well known guest coaches. CXC has purchased, and several...
Western State College and the Crested Butte Gunnison Nordic Team will be hosting a summer dryland camp this July 12-16 at Western State College of Colorado and throughout the Gunnison Valley. The camp is headlined by Olympian Coaches and will take advantage of the great training opportunities found in the Gunnison Valley. Scheduled to coach at the camp are Olympic Skiers, Wendy Wagner, Abby Larson, Ingrid Butts and Rebecca Dussault. In addition, NCAA and Rocky...
Madison Technique Rollerski Clinic and Workshop Recap Last Monday and Tuesday CXC Skiing provided learning opportunities for high school, college, and master/citizen skiers in the Madison, WI area. Andre Watt conducted a two day clinic for skate and classic techniques with dry land and rollerski drills as well as answering questions about training and cross country ski equipment. Monday Skate Clinic “I was very excited to see the enthusiasm and energy that the Madison community...
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...
Axel Teichmann had to have surgery on an injured leg. It looks like there is no end to the German ski star’s bad luck. He was sick this winter and didn’t get to race in the Olympics. Then he lost his A-team status on the German team for the upcoming season. And now he got injured and had to have surgery. It’s expected that he won't be able to fully load his leg and train...
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...
Members of the Canadian National Team have been skiing at the Auburn Ski Club near Truckee, CA this week. Mark Nadell of Far West Nordic sent us some pictures. The famous Tav Streit poaching some spring skiing action Chris Jeffries
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...