Source: Langrenn.com One of the Worlds best long distance skiers, Jorgen Aukland of Norway will bike less and kayak more. He is hoping that this will make him stronger at the end of Vasaloppet.
Poked, pushed, measured and evaluated. That's been the name of the game for the USST's World Cup and Continental Cup members for the last week in Utah. The USST coaching staff has put a greater importance on sport science to better understand the capacities and liabilities of America's top skiers. The tests measured endurance, power, strength, speed and coordination. Seeing how these factors change during the preparation period (with testing three more times through summer...
First of three camps in Park City “accomplished all the goals” PARK CITY, Utah (May 31) – U.S. cross country athletes headed for home Tuesday after a non-holiday holiday weekend and their first training camp of the preseason. The World Cup and Continental Cup athletes trained through the weekend, including a final roller-ski and run workout Monday while much of the nation marked Memorial Day with a day off from work. It was drill time,...
The 2006 CXC Coach’s Symposium brought a large group of coaches from around the Midwest as far away as Traverse City and Detroit, MI. Coaches received a great amount of information on basic principles of exercise physiology and sports training, physiology of strength training and developing strength programs, teaching methods of ski technique and basic principle of technique for classic and skate, and the science of waxing tips and techniques. bryan.fish@cxcskiing.org
Bengt Saltin (SWE), Chairman of the FIS Medical Committee, retired at the 45th International Ski Congress after having served on the Committee since 2000. FIS Newsflash had a chance to interview him after his last Committee meeting in Vilamoura (POR) earlier this week. FIS Newsflash: Did you have a specific agenda when you became Chairman in 2002? Bengt Saltin: My strength has always lied in conceptualizing and setting up structural frameworks for programs. When I...
A paragraph from my training last week: “I am already soaked to the core, even though I haven’t yet started the time trial. Rain is coming down in sheets and the road only twenty feet ahead is shrouded in fog. Before my warm-up, I drove to the top of Honey Hollow Road and measured it to be around 2 miles. As if I am about to jump into a cold pool of water, I start...
Presque Isle, ME—The University of Maine at Presque Isle just completed the first round of elite Nordic athlete testing in cooperation with the Maine Winter Sports Center. The university has invested more than $5 million in its physical education, exercise physiology and health facilities during the past year. A significant portion of those funds were dedicated to establishing a world class exercise physiology testing lab. Now, the lab has been put to the test—or more...
The Swedish national team is training on-snow in Meraker, Norway starting this past Sunday. There is enough snow in the Kirkeby mountain and the team has arranged for 10-kilometer of groomed tracks. All members of the sprint and the distance team will participate. Dryland training and skiing are both on the agenda. Source: Skidsport.com
The Executive Committee decided to seek broad stakeholder comment on the question of whether artificially-induced hypoxic conditions should be placed on the 2007 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List). The consultation process on hypoxic conditions will occur in parallel to the process implemented for feedback on the draft 2007 List which is currently in circulation. Following the consultation period, stakeholder feedback will receive full review by the WADA List Committee in September 2006, which...
National Team Members Praise Conditions May 15, 2006 – While most skiers have put away the skis for the season and dusted off their bikes and roller skis, Canada’s elite Nordic skiers returned to the Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre (host venue of the 2005 Greater Vernon World Cup) this week for some on-snow spring training. Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre Manager Mike Edwards was approached by an elite ski team from Alberta about hosting a spring...
CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKI ASSOCIATION MAY TECHNIQUE CAMP FOR MASTER/CITIZEN SKIERS RECAP Madison and Hayward, Wisconsin Central Cross Country Skiing brought one of the world's premiere coaches to Madison and Hayward for 4 days of meetings with the staff and athletes of our new 9 member CXC Team and offered an afternoon skate roller ski clinics. Clinic in Madison, WI A primary goal was to offer masters/citizen skiers world class technique coaching. Igor Badamshin skied...
Lukas Bauer, the Olympic silver medalist from The Czech Republic started his season preparations on May 1. in Oberwiesenthal, Germany, not very far from his own hometown in the Czech Republic. He was training with Rene Sommerfeldt’s training group consisting of Janko Neuber, Tom Reichelt, Benjamin Seifert and Rene. National team head coach Jochen Bechle is happy. – We need new impulses and the athletes don’t mind competition, says Behle to xc-ski.de
– I’m going to become a better skier by not being on the national team, says Jan Egil Andresen after being kicked off the team. He is not very complimentary about the “World’s best†national team. Source: Langrenn.com
Turbulence In Sweden: Fredriksson Critical To Braaten The Fredriksson brothers are considering leaving the Swedish national team unless the camp schedule is changed. Source: Langrenn.com Mathias Fredriksson is critical to national team head coach Inge Braaten’s program for the upcoming season. Braaten has together with assistant coach Thomas Alsagaard proposed a camp schedule to the skiers. Fredriksson was not happy with what he was presented. – I don’t agree with Braaten concerning the camp schedule...
The bike, running and rollerski season is already in full motion however some Utah XC enthusiasts are still skiing. With a lot of snow up at high altitude the skiing is still great in the Utah Mountains! Low night temperatures and an inch of fresh snow over night on top of the crust made for great skiing on May 6 when we (Lauri Humbert, Dave Knoop and Meiko Hoemke) skied from Guardsman Pass above Park...
Its getting to be late Spring, which means that crust skiing in the Sierras is just about perfect. Here are some photos and comments from Far West Nordic's Mark Nadell. Here are some photos from the latest Sierra Spring Skate Trip. Temperatures around here have been pretty warm in the evening, so we’ve not been able to do a lot of local trips, but this week it got a little cooler, and the conditions today...
At World Anti-Doping Agency's Executive Committee meeting this coming Saturday, the committee will discuss the use of 'artificially-induced hypoxic conditions', such as altitude tents, and whether they should be included on the 2007 list of banned substances and methods. If WADA was to ban hypoxic chambers it would have a wide-spread effect in all endurance sports, including cross-country skiing. Many top cross-country skiers, as well as cyclists, runners and others use hypoxic chambers to simulate...
Good technique (i.e. good work economy) and endurance are the two most important factors in ski training and ski racing for optimal performance. It’s important that each rollerski workout is used to make technical improvements. This will greatly improve your race efficiency. Here are some ideas for how to do that: What to work on Focus on relatively short rollerski sessions in the beginning of the summer. Increase the length of your rollerski workouts when...
A little over a week ago, a reader in Fairbanks alerted us to a story about a local skier, Alan Kendall, who had quite a story to tell regarding a recent ski. We emailed Alan to get his first-hand account. Here is his story. An account this story also appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Anchorage Daily News This past Saturday (Apr. 8, 2006) I was skate-skiing again down at Nenana on the...
Tim Kelley is always looking for new places to explore on his cross country skis. To him, cross-country skiing is all about skiing across the country. And the country he enjoys the most is the Alaskan wilderness, along with its remote villages and people. http://crust.outlookalaska.com/SpringSkiing2006/Kusko/