The calendar is closing in fast on July, but that hasn't stopped some of the diehards from holding on to winter. We received the following report from Mandy Bowden in Montana. The skiing on Beartooth Pass continues to hold up well. We were skiing at elevations over 8000 feet where there is still several feet of snow. Because Beartooth Pass is closed from Red Lodge due to mud slides, the drive from Bozeman is over...
Beckie Scott was undecided whether she wanted to continue her racing career following the 2003-2004 season. She stopped training after the last race of the 2004 season and used the spring and most of the summer to figure out if she wanted to continue to race or not. This was not done to focus on the 2005 Worlds but rather to figure out if she would have the desire to continue racing through the 2006...
The Norwegian men’s team started their June on-snow training camp Friday last week. Here is their camp program. Source: Langrenn.com This is their second camp of the year and lots of volume training was on the agenda. Coach Krister Soregard explains that they are doing one camp every month and that the camps are usually the hardest weeks of the months, but that there is not that much difference between the camp weeks and the...
US Cross Country Ski Team Coaches and a selection of some of the nation’s best coaches will be presenting a 3-day coaching symposium at the US Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY September 23-25, 2005. A Summit on the topic of the Coaching Education Curriculum is open to all and will take place Saturday, Sept. 24th. The coaching symposium will cover topics on technique, training theory and discuss USST’s latest thoughts as well as...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen Norway’s junior team coach Jon Arne Schjetne uses the same principles as Svein Tore Samdal (Norway’s women’s coach) when he sets up the training for the best junior skiers. The two coaches have very similar training philosophies since they both studied together in Trondheim, Norway. -I have faith in training in periods, it allows one to focus on different things at different times. I want to avoid training the...
Source: Langrenn.com The Norwegian men’s team is experiencing good skiing conditions for their June camp at the Sognefjellet glacier.
Source: Langrenn.com Over the last few weeks there have been several articles on how the men and women on the Norwegian national team train. There are obviously some differences. First and foremost it deals with training prioritization, how one divides up the training volume from week to week. The men train hard and easy all the time while the women will have periods of up to week and a half once a month, of only...
Source: Langrenn.com Due to the high altitude of the Olympic Nordic events in Torino, Norway’s women’s national team coach Svein Tore Samdal is emphasizing the importance of his athletes learning how to ski hard at altitude before they get to the Olympic start line. Almost every athlete has experienced hitting the wall at altitude and Samdal is trying to teach his women how to avoid this. -We have to complete some good and hard workouts...
Reader Chris Axelson sent us this report and photos: The BSF Senior Team headed to Beartooth Pass over the Memorial Day Weekend for a little skiing. Winter is late leaving the Bozeman area and it continues to snow daily in the mountains with the snowline currently located at about 7,000 feet. The team headed down to the Beartooth Pass for three days of great skiing, horseing around and sunshine. For those of you not familiar...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen There will be no significant changes in the training plan for next year says the head coach of the Norwegian women‘s national team, Svein Tore Samdal. -It will be very similar to last year, says Samdal. The women on the national team have been following Samdal’s training regime for 2 years now. According to the coach, Marit Bjorgen and Kristin Stormer Steira are the ones that have completed the...
Source: Langrenn.com Translated by Anders Haugen Norway’s Marit Bjorgen is not going to change anything with her recipe for gold from last year’s training plan for the upcoming Olympics. Over the course of last winter Bjorgen was able to make things come together and prove to the whole cross-country world that she could win in any distance. She now wants to continue to use the training plan that has shown to give results. -There will...
APU Nordic Ski Center is offering a masters training camp at the Thomas Training Center on Eagle Glacier, August 8-13, 2005. The camp includes six days at the center (Monday to Saturday) skiing on the groomed trails on Eagle Glacier, and full use of the Thomas Training Center facilities. Coaching will be provided by the APUNSC staff, including technique sessions on snow, video feedback, and evening discussions regarding training. The standard camp cost is $720...
http://www.torbjornsport.com/store/videos.html for more information. Note: The videos are produced many years ago, however most of the content is still “must know†stuff for anyone serious about XC ski training. The drills seen on the videos are key in learning how to ski well and top World Cup skiers are still using good old “moose-hoofs†to build their endurance.
Reader Benji Uffenbeck reports that the crust is still nice and smooth up in Alaska! Benji wrote in: On June 7 I hiked up Ram Valley for about 2 hours to get to the remains of the snow. I was able to ski up and over Bombardment Pass and down the other side a little ways. While you can't ski for miles on end, there is still a decent amount of skiable terrain. The snow...
The real beauty of high-altitude “Adventure Skating,†I’ve found, is how fleeting the positive experiences can sometimes be, and that when things go “right,†it is truly an exceptional way of combining the feeling of gliding over snow while going to places that are remote and starkly beautiful. That being said, it is sometimes only with failure that we can really and truly appreciate those successful trips, and remember that the conditions don’t always align...
Source: CXC Central Cross Country Skiing is pleased to announce the addition of four-time Cross Country Skiing Olympian Nina Kemppel to the staff of the Central Regional Development Team Training Camp being held June 18-24 at Cresthill Resort, Hayward, WI. Nina will spend several days at the camp. She will lead a discussion group on goal setting as it worked for her, and discuss some of the highlights of her many years of national and...
The oldest skier on the Norwegian women’s team, Hilde Gjermindshaug Pedersen has decided to train more like Marit Bjorgen. Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen
Source: Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Lots of volume and intensity. Skating is still in focus at the first camp of the year for the Norwegian men’s team. The Norwegian men’s team completed their first training camp of the year last week. Coach Soregard wraps up the camp: – Lots of volume and intensity This was a “get going campâ€. The men did their first hard training week in their preparations towards next season....
By Langrenn.com — Translated by Torbjorn Karlsen Almost 700 junior cross country and biathlon skiers have signed up for what might be the World’s largest and most popular training camp of the year, the Scandinavian summer ski school. Daily TV reports will be produced by the camp’s hired production crew. Seven hundred skiers! These are numbers that the organizer Hans Jorgen Rena is very satisfied with. He is also excited about the names and quality...
Source: Norwegian SkiSport Magazine