CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING COACHES SYMPOSIUM MAY 20-22, 2005 CRESTHILL RESORT, HAYWARD, WI Dear Coaches, I am pleased to announce the 2005 Central Cross Country Skiing Coach’s Symposium. A learning weekend for Central Coaches at all levels; youth, middle and high school, junior, collegiate, young senior, club and adult. This year we will share with you the exceptional expertise and excellent knowledge of the coaches, wax technicians and Nordic program directors from the Central Division...
Source: Langrenn.com The Norwegian national team women’s coaches want to focus on individualizing and personalizing of the training for the skiers behind Bjorgen in order to make them better. Marit Bjorgen was in class by herself this season and the distance to the national team skiers behind her was bigger than what the coaches appreciated. – We need to focus more on the second best skiers. We will individualize the training better. Some of them...
Editor's Note:This article continues our discussion of the current state of US skiing and where we are headed in the future. To read the others, see the right-hand column of this page. This article is the US Ski Team's proposed Cross Country National Development System. This has been presented to the Cross Country Committee, and will be discussed at the conference in May in Park City. Why, What, How and When WHY: Our general level...
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on FasterSkier.com in April 2005. We are reprinting it because it is a good reminder for this time of year. April should for most skiers be the main recovery month. Some of you might have ended the season early while others raced until late March or beginning of April. The need for recovery is in other words very individual. An elite skier that traveled to races for six month...
April should for most skiers be the main recovery month. Some of you might have ended the season early while others raced until late March or beginning of April. The need for recovery is in other words very individual. An elite skier that traveled to races for six month and did 40-50 competitions might have a much higher need for complete recovery/rest than a citizen skier that raced 10-15 races. See our 2003 mini-series that...
The March issue This month we again include two articles: 1. Physical Training for your health and quality of life – a summary of the main “modern†concepts for endurance and strength training, also applied to all levels of athletes and active people. We borrowed this article from our friends at the University of Trondheim, Norway. Research professors Helgerud and Hoff are heavily involved in testing and training of high level athletes (including CC skiers,...
Skate skiing for 100 miles? Am I nuts? At 10,500 feet? With vastly changing snow conditions? All in a 18 hour time limit? Well, that’s exactly the point—I am nuts. This is the 3rd annual Leadville ski 100 put on by race director Bill Perkins, the longest Nordic ski race in the World. No flash, no hype, no crowds, no megaphones….only you against four 25 mile laps with 1,600 feet of climbing in each with...
The Susitna 100 is a 100 mile race through the frozen Alaskan wilderness. Competitors can choose their own mode of travel: ski, bike, or run/snowshoe. When I first heard about this race, shortly after moving to Alaska, I knew that I had to do it. I just love crazy adventures like this. Last year, I did the shorter version of the Su 100, called the Little Su 50K. I treated that race as a test...
FasterSkier.com has featured a number of ultramarathon ski races in recent days. Now we are declaring today to be Official Ultramarathon Day on FasterSkier.com, and we are bringing you a few more articles about extremely long races. A number of these races are claiming to be the longest ski race in the world. But which one is the longest? For instance, there is the Defi Boreal ( http://www.fasterskier.com/racing2128.html 2003 Leadville 100 Preview: http://www.fasterskier.com/racing350.html And in...
US Ski Team coach Trond Nystad has been reading the in-depth articles in our monthly FasterSkier.com Club newsletter. We recently asked him if these articles were helpful to him and if he thought the information was useful to others in the ski community. “I think the articles you guys provide in the Club Subscription Service are very interesting and of very high quality. I always look forward to receiving the newsletters as it keeps me...
Source: Swedish newspaper Expressen
A typical training day for us at Fasterskier.com living in Park City, Utah is skiing at the Olympic venue on the perfectly groomed trails of Soldier Hollow. Here are some photos from a different workout. Mill Creek Canyon only 15-20 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City is where we go skiing when we are “tired†of Soldier Hollow Olympic course’s perfectly groomed trails and instead want “real winter feelingâ€, lots of powder snow, big pine...
Source: Langrenn.com Norwegian skiers have struggled in skating for a long time, but did better than expected in the men’s pursuit at Worlds. The coach explains why. Note: These comments were said before the men’s 4 x 10-kilometer relay. Since Krister Sorgard took over as head coach for the Norwegian men’s team he has hammered them on their skate technique. We now see the results of the hard work. – We started a process where...
By Langrenn.com Several Norwegian skiers selected to compete at Worlds did not race well in Reit im Winkl, but those races were only used as a preparations for getting in shape for Worlds. – We used the races as hard workouts following altitude training in Seiser Alm. Our athletes’ performances saw huge swings. Some felt good on Saturday and some on Sunday. That’s the type of variations you get after altitude, says chief of cross...
Around these parts, one of the most famous races used to be something called the Nakkerloppet. About 15 or 20 years ago, it might have been described as one of the “the big three' of Ottawa area ski races, along with the Canadian Ski Marathon, and the Gatineau 55 (now the Keskinada). The Nakkeloppet does still exist, but only as an organized tour, not as a race. What made the Nakkerloppet special was that it...
After the high school race on Friday at Northstar (Tahoe), Mark Nadell took a bunch of fun photos of the skiers in the terrain park. These pictures show how XC skiing can compete with all the alpine fun and games, and still give you a workout too.
Source: Langrenn.com Norwegian NTB reported Tuesday afternoon that French skier Vincent Vittoz's B-test is negative. Vincent Vittoz's A-test, taken after the World Cup race in Nove Mesto on January 15, had traces of Furosemide, a banned diuretic agent. There was, however, nothing wrong with the B-test. There is for that reason no doping case against the Frenchman. Vittoz is currently in second place overall in the World Cup.
Source: Langrenn.com It was made public last week that French skier Vincent Vittoz’s A-test from the World Cup races in Nove Mesto was positive. Norwegian National team doctor Hans Petter Stokke thinks that it’s strange that someone is testing positive for Furosemide, which Vittoz’s test showed traces of. See Fasterskier.com’s story on Thursday February 3, 2005 Vincent Vittoz Tests Positive For Doping
FIS has a control system that works well and doping expert Bengt Saltin in FIS’s medical committee predicts a clean Nordic World Championship in Obersdorf this month, reports Swedish Skidsport.com FIS has the situation under control ahead of the upcoming Worlds. Dyn-epo is nothing new, but it’s still not on the market. It can however become a problem for the 2006 Olympics if we don’t develop a test method. But dyn-epo is not a problem...