From The sprint race, both for men and ladies, will take place on the 5th of September by night in fantastic scenery along the main street of Naama Bay. The main street is visited every night by thousands of tourists going to the myriad of small characteristic shops. After the race there will be the opportunity to spend an exciting night in one of the many nightclubs of the typically Egyptian town, to celebrate the...
The World Champions from last year’s Sprint World Championship were unbeatable in the 200 meter sprint rollerski races in Hamar, Norway this Thursday. A local super-sprinter did however beat the rest of the World elite. The “Super-Sprint” in Hamar had managed to attract much of the World’s elite sprinters, as well as the Olympic biathlon Champion Ole Einar Bjœrndalen. Bjœrndalen was however not speedy enough for the exceptionally short distance. No one was able to...
General thoughts What is efficient strength training for Cross-Country skiers? Very few of us can claim to have the exact answer. The question is usually not how to get stronger, but what is effective relative to skiing faster, and at the same time balancing this with other forms of Cross-Country training. It does not help to have big and strong legs and huge triceps when skiing up a long hill if your oxygen uptake (Max...
The top 3 skiers from the Sprint distance at the 2003 World Ski Championship is starting in Hamar, Norway, this Thursday. They will be challenged by the quadruple Gold medal winner in biathlon from the 2002 Olympic Games, Ole Einar Bjœrndalen. It is time for revenge at the Grand Prix rollerski Race in Hamar, Norway on Thursday. Norwegians Tor Arne Hetland and HÃ¥vard Bjerkeli will have the chance to “dethrone” the current World Champion, Thobias...
USST Report from New Zealand NZ National Championships New Zealand is having one of its driest winters in history. The Snow Farm still has over 2 hours of groomed skiing, and today for the New Zealand National Championship 5 and 10km classical — we had hard wax conditions (multi-grade and extra blue). The US Ski Team has been in New Zealand at Snow Farm near Wanaka on the South Island since the 4th of August....
Hard physical activity or training has a defining effect on the body, but perhaps not fully understood by many of our endurance athletes. The body itself is a most amazing organism that reacts to stimuli in many ways, and there are still many areas of human anatomy and physiology that are not completely understood. One of the areas we as endurance athletes are most concerned about, is how to make our body react to our...
Many of the world's best skiers will gather this weekend in Estonia for the Saku Suverull running/rollerskiing pursuit race. This will be the first major international test of the 2003-2004 season for most of these skiers. The start of the prologue is individual, with 30 seconds intervals. Mass start will be used in the running competition where racers are aligned in two columns, according to the results of the prologue, with the interval of 2...
Last year’s Junior World Champion Johan Kjœlstad beat all Norwegian National Sprint Team members and Swedish World Sprint Champion from Val Di Fiemme, Tobias Fredriksson in a test race in Trysil, Norway. The Norwegian Sprint Team is currently in the middle of an intensive training camp, and invited last year’s World Sprint Champion to a rolleski test race last weekend. With Fredriksson, Tor Arne Hetland and HÃ¥vard Bjerkeli on the start line, all three medal-winners...
Norwegian Sprint Coach Ulf Morten Aune says that National Teams must be better tactically in sprint and mass-start races. He says skiers could learn tactic from bike racers. “In Sprint we quickly see conflicts between caring for the individual skier and what is best for the team as a whole. Everyone wants to do well individually, but regardless of this there are things we can do better for the team. Here we can learn both...
Now the serious training starts. August is in a way the first month of fall, even though it is really still considered summer. It is however only about 3 months until the first competition starts. If you feel you haven’t trained optimally so far, then plan on skiing fast after New Years, not in November. If you’ve trained well all summer, you can ski fast the whole winter season. Some advise for your August training:...
Marit Bjœrgen, the 2003 Sprint World Champion, is back in shape after some illness earlier this summer. She ended up second in a recent National Team 8-km classical rollerski time-trial, 15 seconds behind Hilde Gjermundshaug. Results: 1. Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen 2. Marit Bjœrgen 3. Vibeke Skofterud 4. Jannike Østby 5. Tina Bay 6. Ingrid Narum 7. Marit Roaldseth 8. Ella Gjœmle 9. Hanne Pettersen 10. Laila Selbæk The Women’s National Team this past week completed...
Summer for the US Cross-Country Ski Team is officially over on August 2nd. On August 3rd we leave for the middle of winter, which lies 13hours over the Pacific Ocean in New Zealand. After a month in NZ we return to Park City, Utah, to begin fall training. The National team and Development team, as well as a small hand-full of promising non-national team athletes, have been training together in Park City this July. It...
July 26, 2003 The first ever Rollerski Sprint Race held in Cunjunction with Boise, Idaho's famous Twilight Criterium drew several thousand spectators to the streets of Downtown Boise. Despite an intense thunderstorm that delayed the start by nearly an hour, 38 racers rolled up to the starting line at 8:10 pm. Strong contingents from Boise and Sun Valley, along with top racers from Park City, Minneapolis, Bend / XC Oregon, the Maine Winter Sports Center...
September is the time of year to kick your training into high gear. The snow will be only a couple of months away! Join FasterSkier.com for a training camp on the Olympic trails of Soldier Hollow. These camps are suitable for all ages and abilities. John Aalberg makes a presentation at the June Camp
The Norwegian National Cross-Country Team members are training hard to fill the gap left by retiring stars. A potpourri of some of the team members’ summer training. Anders Aukland – tough rollerskiing 30-year old Anders Aukland ended up tenth in last year’s overall World Cup, after several podium awards, especially in classical technique. Since this winter’s calendar is without any Olympic Games or World Championships, the goal is improving to top three in the overall...
Some of our readers have e-mailed us and asked about the “Training with Torbjorn and Gordon†column. What happened to it? Well, we (Gordon and I) are still working and working out together, but this spring I focused on the new interview series with skiers and coaches from around the World instead of writing about “usâ€. We’ll get going again with more workouts, training stuff and “friendly duels†this fall. Langesund is a small town...
Thomas Training Center Ski Camps Athletes have two tremendous camps on Eagle Glacier Thomas Training Center The June camp was blessed with what many veterans described as the best weather ever for a camp, and several commented that the July camp was “doomed”, sure to have the worst weather. Those fears faded as the weather for the July camp was even better, without even a threat of “normal” periods of overcast, fog or rain. The...
The 50-km Olympic Champion from the 1976 Seefeld Olympic Games, Ivar Formo, lets our readers get a unique insight into his training Facts Let us first present Ivar Formo for all of you that are not old enough to remember his golden days: Born: June 24, 1951 in Oslo, Norway Results: Olympic Gold, 50 km, Seefeld 1976 Olympic Bronze, 15 km, 1972 Olympic Silver, Relay 1972 and 1976 World Championship Bronze 1974 and 1978 European...
Boise Twilight Criterium Rollerski Sprint
Short Report from the US Ski Team Including some training info Group training has begun in Park City, Utah for the 03-04 season. We have high goals including podium and top 10 finishes on the world cup this season and at the World Championships next season. We aim to win medals at the 2006 games in Italy. We have a large and very strong training group in town for all of July. The current crew...