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Part 5 – Early season Rollerskiing

FasterSkierApril 28, 2003

Introduction See the www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and Torbjorn have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you get fit, create and reach goals, ski faster and have more fun. A great selection of rollerskis can...

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Part 4 – The NBA Playoff Workout

FasterSkierApril 23, 2003

Get off the couch and start working out – Part 4 By Torbjorn Karlsen The NBA Playoff Workout Introduction See the www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and myself have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you...

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An Ode to Klister and Its Pioneers

FasterSkierApril 22, 2003

By Gunnar Kagge (Published in Aftenposten 4/16/03) Translated by Per K. Johnsen, Kongsberger Ski Club, Seattle Klister is synonymous with "Easter in the Mountains in Norway" in red, blue and universal. To smear klister onto the skis is hard enough, and to remove it is worse. But the worst is to cook one’s own batch. For those of us who take the spring ski trip into the woods around Oslo, klister is literally a "mixed"...

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Get Off The Couch, Part 3: Running and Hiking

FasterSkierApril 21, 2003

A mini-series of articles intended to get you going this spring. Spring Training: Biking Introduction See www.torbjornsport.com if you are looking for a personal coach to help you with training planning and workouts. John and myself have decades of racing, training and coaching experience. We even studied sport and XC skiing in College (who else in the US can brag about a College degree in XC Coaching)! We’ll help you get fit, create and reach...

Training

Part 2 – Biking

FasterSkierApril 17, 2003

Training

Nystad Interview On Wintersport

FasterSkierApril 14, 2003

Wintersport.as has posted an interview with US Ski Team head coach Trond Nystad. It is a pretty short interview, with only three questions, the best question being: “Traditionally the Americans have skied well at home, yet had problems in Europe. Can you give us some background for the success this winter for Freeman and Swenson in terms of training, background and other relevant information.?”

Training

Start working out now!

FasterSkierApril 14, 2003

Spring Training: Skiing A mini-series of articles intended to get you going this spring. I often see that skiers “spring breaks” are too long and contain too little variation. Good domestic skiers, masters or juniors don’t have the need for a long post-season mental and physical break like World Cup skiers do. They have spent months on the road, in and out of hotel rooms, and raced up to three weekly races from November to...

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Part 24 – Some Mistakes, But Mostly Satisfied

FasterSkierApril 12, 2003

Many ask if I am dissatisfied with the media, if I think they write and broadcast strange things or if I am misquoted. For the most part I have been satisfied, even though we do not need special detecting devices to find the individual situations I have not liked. There were a lot of misquotes in the beginning, before I knew that I could insist upon reading through the interviews before they were printed. No...

Camps Training

FasterSkier Cross-Country Training and Education Camp: June 12-15, 2003

FasterSkierApril 11, 2003

Park City/Heber Valley, Utah At the 2002 Olympic Venue – Soldier Hollow/ Heber, Utah Join us for some great altitude camps on the Olympic trails. Top international teams have raved about the dryland training (rollerskiing and running) and skiing at Soldier Hollow and the surrounding areas in Heber and Park City. Great terrain, scenic views, nice temperatures, super rollerskiing, fantastic hiking terrain, and great restaurants are some of the comments we've heard. Come join us...

Health Training

The Dangers of Waxing, or Lessons on finance and matrimony from the wax room

FasterSkierApril 10, 2003

I do much of the ski waxing in our house. I am not sure why this is. My wife has been racing competitively much longer than I have. However, she was racing at a level where there were coaches who tested and selected the wax of the day and just told her what to put on. This was also in the pre fluorocarbon/graphite/molybdenum era and waxing was much simpler then. The state of the art...

Lifestyle Training

6th Annual Elk Mountains Grand Traverse

FasterSkierApril 8, 2003

Crested Butte, CO to Aspen, CO March 28th- March 29th A vertical foot adding course change, extremely cold weather, and dry powdery snow led to perhaps the hardest Elks Mountains Grand Traverse yet. This extreme backcountry Nordic race, in its 6th year, saw slightly over 1/3rd of the field drop out or not finish. This race starts at the Crested Butte Community School at midnight, climbs over and around Crested Butte Mountain Resort, heads out...

Training

Part 4 – Final Chapter, For This Year

FasterSkierApril 4, 2003

We are very excited to bring you this look at Pete's year with the U.S. Ski Team. Part Four is below, Part Two is here

Training

Part 3 – European Campaign

FasterSkierApril 4, 2003

Pete Vordenberg is the Assistant Coach of the US Ski Team. He is the author of Momentum: Chasing the Olympic Dream, available now at Part Two is here. European Campaign ‘03. Our European Campaign began in Rumford, Maine – at the US National Championships. And God bless the people of Rumford, Maine. There is no more enthusiasm for putting on a ski race anywhere else in the world. They do it right in Rumford. After...

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Part 2 – Summer Training

FasterSkierApril 4, 2003

Pete Vordenberg is the Assistant Coach of the US Ski Team. He is the author of Momentum: Chasing the Olympic Dream, available now at Continued in Part Three

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Part 23 – In the Center of the Media Circus in Trondheim

FasterSkierApril 2, 2003

If we take a leap forward to the most recent world championship in Trondheim in 1997, the situation is turned on its ear. The media are often elevating us, and especially me, into the clouds. Now we have taken Gunde’s place. Some have written about â€œKing Bjœrn.â€ Everyone wants an interview, everyone wants me to be on their side to get their own exclusive scoop, everyone looks for funny, original twists. For me and my...

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A tale of the US Ski Team’s 02-03 Season – Part 1

FasterSkierApril 2, 2003

Pete Vordenberg is the Assistant Coach of the US Ski Team. He is the author of Momentum: Chasing the Olympic Dream, available now at

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Looking good, but ………

FasterSkierMarch 30, 2003

I just finished getting dressed to go ski on the first day of our recent trip to West Yellowstone. I was about ready to step out the door when my wife said, “You look good”. I stopped dead in my tracks. My wife does not frequently disburse compliments to me. In fact, it is a rare occasion that I do anything right at all. She must have noticed the slightly incredulous look on my face...

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Part 22 – The Media — For Better and For Worse

FasterSkierMarch 28, 2003

In the Shadow of King Gunde Journalists are there, always, everywhere. Without them it would be much duller, but also simpler. So I wanted to write about my relationship to newspapers, radio and TV. If I should use one word to describe the development for the almost ten years I have been on the national team, it must be change. The cross-country skiing national team relationship to the media has changed, the media have changed,...

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Road-trip: The California Gold Rush 2003

FasterSkierMarch 28, 2003

Go West The Karlsen’s took off from Park City,Utah by car right after school on Thursday March 20th – heading west for the California Gold and Silver Rush at Royal Gorge, North America's largest XC ski area on March 23rd. Royal Gorge is located in the Sierra Mountains about 50 minutes from Reno, Nevada. This is usually my last race of the season and the family- wife Kris and children Solveig (7) and Annika (11) were...

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Aalberg, Karlsen, Stray-Gundersen Team Up For Coaching Service

FasterSkierMarch 27, 2003

Ski Racers and Coaches: Are you looking for better results? Coaching and Team work opportunities with Torbjorn Karlsen, John Aalberg and Dr. Jim Stray-Gundersen Torbjorn Karlsen and John Aalberg are two of the better known XC skiing personalities in the US, and they have now teamed up to create a unique coaching opportunity for ambitious Olympic hopefuls and master skiers, as well as for coaches needing new ideas, education or a more structured program. For...

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