Last summer I was able to join APU and Sun Valley skiing at the Thomas training center on Eagle glacier. (http://www.craftsbury.com/blogs/grp/?p=1910). Getting quality on snow time during the summer months is a huge asset to any nordic racer, and something still quite novel to life long Eastern skier. This year I was again hoping get [...]
Last week was the second week-long BKL camp of the summer, and I’m happy to announce we escaped without any casualties. In fact, one of the rollerski groups completed their session without any bloodshed! — a landmark accomplishment. Add to that the good weather, enthusiastic campers, and fun activities, and you can imagine that we [...]
Maddie waves to the camera on her way to the dock Astrid and Molley show off the guns First win of the regatta for Craftsbury's SBTC! Emily and Erin duke it out over 500m in the dash Craftsbury finishes second in the mixed 500m dash Henry and Ricky...
Today is a well appreciated rest day halfway through our camp with the Swedes and we’re all enjoying the time to relax and recover from a few big days of training in Salen, Sweden. The breakfast buffet, laundry, and some yoga are on the schedule for the morning and then this afternoon we will drive [...]
After we all got over the fact that our destination of St. Catharine’s, Ontario is actually SOUTH of Craftsbury, the athletes and coaches of the Small Boat Training Center hit the road on Sunday to start our journey to the place where legends are made: The Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Some of us spent the night somewhere in [...]
Between training sessions, quite a few of us (okay, mostly the girls…) enjoy spending time in the gardens around the Outdoor Center and Elinor’s. This has been my first summer in the East, and I’m finding the large variety of wild and garden plants, as well as the speed with which they grow, to be [...]
Between training sessions, quite a few of us (okay, mostly the girls…) enjoy spending time in the gardens around the Outdoor Center and Elinor’s. This has been my first summer in the East, and I’m finding the large variety of wild and garden plants, as well as the speed with which they grow, to be [...]
One of my long time biathlon teammates, Laura Spector, recently decided to not continue competing this year. Laura has always been an awesome training buddy who can be counted on for the longest biking or hiking adventures and I’ve missed having her around this summer. She was also instrumental in starting the forward momentum of [...]
Today was our second day in the Torsby Ski Tunnel in Sweden and I’m not sick of it yet! The tunnel is a 1.3km loop which you ski in one direction, then turn and ski it in the other direction, and the entire thing probably takes about 10 minutes. I expected it to be quite [...]
I’m sitting in the Burlington terminal waiting to start my trans-Atlantic trip to Sweden but currently looking out over the Green Mountains and reflecting on the summer in Vermont. This has been my longest block of training in Craftsbury in quite some time and it was awesome! While I love being on the road there [...]
Last week was the first of our two Bill Koch League summer day camps and we had 24 kids from all over northern Vermont who joined us for a busy week of ski training and other outdoor fun. It was a great group of kids who were certainly not lacking in enthusiasm or energy! [...]
On our active rest day this past Sunday, Lisa “The General” Schlenker took us on a nice 2 hour bike ride on the trails surrounding Craftsbury, with a few pit stops along the way. Our first stop was Hosmer Point, the kids’ camp down the road from ...
First, I’d like to announce a new addition to the Green Racing Project: Rowing! This blog will document the the exciting lives of the all new GRP Rowers both on and off the water, and will hopefully provide some insight as to what it is like to b...
We have less than a month until the London Summer Olympics begin and anticipation is building across the globe. Last Wednesday, June 27th, we celebrated Olympic Day right here in Craftsbury, Vermont at Hosmer Point summer camp. About 60 kids aged 9-14...
This week forty of New England’s top junior skiers came to Craftsbury for a training camp so we’ve had lots of company on the trails and roads during our training sessions. The first few days were cold and wet so we were all very excited ...
While visiting my family for Father’s Day, I ran across an old scrapbook in my childhood bedroom. One gem that I unearthed was a NENSA Newsletter featuring a story that the Sargent sisters and I had written together many years ago. It brought...
There is a lot to love about being on a mountain top. Refreshing breezes, a flow of puffy white clouds that tow splotchy shadows across ridge lines, and a lush carpet of contrasting peaks and valleys stretching across the land. I can see every shad...
It seems to me that spring is really comprised of at least 3 very short sub-seasons. In a period of about 3 weeks Craftsbury went from cold and gray and leafless, through that brief neon green leaf-springing, and into a sudden early summer. It was ...
What do skiing, mountain biking, sunburns, snowstorms, rainbows and lots of roundabouts all have in common? They can all be found in Bend, Oregon in the month of May. For the first time in recent memory, the US Biathlon team sent a group of athletes ...
I started the first training camp of the year with serious race anxiety. My stomach was in knots, I was overly jittery from consuming too much coffee, and I was just trying to stay relaxed. It felt like the World Championships and my life was on th...