Winter greetings from snowy Falls Creek, Australia—home of the Kangaroo Hoppet Worldloppet Ski Marathon. Less than a week into my first trip to the Southern Hemisphere, I am beginning to settle into life Down Under at Australia’s highest ski resort. To say that things in Australia are “backwards” may be a little harsh; perhaps “upside-down” [...]
Getting ready for my first race Down Under -10km Classic tomorrow morning. Fortunately, I found the best wax tech in Australia and I’m very confident that I’ll have some fast boards. . .
If I took a picture of Falls Creek right now, you wouldn’t be able to see anything. Snowy, foggy, and windy, but there’s plenty of snow on the ground and I’m going skiing momentarily. Internet is pretty shady, but I’m going to try to get some posts from the trip up as soon as possible. I’ve [...]
Where do you start when you have one day to teach all that is cross-country skiing? The Central Cross-Country Ski Association (CXC) gave it a shot, hosting a youth camp for children ages 8 through 11 at Lakewoods Resort in Cable, Wisconsin on Monday, July 26. The day’s schedule was a busy one, as the campers bounced from one exercise to another, including ski-specific warm-ups, bounding, light strength, plyometric strength, swimming, Ski Erg races, laser...
This may be the only website where a post about the benefits of barefoot running is followed by a post about the excitement of stock car racing. . . Our July Camp wrapped up last weekend and Brian, Karl, Eric and I decided to take a 24 hour adventure up to the Chequamegon Peninsula on Lake [...]
I’ve been wanting to do a post about running barefoot for a long time, ever since reading “Born to Run” last fall, in fact. Yesterday, NPR played an interesting segment on All Things Considered that addresses barefoot running and even includes a video on their website showing various running techniques. The book “Born to Run” [...]
That’s right. Dogs: yes, but a pair of goats? I’d never been chased by a goat during a roller ski until yesterday. In fact, when I first saw the goats I thought they were two huge dogs chasing my teammate Eric down the road. When we caught up to them, they started chasing us too! [...]
Ahh yes, the annual Regional Elite Group Camp. The first two days of this camp can be brutal, kicking things off with a 3000m running time-trial on the track, followed early the next morning by strength testing. A new component was added to this year’s tests: the ski erg. I’m pretty sure my sister Martha spends [...]
Ski racing might be fine and dandy in the winter, but when there’s no snow to be found on this hemisphere, it can only mean that bike season is upon us. The Tour de France started last weekend, along with the Tour of Austria, as the King himself reminds us. Here in Wisconsin, it was [...]
Last Friday, in conjunction with International Olympic Day, Premier Physical and CXC Skiing, held Olympic Day in Minocqua, Wisconsin. The event was held for kids of all ages to get together and get exposure to a wide variety of sports and activities. There were over 100 kids from Northwestern Wisconsin who came out to join in [...]
Yes, this is a really old update, but my new buddies, Pat & Ted Baer, from Pennsylvania just sent some photos from my spring break in New Orleans. Dan Skold has been living and working in New Orleans for the past 3 years, helping to rebuild New Orleans as a super intendant with Habitat for Humanity. [...]
Greetings loyal garrottkuzzy.com followers. After a brief stretch of regular updates at the end of our last CXC training camp I have fallen off the proverbial blog wagon. Have no fear; I am alive, doing well, and avoiding contact with this time vacuum, my computer, as much as possible. Instead, my days have been filled [...]
Thursday marked the final day of the first training camp of the summer for the Central Cross-Country Ski Association (CXC). Based out of Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, the camp consisted of 10 days of training at various locations ranging across the St. Croix Valley. With previous head coach Bryan Fish around for the first week before moving on to his new position with the US Ski Team (USST), the camp also functioned as a...
We’ve wrapped up our June Camp in Marine and are now back at our respective homes. One of the highlights of the camp was getting together with the St Croix Valley Ski Club, a Minnesota Youth Ski League club, for an afternoon of skills development and games. This is the third summer we’ve worked with [...]
Getting fast and moving small tires in Osceola. . . We ended a productive June Camp with a trip to Battle Creek for a workout with the Sisu Skiers training group on Thursday night. These guys were flying, literally, catching air on their rollerskis and moving fast! Somehow we avoided the rain and tornado’s that surrounded [...]
This weekend is the Summer State Championship for Special Olympics Minnesota. As part of the event, Minnesota Olympians were invited to take part in a fundraiser and help participate in the festivities. Special Olympics spokeswoman and global messenger Katie Timmer addresses the audience. She’ll be representing Minnesota at Nationals in Nebraska this July. Here, Katie poses with [...]
A week into our first full training camp of the season, things are dialed. Fish is off at his new job in Park City and the 2011 CXC Elite Team is looking strong in Marine on St Croix. Our new coach, Jason Cork, finally took the reins today while assistant coach Gus Kaeding cracked the [...]