So you imagine when you are headed off to the World Cup, everything is going to be very well organized and taken care of. But in reality you could find yourself in the middle of Lapland in a mini van whose gas light has been on for close to two hours with only a handwritten [...]
In the past eight days I have been able to check something off my life list four-times over: racing in Europe. Check! It has been an exciting experience, to say the least. Watching Olympic medalists and World Cup regulars train and then starting in the same races as them has been pretty amazing. Today marked the [...]
Today we had some classic races in Muonio. For the women, it was just 5 short kilometers, and Petra Majdic won by almost twenty seconds. Ida had an amazing race though, finishing 25th, and Hannah was 56th, sandwiched between Liz Stephen and Morgan Arritola. Lauren and I were pretty close to the bottom of the [...]
Today I felt like I was thrown into the big leagues and it was scary….but fun! It felt too good to be true when I heard 5th place announced after my name as I hung over my poles in an exhausted state after today’s qualifier. Really 5th… my goal had just been to qualify. Today’s [...]
First of three races down for the weekend this morning against one of the deepest fields I’ve ever raced. Ida crushed the qualifying again in 5th just behind the likes of Petra, Kikkan, and Justyna Kowalcyk. A pretty impressive performance for her, and we’re all hoping she gets the nod for a World Cup start [...]
When we were leaving for Finland, we were pretty afraid that we were going to be terribly bored over there in the great white northland. After all, we were going to be essentially doing a four-week training camp – longer than any of us had ever done before. How could we keep from getting bored [...]
Racing season starts in earnest this weekend. With that in mind, I’d like to share a series of my favorite awesomely bad race-related cliches: - Pin it - Hammer down - Get after it - All in - All out That’s all for now. Really I just wanted to post a blog before Dylan posted his blog.
A year’s worth of trail work and clearing projects around the Craftsbury Outdoor Center have added up to one giant log pile, towering over Elinor’s field. Will Strong, a colorful Craftsbury native and current Wolcot resident brought in his portable saw-mill to turn our log pile into some lumba’ and a big pile of sawdust [...]
Did you hear? We had our first race on Sunday, a classic sprint here in Muonio! It was a pretty interesting experience. We’re used to having bizarre sprints to start the season off after last year’s 6-minute, point-to-point extravaganza in West Yellowstone, but Muonio took things in the opposite direction. The races were only 780 [...]
Two weeks ago, the rest of the Green Team piled onto a plane for Finland with a bunch of ski bags that weighed exactly 50 pounds. I waved to them as they drove away from Elinor’s and I felt a little lonely not to be joining them. I decided to go to biathlon trials races [...]
When we’re not skiing, we have lots of free time here in Mounio. And for a lot of that free time its dark out. Also, I have only three days left on my month-long Adobe Illustrator free trial. I’ve been meaning to play with ai for a while now, but whenever I started trying, I’d [...]
Since we arrived in Finland, Hans and I have been able to shoot a few times at the range here in Muonio. Shooting in the cold and on skis was definitely an adjustment for me. I had a lot of trouble zeroing and settling down the first couple of times we did easy combos. Another [...]
It’s true. For real. Like, 2 time world champ Axel Teichmann. He caught me makin yellow snow. Let me set it up for you in 4 parts that had to come together all at the right moment, like a perfect storm: So as you should know by now, it gets dark here early in the day. That [...]
Ollie checks in with some fun observations from Finland.
Hey all- Here’s my story: After the long trip over that you’ve all read about by now and a great night in a tiny bed, we all went skiing. There’s a fair amount of snow here (and more coming all the time) but they only had a 3.8k loop open on snow they had saved [...]
Hey all- Here’s my story: After the long trip over that you’ve all read about by now and a great night in a tiny bed, we all went skiing. There’s a fair amount of snow here (and more coming all the time) but they only had a 3.8k loop open on snow they had saved [...]
Hey all- Here’s my story: After the long trip over that you’ve all read about by now and a great night in a tiny bed, we all went skiing. There’s a fair amount of snow here (and more coming all the time) but they only had a 3.8k loop open on snow they had saved [...]
Our first few days in Muonio have been pretty interesting. The skiing is great so far – it snowed a bunch in the last 24 hours and today there were many more trails open, which gave us all the opportunity to go on some adventures. I got sick of skiing around the short, well-groomed loop [...]
Greetings from Finland! After a long couple days of travel we are now settled in our home for the next three weeks: Muonio, Finland. The flights over were pretty uneventful, except that our plane to Paris was remarkably empty so we were all able to stretch out and sleep a bit during the flight. As our [...]
Well the whole Green Team group made it safe and sound through security here in Logan Airport and are waiting at the gate for our plane. Travel days usually are a drag. Traveling in a group even more so. Traveling international in a group goes from being unpleasant to just comical, and our check in [...]