14 tough female athletes 4 coaches 2 groomers 2 piston bullies 1 glacier 1 building 7.5 km of groomed trails 26 hours of skiing 3 helicopter loads of food 2 bottomless coffee makers 1 guitar 50+ trashy magazines 2 choreographed dances These are just some of the numbers that describe my week on the glacier. After a little over a week of dryland, we drove to Girdwood which [...]
We had an afternoon off during the dryland portion of the camp and it was the perfect timing for a Dartmouth reunion and sightseeing trip with Anchorage native Eric Packer. Eric took Sophie Caldwell, Rosie Brennan, and I to the port town of Whittier. It was about a 45 minute drive to a 6 mile [...]
One of my favorite things about summer is fresh berries, especially blueberries and raspberries. On Sunday afternoon, Clare and I joined some of the Hosmer Point campers to pick blueberries on a farm off the North Wolcott road. Our group brought back over 60 lbs of berries for the dining halls at Hosmer Point and [...]
The US Women’s team camp plan was changed this year and our summer snow camp was changed from New Zealand to the Eagle Glacier in Alaska. The plan was to organize a huge women’s group with many of the top North American racers for a week of dryland training and a week of glacier skiing. [...]
This is how we get up and down the access road. Would you pick him up?
Every June, hundreds of communities across the United States join an international celebration of Olympic Day to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games. Olympic Day events vary from site to site, but they are all designed to promote fitness and well-being, as well as Olympic ideals, such as fair play, perseverance, respect and [...]
Hi All, this is Maria Stuber writing my first blog post as a Craftsbury Green Racing Project athlete. I’m up at the Outdoor Center for my third week of training with the team. Since I moved out East in January, I have been doing a lot of training on my own and it feels really [...]
I just returned from my first testing camp in Park City, UT. We do a lot of testing in Craftsbury and it’s usually something that I really dislike but with lots of new tests planned, I was much more excited than usual. The schedule for this testing was intense and comprehensive with VO2max and submax [...]
Such a typical scene. It’s mid-June and I’m in Lake Placid, struggling to put one foot in front of the other to finish a long skate workout. In front of me, two of my biathlon teammates are discussing how to make the perfect stir-fry. “You start out with a simple mixture of sliced onions and grated [...]
The rough coldframe I made using scrap wood and a $5 window from the dump. I planted some spinach in it, but I'm sort of expecting that it won't germinate...I think its too cold even for a coldframe. But its a fun experiment!
Hi Everyone! For those of you who don’t know, I’m in New Zealand right now, and I’ll be here for almost two months. Nils and I arrived about a week ago, and then spent several days visiting his family–first in Christchurch, where we got to see firsthand some pretty dramatic earthquake damage. We went for [...]
I have fully unpacked and moved into Elinor’s house with the rest of the GRP. Lately I’ve felt myself in a constant state of packing and unpacking as I repeatedly shuttle my belongings between Craftsbury, Hanover, home, Europe, and elsewhere. It has been over two years since I have stayed in one place for [...]
The GRP crew kicked off our racing here in Sun Valley with the 50k at US Distance Nationals this last Saturday. The weather here in Idaho has been a mix of fresh snow overnight and sun and clouds during the day making for some great mid-winter conditions. The morning of the 50k we were greeted [...]
I am not a crier. I would say that on average, I cry perhaps two or three times a year. I’m sure that in my 23 years of life here, there have been some years when I didn’t cry at all (they were probably in high school). But so far in 2011, I have already cried [...]
World Champs have come and gone and I’m still having trouble finding the best words to describle the experience. It was downright amazing and an event on a level above anything that I’ve ever seen. Norway loves Nordic skiing. The atmosphere at Holmenkollen was a testament to that devotion. There were usually more spectators lining [...]
Late last week: blue skies and temps in the 20s… Saturday: Marathon Tour, very windy, tricky waxing, rain showers begin in the afternoon Sunday: 12 hour Torrential Downpour… … Switching to blizzard and one of Vermont’s bigger snowstorms in recent memory Tuesday: Back to blue skies
We’re now in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria and let me tell you, its not a bad place to be! We have three races here starting on Friday, but for now we’re enjoying a few relaxing training days in the sun under the alps. We’re staying in a house located at the foot of the road [...]
Our first OPA races in Rogla were tough; everyone has been feeling the lingering effects of a long two days of travel which included almost twice as much time in the car as on the plane, as well as slowly adjusting to the 1500 meter altitude. For all of us, this is our first time [...]
We’re in Rogla, Slovenia right now which is a ski resort way on top of a mountain. At first it was really clouded in and windy and snowy, but today it cleared up and was beautiful!! We’re here for OPA races, which are sort of like the SuperTour of central Europe. Most of the big [...]
I only have thirty minutes before the start of the men’s relay here at World Championships, so I had better get going pretty soon, but I wanted to send back a little update on the scene here. It’s totally awesome! That’s my update. OK, gotta go. No, just kidding, I’ll give you a little more than [...]