The 2011 US J1 Scando trip ended with a bang, as both men and women turned in excellent performances in 3×3/5km relays, capping three days of racing and generally strong US results. The US men led the way in the relay, battling at the front, and just missing out on the podium, placing fourth, 13.7 seconds behind the winning Norwegian team. The result did not come easily, and could have been better were it not...
We had a fun last day here in Ostersund. It started off with getting up at 8:15 to say good bye to the Alaskans. Things were hectic and it was not pretty around Camp Sodergren. Needless to say they made it out fine and everyone went back to bed. ...
Today was the last stage of our three-day race series in Örnsköldsvik; the relay. Needless to say, we were all psyched to get our game faces on and show those Europeans our best. It was a great day. The USA women all had great races with Marion, Camb...
Yo yo from Ornsköldsvik! Second day of racing here and lets be honest USA rocks. Black uniforms were flying out there on the course today eating up the track! The day started off with the women's 5km freestyle followed by the men's 10km freestyle r...
HEY ALLA quick update from a tired crew! Today was awesome. We had 3 women and 3 men qualify for the rounds (big props to Big Logs qualifying in 4th) and a few within a second of making the heats. We re-dialed the skis for the rounds and off they we...
Today was a pretty chill day all in all. After breakfast the team hung out and got some homework done which was pretty successful. Almost all of the team went for a run before lunch. Then at about 3 we were out the door and headed to the venue. We we...
Ornskoldsvik: Day 1. After a buffet-style breakfast at the hotel, we headed to the ski trails. Thewalk was maybe 10 minutes to the venue (a bit longer than the 10 steps at Camp Sodergren) buttemperatures were nice and the day promised to be sunny.The t...
Todays Installment: Sharmila and Hannah...Wad up! We’re in Sweden! Today we said goodbye to Ostersund and left on our trek for Ornskoldsvik. The packing turned out to be quite an ordeal and may have taken longer than the actual car ride. We had to fi...
Another day in paradise. It was again slightly above freezing for the better part of the day with a slight breeze. The trails were recently groomed and quite fast. It was overcast for most of the with a little sun peeking out now and again.Today was ea...
The coaches (and friends) klister up in the kitchen to sneak out for a quick pre-lunch ski to work-off breakfast. [Still figuring out this Blogger interface, so you'll have to forgive that all the pictures are in reverse chronological order]That is som...
Today started out on a high note with pancakes made by Matt, Pete, and Kate. We topped them with nutella, strawberry jelly, pineapple, grapes, raspberries, kiwi, and bananas, along with a drizzle of yogurt (from a carton) on top. In a word they were…...
The report from BigLogs:So today, day three in this truly amazing place, started off with a non-traditional skiing activity.Us boys in room 12 “Rodins” decided to show off to the whole team by making breakfast for some of the gang. Breakfast so far...
We finally got our last stranded traveler tonight. Now we are really up and running. The weather got even warmer today which led to some seriously fast skiing. Some of the boys crossed paths with Robin Bryntesson doing some intervals after his recen...
Almost everyone got here on time despite the east coast storms coming through. Pete and Hannah were stuck in Newark for an extra 24 hours, and Stella was in the same situation in D.C. but they should be on their way and will arrive tomorrow afternoon ...
Congrats to the new class:Annie Liotta, AWSMarion Woods, AWSCambria McDermott, SMSStella Holt, Glacier NordicSharmila Ahmed, Go TrainingHannah Boyer, FXC-NCSF*Heather Mooney, SMSForrest Mahlen, APULogan Hanneman, FASTPatrick Caldwell, SMSDylan McGarthw...
The athletes and coaches are all on their way home now. Some were up as early as 4am in order to make their early flights. It was a great trip on many levels; and as ready to sleep in our own beds as some of us may be, I don't think anybody really want...