I have just returned from my final training camp at Eagle Glacier. Looking back at my logs I have been up there for 33 camps starting in 1993 when Jack Novak, who was up with us for this camp, was one year old. It was a solid week with 24 hours of trai...
I have just returned from my final training camp at Eagle Glacier. Looking back at my logs I have been up there for 33 camps starting in 1993 when Jack Novak, who was up with us for this camp, was one year old. It was a solid week with 24 hours of trai...
I have just returned from my final training camp at Eagle Glacier. Looking back at my logs I have been up there for 33 camps starting in 1993 when Jack Novak, who was up with us for this camp, was one year old. It was a solid week with 24 hours of trai...
I have just returned from my final training camp at Eagle Glacier. Looking back at my logs I have been up there for 33 camps starting in 1993 when Jack Novak, who was up with us for this camp, was one year old. It was a solid week with 24 hours of trai...
When James Southam lined up for the start of a 30 k pursuit race at the Olympics in Whistler in February, it was the first time he’d done so all year. At the 2009 World Championships in the Czech Republic, Southam faced a similar challenge: the pursuit race there was only his second of the season, following a World Cup in Whistler earlier that year. Of the 24 SuperTour races scheduled by the U.S. Ski...
Two weeks ago for the first installment of our “Pro Workout” series, we featured a high speed session with Olympic sprinter Simi Hamilton. This time around we literally shift gears, talking with Alaska Pacific University’s (APU) two-time Olympian and distance stalwart James Southam. With three trips to World Championships in addition to his Olympic appearances, Southam is entering the final year of a strong career that also includes multiple National Championship titles. For the last...
The race season ended today 4k in to the race. A pretty lame way to end an otherwise very good season. On the flight out here my ears got plugged and my right ear would not pop for 2 days. In that time something festered and left me with a sinus infect...
The race season ended today 4k in to the race. A pretty lame way to end an otherwise very good season. On the flight out here my ears got plugged and my right ear would not pop for 2 days. In that time something festered and left me with a sinus infect...
The race season ended today 4k in to the race. A pretty lame way to end an otherwise very good season. On the flight out here my ears got plugged and my right ear would not pop for 2 days. In that time something festered and left me with a sinus infect...
The race season ended today 4k in to the race. A pretty lame way to end an otherwise very good season. On the flight out here my ears got plugged and my right ear would not pop for 2 days. In that time something festered and left me with a sinus infect...
Yesterday was a rough. I just didn't have the next gear when it counted and never felt great out there. It has been a long season and a lot of travel this past month. Vancouver to Europe to Anchorage to Ft Kent over the past 3 weeks. Looking back I thi...
Yesterday was a rough. I just didn't have the next gear when it counted and never felt great out there. It has been a long season and a lot of travel this past month. Vancouver to Europe to Anchorage to Ft Kent over the past 3 weeks. Looking back I thi...
Yesterday was a rough. I just didn't have the next gear when it counted and never felt great out there. It has been a long season and a lot of travel this past month. Vancouver to Europe to Anchorage to Ft Kent over the past 3 weeks. Looking back I thi...
Yesterday was a rough. I just didn't have the next gear when it counted and never felt great out there. It has been a long season and a lot of travel this past month. Vancouver to Europe to Anchorage to Ft Kent over the past 3 weeks. Looking back I thi...
Midway through the U.S. 50 k Championship race on Wednesday, Ivan Babikov was a nation of one. The lone Canadian in a group of five Americans, he was ineligible for the U.S. title. But that didn’t stop him from skiing away with the win, and the $1,200 check that goes with it. Nearing the end of the last of five ten kilometer laps, Babikov put the hammer down, dropping CXC’s Tad Elliot and APU’s Lars...
Ivan Babikov (CAN) has traveled more than 10,000 kilometers since the conclusion of the 2010 Winter Olympics in late February. He only has to go 50 more on Wednesday, but they’ll feel every bit as long and painful as his circuitous journey from Vancouver to Fort Kent, Maine. Babikov is the clear favorite for tomorrow’s U.S. freestyle 30/50 k championships, but racing just 72 hours removed from the World Cup Finals in Sweden, he’ll be...