In last year’s lone distance race at U.S. Nationals, a 5k freestyle, Caitlin Compton edged Kikkan Randall by the thin margin of 3.5 seconds. Today, Compton again beat Randall over the same technique and distance. But unfortunately for Compton, today’s event was double that distance. And by the end of it, Randall was able to make up the lost ground, taking her second event in a row here in Anchorage by ten seconds. “When I...
divI have been at my parent's home in East Montpelier since I traveled back from Davos, Switzerland two weeks ago. I have yet to miss a Christmas here with my family, and this year my brother, Andy, who lives in Seattle, was able to come home for a fe...
divThe internet is very in and out here, but Davos is one heck of a place. I think for many of us, it is one of the favorite spots on the tour, and when you come from dark scandinavia, the sun feels even better. Races this weekend are a 10/15K skat...
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Rossignol Nordic X-ium Skate Package: Stability, Glide, Efficiency and Comfort Proven by World Cup Victories Rossignol is excited to introduce the new X-ium Package, including the X-ium Skating WCS NIS ski, X-ium WC Skate boot, R4 Skate NIS bindings, and the Oneway DS 10 Titanium pole. The stability, glide, efficiency and comfort of the X-ium package was proven by our athletes results last year in World Cups and World Championships. Pietro Piller Cottrer won the...
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Video by the US Ski Team’s Torin Koos – Skating with Liz Stephen. Be sure to read the commentary below the video by US Ski Team Coach Matt Whitcomb. Commentary with Matt Whitcomb The New Zealand on-snow footage with Liz comes from a threshold session. Liz does a fine job keeping a controlled intensity effort in actually very steep terrain. Notice how Liz is light on her feet and moves side to side very efficiently...
No pictures, as the internet here is not good enough to upload any. The camp here is going very well and is our first intensity camp of the year. So far we have done L3 classic intervals around the sprint course with a max double pole effort coming...
No pictures, as the internet here is not good enough to upload any. The camp here is going very well and is our first intensity camp of the year. So far we have done L3 classic intervals around the sprint course with a max double pole effort coming...
div style="text-align: center;"I am going back in time a bit with this post, but certain experiences need to be shared sometimes. On my way to Vermont from New Zealand a group of very close friends picked me up at the SLC airport and we began to driv...
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divI am into my last 4 days at the Snowfarm, and it has gone by way too fast. We had some storms last week and are expecting more tonight through Thursday, but the snow has been amazing. The team arrived a week ago and so training has taken a step ...
div style="text-align: center;"Over the last 2 months, some of you may have been worried that I fully dropped off the edge of a cliff never to be seen of heard from again. Fortunately, that is not true, although short of that kind of story, an excuse...