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Inside the Masters Skier’s Training Equation: Recovery, Strength, and the End of Hero Workouts

This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers. If you value coverage like this, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription. A Different Equation Masters’ athletes are often told to “train smarter, not harder,” or the current version: “Go easy on the endurance sessions so you can go hard on the intense sessions.” Those phrases get repeated so often they’ve lost context and meaning. But there is a real physiological reason...

When to Increase Training Load… and When to Wait

This article was made possible through the generous support of our voluntary subscribers. If you value coverage like this, please support FasterSkier with a voluntary subscription. As this ski season wraps up, many of us coaches are doing similar work. Using spreadsheets or a popular training platform, we map out training for the year. We plan the yearly hours, monthly hours, and weekly hours, along with defining the training intensity distribution. We also plan how long...

Sovereign 2 SilverStar Ski Marathon — Registration Closes Sunday

LAST CALL for an Incredible Nordic Weekend at Sovereign 2 SilverStar Ski Marathon, Vernon, BC April 4-5, 2026 | Stussi Night Sprints April 2   Registration Closes 6pm (local) Sunday, March 29th You don’t want to miss out on the 5th annual S2S! Sovereign Lake Nordic Club and Silver Star Mountain Resort — the two world-class venues co-hosting the event — have had new snow and colder temps over the past week, and the groomers...

Royal Gorge XC Resort to Offer Expanded Programming for Winter 2026-2027

Thanks to the fantastic success of the redesigned youth programs at the resort this past winter, Royal Gorge XC will offer expanded teams for the 2026-2027 season. New team offerings for the coming season will include middle school age racing, junior racing, gap year programming, pro level racing and masters training groups. Youth programming will remain the same as offered this past season, with groups comprised of young skiers from Kindergarten through 8th grade with...

Personal Essay: An Uphill Battle by Tim Donahue

If you look at the lines that graph long-term athletic performance – VO2 max, anaerobic threshold, maximum heart rate, 10k running speed – it can be pretty demoralizing. Even before age 30, there’s a slow and steady cant downward, and then by the mid-40s, a descent into a valley that plunges toward the abyss’s void of emptiness.    Some of us choose to oppose these trendlines, wrestling with them like tentacles in a roiling sea of...