We finished our week-long training camp in Bend with a great 3 hour OD ski on Friday morning, then a few hours of (successful) rock climbing at Smith. A large Dairy Queen Blizzard, dinner and sleep later, we were on the road from Bend at 7:30am on Satu...
Today is our last day of our week long on snow camp in Bend Oregon. We got in a lot of solid training, skiing every morning and doing all sorts of different activities in the afternoon. I'm feeling pretty worn out but tomorrow will be a day off as we a...
Now that we're several weeks into spring I thought it necessary to offer an update on the MOD Squad. First and foremost, the roster has been changed: this year's line-up features veterans Erik Bjornsen and Sam Naney and newcomer (though veteran in all ...
div style="text-align: center;"I apologize to everyone for how long it has taken to get to this post. The past couple of weeks have seemed to go way too fast with all the decisions and new things that have been going on.br //divdivbr //divdivMy season ...
Though I'm sure most of you have been reading all the OTHER skier blogs about springtime-funtime, I still figure I'll pitch in my two cents on this our one month of leisure. I ended my season a bit earlier than expected; following a dismal slew of resu...
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "br /This past Monday Sadie, Scott and I got home from Super Tour Finals in Fort Kent, Maine. The races were held in a Tour-style competition. A couple things usually happe...
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This past weekend we raced only a single sprint, in Monguelfo, ITA. The format was quite interesting; the morning qualifier was held up the Gsieser Tal (valley) about 20km from Monguelfo on an off-camber farmer's field, while the heats were to be held ...
!--StartFragment-- p class="MsoNormal"Monguelfo City Sprint/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="" /spanOur third OPA cup race was in Monguelfo, Italy last Friday. It was one of the more exciting sprints I have done. The qualifier was held in ...
div style="text-align: left;"We just returned from probably the most exciting race I have ever skied. Friday was the City Sprint in the middle of a little town named Monguelfo, in Italy. At ten in the morning we raced our qualifier about an hour's driv...
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We arrived in Campra yesterday afternoon. Like all the other places we have been in Switzerland, It is beautiful. Yesterday I was able to get in a hour and a half distance ski and today two hours. I'm feeling good now and recovered from my nasty sickne...
Just a quick posting here as Erik and I are sitting in the van outside a closed bar advertising free internet. Not sure how long we'll stay under the radar...divbr //divdivTimes have been a bit crazy since the MOD Squad reconnected in the Zurich airpor...
Here's what the next five weeks will look like:br /br /2/1 - MOD Squad reunites in Geneva, SUI; travel to Klausen, SUI and our base of operationsbr /2/2 - 2/4 - Train in Klausenbr /2/4 - Travel to Campra, SUIbr /2/6 - 2/7 - Race Campra OPA Cupbr /2/8 -...
Here's the last post before the MOD crew reunites on the Continent. While the younger elements of the squad have been competing over in Hinterzarten the past two weeks, I've been capitalizing on two weeks of training. And for the first time since mid-O...