One of my long time biathlon teammates, Laura Spector, recently decided to not continue competing this year. Laura has always been an awesome training buddy who can be counted on for the longest biking or hiking adventures and I’ve missed having her around this summer. She was also instrumental in starting the forward momentum of [...]
Today was our second day in the Torsby Ski Tunnel in Sweden and I’m not sick of it yet! The tunnel is a 1.3km loop which you ski in one direction, then turn and ski it in the other direction, and the entire thing probably takes about 10 minutes. I expected it to be quite [...]
I’m sitting in the Burlington terminal waiting to start my trans-Atlantic trip to Sweden but currently looking out over the Green Mountains and reflecting on the summer in Vermont. This has been my longest block of training in Craftsbury in quite some time and it was awesome! While I love being on the road there [...]
Last week was the first of our two Bill Koch League summer day camps and we had 24 kids from all over northern Vermont who joined us for a busy week of ski training and other outdoor fun. It was a great group of kids who were certainly not lacking in enthusiasm or energy! [...]
We have less than a month until the London Summer Olympics begin and anticipation is building across the globe. Last Wednesday, June 27th, we celebrated Olympic Day right here in Craftsbury, Vermont at Hosmer Point summer camp. About 60 kids aged 9-14...
This week forty of New England’s top junior skiers came to Craftsbury for a training camp so we’ve had lots of company on the trails and roads during our training sessions. The first few days were cold and wet so we were all very excited ...
There is a lot to love about being on a mountain top. Refreshing breezes, a flow of puffy white clouds that tow splotchy shadows across ridge lines, and a lush carpet of contrasting peaks and valleys stretching across the land. I can see every shad...
It seems to me that spring is really comprised of at least 3 very short sub-seasons. In a period of about 3 weeks Craftsbury went from cold and gray and leafless, through that brief neon green leaf-springing, and into a sudden early summer. It was ...
I started the first training camp of the year with serious race anxiety. My stomach was in knots, I was overly jittery from consuming too much coffee, and I was just trying to stay relaxed. It felt like the World Championships and my life was on th...
We have a huge North American training group together this week in Bend. It’s a lot of fun to see so many familiar faces in the summer time and also to train with athletes who we often only see at races. Yesterday everyone did a classic spe...
Although the new training year is well underway, I’d like to take little time to look back on the month of April. For a professional ski racer, it is our vacation month, the one time of year when we can stop thinking about training or racing for more than a couple days at a [...]
Biathlon World Championships Sprint 2012 A beautiful day in Bavaria!
The past couple weeks have been a whirlwind of racing and travelling. From Russia we flew to Germany, drove to Austria for a few days of training, drove to Czech Republic for a weekend of races, drove to Poland for three more days of racing and then drove back across Czech Republic, Austria, and Germany [...]
So…once again I’m finding time to write about Craftsbury only when I’m not in Craftsbury…right now I’m in the Calgary Airport, en route to Canmore for some more IBU cup racing! But luckily for all of you blog-readers, I spent perhaps too much time when I was home for a week documenting the life of Mo, [...]
Immediately after the sprint in Moscow we had to race back to the hotel, shower, pack, eat dinner and then we climbed on a bus with the Norwegian team to drove to Rybinsk, Russia. We didn’t leave until after 8pm and I had heard rumors that it was going to be an eight hour drive [...]
I’m finally starting to feel comfortable on the World Cup. Each weekend of course still brings new venues, twists, adventures, curve balls, mistakes, stories, and all the other surprises that makes this lifestyle fun and exciting, but I have found a sense of place on the road and developed a vague idea of what might [...]
For the last week, I’ve been in Slovakia for the U-26 european championships. I had no idea what to expect of Slovakia, but it turned out to be a pretty cool place. I also didn’t really know what to expect of the racing, and I was feeling pretty apprehensive about the shooting, but that also [...]
For the last two weeks or so, I’ve been holding down the fort here in Craftsbury as my teammates travel and race all over God’s white acre. In the short span between January 19th and February 2nd, the CGRP has been represented at races in Italy, Germany, Estonia, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Norway, and the western United States…AND at the Craftsbury Marathon, of course. While [...]
I was a little nervous for the Craftsbury Marathon, because I had never done a classic race longer than 30km. The four-loop course we did for this year’s marathon totaled around 44km, so I wasn’t sure how I would fare in the final third of the race. My two concerns were food and kick wax [...]
Life is good and I’m feeling very lucky! I just finished up an awesome training camp in Ramsau, Austria. A week off from the World Cup was an opportunity to increase the volume and put in a short block of training a midst a busy period of racing. I couldn’t have asked for a better location either [...]