Mountain Biking – FasterSkier

Reaping Mountain Biking Benefits for Cross-Country Ski Training with Jessica Yeaton

Jessica YeatonMay 17, 2022

Cross-country skiers are notorious for training high volumes during the off season in order to be in peak racing form in the winter. There is a common mantra used by coaches to help motivate athletes to train hard even though the racing season is months away: “skiers are made in the summer”. From my experience working with different coaches, the large bulk of the summer’s volume is intended to be on roller skis or foot...

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FasterSkier’s 12 Days of FBD Christmas: Day 10

Jon "Fast Big Dog" SchaferDecember 23, 2017

DDay 2 | Day 4 | Day 6 | 7 | Day 9 *** Day 10: Tech Tech — what exactly does that mean? Technology? Phones that cost >$1k but still die after being exposed to cold for less than an hour? Michigan Tech? The dudes who stay up late drinking and prepping skis? All of these? None of these? Inquiring minds want to know. In the vernacular that I am establishing here is it really more of the...

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Wednesday Workout: Working the Downhills with Catharine Pendrel

Gerry FursethJune 14, 2017

“I’m Catharine Pendrel and I’m a cross-country mountain biker.” Fans of mountain biking need no introduction to the Olympic medallist, world champion and three-time World Cup overall winner from Canada. Pendrel, 36, is also a masters world champion in skiing after winning her age group in the

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Under 23 Questions with Philippe Boucher

FasterSkierFebruary 1, 2017

In an effort to showcase the North Americans competing at this week’s International Ski Federation (FIS) 2017 USANA Nordic Junior World Championships and U23 Cross Country World Championships at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah, we asked those qualifying athletes several questions about themselves — actually, we had them fill in the blanks. Here we have 19-year-old Philippe Boucher, of the Centre National d’Entraînement Pierre-Harvey (CNEPH), a.k.a. the Pierre-Harvey National Training Centre and Canadian Junior National...

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Sophie Caldwell Fractures Elbow in Bend, Crosses Fingers for No Surgery

Alex KochonMay 30, 2014

Sophie Caldwell broke her funny bone just over a week ago during a team mountain-bike session in Bend, Ore., and while it's no laughing matter, she's found humor in the situation. "I actually accidentally found myself in a spin class for senior citizens and it was one of the top ten sweatiest workouts of my life," she explains. "We did stage 14 of the Tour of Italy."

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Wednesday Workout: Sanity Day with Matt Briggs

BrainspiralMay 28, 2014

Matt Briggs, who podiumed in his first Pole Pedal Paddle two weekends ago, talks about race prep for a six-stage event. "This race was basically a full-time job for the three weeks leading up to the race," he says. To remind himself why he was doing it, he did a workout each week called "Sanity Day."

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The Bounty of Bend

SusanDMay 25, 2012

What do skiing, mountain biking, sunburns, snowstorms, rainbows and lots of roundabouts all have in common? They can all be found in Bend, Oregon in the month of May. For the first time in recent memory, the US Biathlon team sent a group of athletes ...

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Elliott Wins U-23 Title While Pulling Double Duty

Linnaea KershawJuly 27, 20107

Tad Elliott’s busy schedule didn’t stopped him from picking up an U-23 title this July at the U.S. Mountain Bike Nationals in Granby, Colorado. “It went really well. My goal was to win but it was still a surprise. Everyone else was so strong,” said the 22-year old. After winning the U-23 title, he also raced the short track race in the Elite Men category. In the middle of the race, he was in 6th...

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Harvey Gets Back On The Bike For One More Race

Linnaea KershawJune 30, 2010

Alex Harvey’s training schedule is already busy, but he’s still taking some time out to squeeze in the 2010 Canadian National Mountain Biking Championships in Canmore in mid-July. “It’s a good opportunity since I’m already here,” he said in a phone interview. “It’ll be a really hard workout for me.” Harvey was a very promising mountain bike racer in the junior category, but when the time came to move up to senior, he had to...

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The Road to Sochi? An Interview with Tad Elliot

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 5, 2010

After Tad Elliot skied his way to a second place finish in yesterday’s 15k freestyle, the cross country cognoscenti didn’t quite express the same degree of confusion as they did over Tyler Kornfield’s fourth place in the sprint. After some solid racing at last year’s West Yellowstone SuperTours and a trip to the U-23 championships, Elliot has a little more name recognition. But it’s safe to say that there probably weren’t many people here in...

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Downhill and Four-Cross Finals

Nathaniel HerzAugust 3, 2009

Finals for the downhill and four-cross at Bromont took place Saturday afternoon and evening. The downhill was won by Sabrina Jonnier of France on the women’s side, and South African Greg Minnaar for the men. In the four-cross, it was Dutchman Joost Wichman and Fionn Griffiths of Great Britain who took victories. Photos of the events are in the slide show, below.

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Four-Cross Qualifying

Nathaniel HerzAugust 1, 2009

Individual qualifying for the World Cup Four-Cross event in Bromont took place last night, and it was won by American Jill Kintner (unaffiliated) and France’s Romain Saladini (Team Sunn). Riders started individually and did a quick time trial down the course (the Quebecois announcer called it “contre-la-montre,” French for “against the watch”). Times ranged from 51 seconds for the top men to about a minute for the women. The course is very exciting and spectator-friendly–there...