I arrived in Utah Saturday night for our annual fall training camp. We will be out here for the next three weeks taking advantage of the great venue and warm fall weather. Actually, it feels a lot more like summer out here now with temps reaching 90 today. This is definitely a big contrast to [...]
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I am really excited to announce that I will be switching to ONEWAY poles this season. After testing a lot of different product, I decided that ONEWAY was the right fit for me. Besides making great poles, I was really impressed with the attitude of the employees at ONEWAY. These guys are seriously motivated to [...]
I am back in Lake Placid now after our five-week training camp in Europe. The camp went really well but it feels great to back home in my own bed for a few weeks. I spent the last week of camp in Oberhof, Germany training in the new “ski hall”. The ski hall consists of [...]
I’m finally back online here in Austria. It seems the internet can still be somewhat of a luxury over here… Besides being removed from what’s going on in the world, everything has been going well here and I am having a good time at camp. For the first ten days of camp we were in [...]
Here are some pics from the past two days here in Italy. As you can see, things are not so bad here… This region of Italy really has everything that I could ask for with great climbing, world-class venues, sunny weather and the best food!
I’m taking off this morning for our five-week Europe camp in Italy, Austria and Germany. Although it has been great to be home for the past few months, I am excited to hit the road again and train in some new places. The past few weeks of training went well with no major setbacks. I [...]
I’m only a few training days away from finishing one of the toughest training blocks of the year. When I finish the period on Saturday, I will have trained more in three weeks than I ever have before. These volume-training blocks are especially hard because they leave me nearly no free time. When I do [...]
Tim Burke became the first-ever American biathlete to pull on the yellow bib of the overall World Cup leader last winter, but first place still eludes him–he has never won a race outright. This year, he intends to change that. “I would love to win a World Cup, to know that on that day, I was the best biathlete in the world,” Burke said. Burke didn’t get any victories last year, but he came tantalizingly...
Things are finally settling down for me a bit now after our first training camp of the season concluded here in Lake Placid last week. The past three weeks were filled with tons of training, meetings and planning for next season. It was great to have everyone here and to see how motivated the entire [...]
After enjoying a relaxing April, I am now back to my normal training routine. Unlike the previous few Aprils, this year I decided not to travel anywhere and instead I stayed right here in Lake Placid. I spent more than six months on the road last year so I was really content to just relax [...]
For the U.S. Biathlon Association (USBA), the winter of 2010 was one of ups and downs. High points included Tim Burke’s podium performances in the early season, which culminated with his donning of the yellow bib of World Cup overall leader after a race in Slovenia. The Olympics were less successful, with Jeremy Teela’s ninth-place leading the way—but the team’s dissatisfaction with a single top-ten is a testament to how far the program has come...
Performance of the Year This year we expanded the Performance of the Year Award to include three different categories – cross-country, biathlon, and nordic combined. XC Performance of the Year (men): This season featured a number of outstanding performances, and for the first time we breaking out the award into three categories – cross-country, nordic combined, and biathlon. The challenge, like in many of the other awards, is how to weigh Olympic results. The Olympics...
Biathlete of the Year In any normal year, this award would be as straightforward as they come. On the men’s side, Tim Burke (USA) is head and shoulders above the North American field. And despite inconsistent performances, Zina Kocher is the only woman who can threaten to crack the top-20. But this was an Olympic year, and Olympic results count more than World Cup or World Championship races – at least to the public. Neither...
I am flying home now after finishing my last world cup of the season in Khanty-Mansysk, Russia. Another season has flown by and I am now ready for some much needed rest and recovery. I have only been home for six days since November so I am really looking forward to unpacking my bags and [...]
Tim Burke wrapped up a banner season on the World Cup by finishing 16th in Saturday’s 15 k mass start event in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. He finished 1:14 behind the winner, Austria’s Dominik Landertinger. Arnd Peiffer (GER) and 40-year-old Halvard Hanevold (NOR) were second and third. Like in yesterday’s sprint, Burke was again one of the strongest on the course, finishing with the fifth-fastest ski time. But he couldn’t overcome four misses. “My skiing shape was...
KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia – In his second to last race of the season, Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, N.Y.) came back strong with an 11th place in the 10k Sprint competition in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. With one of the fastest times on skis today, Burke finished his race in 25:07.8 minutes, 43.5 seconds behind today’s winner Ivan Tcherezov (RUS) who cleaned both shooting stages. Following penalties in both prone and standing, Burke had to ski an extra 300m. “His...
KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia – The 2009/2010 IBU Biathlon World Cup comes to a close this weekend in the West Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk. Tim Burke (Lake Placid, NY) will be the sole athlete representing the U.S. in the World Cup final. Burke looks forward to ending his personal-best season on high note. “It’s the last races of the season so I am ready to go. The track here suits me and the training felt really great,”...
There’s one way to guarantee yourself a good result in a biathlon race: hit all the targets. In the men’s 15 k mass start World Cup in Oslo, Russia’s Ivan Tcherezov was the only one of 30 starters to do so, and he won, by 26 seconds, over Austria’s Christoph Sumann and Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen. From the first loop and first shooting stage, Tcherezov was in the hunt, ensconced in a big group and...
I arrived in Norway yesterday after a week of racing in Finland. I had a decent sprint race in Finland but I am definitely hoping for more this week in Norway. I am finally feeling healthy again and I expect that I will start to feel better with every race. After spending nearly a week [...]