Approximately 40 athletes attended the USST Altitude Camp in Park City, Utah which concluded Oct. 19. The camp is a final opportunity of the best skiers in the country to fine tune their skiing before the winter season starts in November.
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Nordic Skiing Summer Training Camp, Dublin, New Hampshire, 11-13 August 2014
Dublin SchoolJuly 1, 2014
Targeted at high school aged skiers, to give them the opportunity to train and excel as a group, while learning the latest techniques, drills and philosophies. Activities: Roller skiing Norwegian hill bounding with poles Ski specific proprioception drills Running Optional road and mt. biking Lake swimming at the boat house Mt. Monadnock hike Evening lecture series : A Yearly Training Plan ; Diet and Nutrition This 3 day, 2 night camp will be hosted on the...
The U.S. Ski Team's summer training camp in Alaska has become increasingly international over the past few years, and in 2013 the list of invitees will grow by one more. Norwegian National Team member Astrid Jacobsen is scheduled to be in Alaska for three weeks in July to train with the American women.
The U.S. Ski Team's annual May training camp began in earnest this week in Bend, Ore. A few inches of fresh snow greeted skiers at Mt. Bachelor on Wednesday morning, just in time for the group's first interval session: a set of 6 x 4-6 minute L3 freestyle intervals with intermediate sprints.
As the world turned its attention to London this weekend for the opening days of the Summer Olympics, another set of elite American athletes were quietly logging training hours in Ramsau, Austria, in preparation for the coming winter season and, ultimately, the 2014 Winter Games. The U.S. Ski Team men began a 12-day European camp on Dachstein glacier on Saturday, where they will stay for a week before heading to Oberhof, Germany, to train in...
U.S., Canadian National Teams Mix It Up with Club Skiers in Relays (Photo Gallery)
Chelsea LittleMay 23, 2012
BEND, Ore. – It may have been spring at Mount Bachelor this weekend, but by the time Wednesday rolled around, it was more like winter. Snow had fallen overnight and stuck to the mountain’s flanks, and flurries continued to drift from the sky as the U.S. and Canadian national ski teams competed in relay races with several club teams. Canadian Olympian and current Alberta World Cup Academy coach George Grey skied the course before the...
U.S. Biathletes: Home on the Range at Soldier Hollow Camp (with Photo Gallery)
Chelsea LittleOctober 18, 2011
The U.S. biathlon community may be small, but one benefit of its size is that almost everyone can gather each year in October for a training camp at Soldier Hollow. This year, the senior national team is joined in Utah by the junior national team as well as biathletes from the Maine Winter Sports Center, Durango and as far as Canada. Inviting everyone brings training quality up, said national team women’s coach Jonne Kahkonen, who...
USST Training Camp Video and Photos
Alex KochonSeptember 8, 2011
Several members of the U.S. Ski Team and National Training Group came out for Day 2 of the Lake Placid USST dryland training camp on Thursday, competing in a classic rollerski sprint. Over the two-hour time trial, six women and nine men raced four times — the women on a 1.3-k loop and the men over 1.5 k. Everyone advanced to the finals, and the idea was to go hard. Here is a recap...
U.S. Biathletes Shine in European Training Camp; Women’s Team Attends for the First Time
Chelsea LittleAugust 31, 2011
Last year, the U.S. Biathlon Association (USBA) took eight men to Europe for a summer training camp, leaving the women’s team to train by themselves in Lake Placid. Since then, a dedicated women’s coach (Jonne Kahkonen) has been hired, so the women are in some ways more than ever their own team. But this summer three of them were invited to the camp in Germany and are training alongside the men. “For us, it’s definitely...
Biathletes Make Most of Altitude at Soldier Hollow
Chelsea LittleOctober 18, 2010
With only seven weeks until the first race of the World Cup season, biathletes around the world are making their final preparations and fine-tuning their training. For the Americans, this meant a two-week training camp in Soldier Hollow, Utah, which finished Friday. Coaches had two main goals for the camp: to take advantage of training at altitude, and to solidify shooting skills in “combination” workouts with rollerskiing. Coach Patrick Coffey said that the staff worked...
Motivating to Get Tips From the Mentors
Inge ScheveAugust 23, 2010
A group of handpicked Norwegian junior skiers in the Norwegian Ski Association’s talent development group are treated to their own mentors among the World Cup racers, as well as team camps that blend athletes from all the ski disciplines. The result is major motivational boosts.