From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

Pre Valentines Telemark Intervals

Our Junior National Crew did some hard intervals up the “old race” hill at Trapps. Telemark Hill provides about three minutes of continuous climb — making pacing and technique paramount. We did two loops of about 8 minutes with the emphasis on increasing pace on the second effort. All of the kids (except one and coach!) did just that.br /br /Here is some video:br /br /object width=”320″ height=”266″ class=”BLOG_video_class” id=”BLOG_video-ef16fd4c62986b43″ classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/get_player”param name=”bgcolor” value=”#FFFFFF”param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true”param name=”flashvars” value=”flvurl=http%3A%2F%2Fv22.nonxt3.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3Def16fd4c62986b43%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1278989543%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3DD96BFDFF7889B6EB49063C0932CEBEE807EAA2B.7147963CE03836F8B333F36BE0AE79AB5774B40A%26key%3Dck1amp;iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Def16fd4c62986b43%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DPA8SBBF8Wf-15auFaPhKGBKkYuAamp;autoplay=0amp;ps=blogger”embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/get_player”width=”320″ height=”266″ bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”flashvars=”flvurl=http%3A%2F%2Fv22.nonxt3.googlevideo.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3Def16fd4c62986b43%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1278989543%26sparams%3Did%252Citag%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Cexpire%26signature%3DD96BFDFF7889B6EB49063C0932CEBEE807EAA2B.7147963CE03836F8B333F36BE0AE79AB5774B40A%26key%3Dck1iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Def16fd4c62986b43%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DPA8SBBF8Wf-15auFaPhKGBKkYuAautoplay=0ps=blogger”allowFullScreen=”true” //objectdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1847564486460994594-6271098915813706922?l=gmvsxc.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div