FasterSkier

Category: XCFeeds

A collection of live feeds from cross-country ski blogs around the web.

  • This is a Thank you note from a J5 to a ski program.  Not much…

    img src=”http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l09tzryKyh1qzt3xbo1_500.jpg”/br/br/pThis is a Thank you note from a J5 to a ski program.  Not much changes as you get older, kid.  (via DW)/p

  • Vermont

    Having a great time out in Vermont. Everyday we visit a classroom or school to give a talk about skiing and Caitlin’s Olympic experience. The community is way into it. Thanks to Green Mountain Valley School (GMVS) for hosting us.

    Boiling Sap into Syrup

    Waitsfield 6th Grade Classroom

    Everyone wants an autograph

    Most of the kids here in town have Caitlin’s signature. Some on slips of paper, but many on there arms, forehead, jeans, hats, backpacks and school books. It is great to see the community so in to it.

  • SuperTour Finals

    The 2009/2010 SuperTour ended last week with a grueling pursuit racing format.  There were three races in a row: a 7/10K mass start classic, a classic sprint, and a 5/6K hill climb.  Each of the first two races had time bonuses at various places.  Then, start positions for the last day were based off of […]

  • SuperTour Finals

    The 2009/2010 SuperTour ended last week with a grueling pursuit racing format.  There were three races in a row: a 7/10K mass start classic, a classic sprint, and a 5/6K hill climb.  Each of the first two races had time bonuses at various places.  Then, start positions for the last day were based off of […]

  • SuperTour Finals

    The 2009/2010 SuperTour ended last week with a grueling pursuit racing format.  There were three races in a row: a 7/10K mass start classic, a classic sprint, and a 5/6K hill climb.  Each of the first two races had time bonuses at various places.  Then, start positions for the last day were based off of […]

  • SuperTour Finals

    The 2009/2010 SuperTour ended last week with a grueling pursuit racing format.  There were three races in a row: a 7/10K mass start classic, a classic sprint, and a 5/6K hill climb.  Each of the first two races had time bonuses at various places.  Then, start positions for the last day were based off of […]

  • Update from Switzerland

    It’s been a little bit since we’ve had an update to the site, but it’s been with good reason.  This spring has been a little different than how it normally goes. Instead of Lindsey heading off to ski one more series of ski races, we headed to Switzerland for a couple weeks of travel and what has turned out to be some incredibly amazing training.

    The first week of travel in Switzerland was an adventure with Katadyn, a company that Dan represents for sales in the Mid-west and included some fantastic ALPINE skiing in Grindlewald. Despite the weather being incredibly warm (we’re not complaining) and the snow being a little soft, it was still skiing in Switzerland and there isn’t much that beats it. Leave it to Lindsey to overachieve by making a ski trip to the Alps here first time on downhill equipment in 3 years.

    The second week has been amazing, and we catch our flight back to the U.S. (back to reality) in the morning. From Grindlewald we hopped a quick train down to Interlaken and spent three nights enjoying our favorite city on the trip. The trail running in this town is absolutely over the top. We stumbled onto a network of trails the first morning out called the Wander Weg. The Wander Weg is a network of trails that covers most of Switzerland and Austria. The trails connect all of the small towns in the mountains and have some incredible terrain…i.e. CLIMBING!!! We ran different segments every day running a little over 2 hours each day. While that may not seem like a relaxing vacation to most folks, it was exactly what we wanted and if your on this website, you’d most likely enjoy it just as much.  The rest of the trip has gone by pretty fast, we are running hard everyday, because thats what we do…and hopping trains all over the country.

    Once we get home then our schedule picks up pretty quickly.  Dan’s first trail marathon of the year, and first trail race back since knee surgery is 2 weeks from tomorrow.  Lindsey’s headed back to work at the Marquette Baking Company (and anxious to try some things picked up in Switzerland) and will be training like crazy for her marathon debut at Grandmas in June.

    ENJOY THE PHOTOS!

    The Swiss know how to carbo-load!

    Day 1 of skiing in Grindlewald.

    Extreme tobogganing! This would never fly in the U.S. Took an hour 15 to get down

    the mountain and hitting over 25 miles an hour at some points. No waivers signed, no helmets.

    Day 2 of skiing in Grindlewald.

    Par for the course on the Wander Weg. Trails either went up or down and either way the view was intense.

    Typical intersection on the Wander Weg. Complete with average hiking times.

    Refueling after back to back O.D. runs. Coffee Creme and apple-filled goodness.

    Climbing in Chur, trail running outside Switzerland’s oldest city.

    The best way we found to refuel for the next day of playing in Switzerland.

  • Keep the tension out of those legs, peeps.  It’s CS…

    img src=”http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0882dYO2P1qzt3xbo1_500.jpg”/br/br/pKeep the tension out of those legs, peeps.  It’s CS surgery season!   Yay!/p

  • Alaskans Go Batshit. (Click for link)

  • Last Ski of the Year (probably)

    On my way to Maine yesterday I stopped at Great Glen Trails for what will most likely be my last ski of the year. It was raining the entire way there, with not a patch of snow in sight, so I wasn’t holding my breath for amazing skiing. However the scenery started to change after turning off Rte 2 and heading up 16. Suddenly there was snow in the woods, which boded well for the trails. It was still drizzling and the trails hadn’t been groomed for a couple days (Great Glen closed on Sunday) but the skiing was surprisingly good! Sorry for the lack of photos, I didn’t want to take out my camera in the soggy conditions. It was a fun ski and I was happy to end my on-snow season with something other than that brutal hill climb in Fort Kent.

    Speaking of Fort Kent, our adventure in the County deserves a mention. We were there for 10 days and I did 5 races, including a mass-start US Nationals biathlon race, which was quite an experience. My goal going in was to hit at least one target at each stage and I managed to hit two at each, so I was very pleased. Actually, that’s an understatement. I had a great time in the race and was totally psyched! Probably my favorite part of the race was in the middle of my second stage of prone shooting hearing Ida happily exclaim from a balcony overlooking the range, “Look! She hit two!!” I hope that as I do more biathlon I never lose that feeling of surprise and satisfaction at hitting a target. After Sunday we had a couple days off before heading into the cross-country races. Between Wednesday and the next Sunday we had a 30 km skate, 7.5 km mass-start classic, classic sprint, and 5 km skate hill climb. I was happily surprised with how well I recovered after the 30 km and I was particularly pleased with the distance classic race. It was a super fast, fun course and with such a stacked field there were plenty of people to try to keep up with. Pepa worked super hard all week to give us awesome skis (thank you Pepa!) and Ida kicked butt, getting 2nd in both the mass-start and sprint classic races.

    On the Thursday in between races Hannah, Chelsea, Ida, and I headed over to Madawaska to volunteer at a Fast and Female event. It was a great day and I think we were all excited to take part. Fast and Female is a really cool organization and it’s always fun to be surrounded by such enthusiasm and energy. We played games on skis and ate lunch with local elementary and middle school-aged girls and I got a kick out of how psyched they were to have a no-boys-allowed day. There were multiple exclamations of “It is SO cool that we don’t have to see any boys ALL day!” Check out the NENSA report here.

    Finally…if you haven’t seen a stork yet, today is April 1st, so don’t forget to hang your Bulgarian Independence Day bracelet on a tree.

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  • Great Season

    It has been a busy March. 10 races in 18 day including 2 50km and a trans-atlantic flight. I am thankful that I was able to stay relatively healthy and felt good through all the races.

    One of the reasons I race all the races at Super Tour finals was to defend my Super Tour Distance Lead. The title includes a cash prize which translates to a new car for me.

    Thanks Coach Fish for a great season… my best ever… so far

    Understandably, fatigue is starting to set in. I am looking forward to a little ‘vacation’ and change of pace in Vermont and New York City.

  • Still skiing!

    I haven’t had enough of the ski season yet.  Haven’t been able to get any posts up for the past couple days, ’cause I’ve been on the road. . .to Australia.  The ski season starts here soon and I want to be sure to get first tracks!

  • (Insert Hilarious Satirical April Fools Article Here)

    pBlah blah.  Hardy har har.  Sooooo funny. /p

  • Freak Late Season Storm Ensures Continued Good Skiing

    a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H2SCM3lmKm8/S7TFFZ8q42I/AAAAAAAACsk/yFKPCIi9lsA/s1600/IMG_3014.JPG”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H2SCM3lmKm8/S7TFFZ8q42I/AAAAAAAACsk/yFKPCIi9lsA/s400/IMG_3014.JPG” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455201745307886434″ //aWe got another big dump last night so it looks as if we’ll be skiing until May this year!br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_H2SCM3lmKm8/S7TEgCiczLI/AAAAAAAACsc/dbPHAYP-098/s1600/IMG_3170.JPG”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_H2SCM3lmKm8/S7TEgCiczLI/AAAAAAAACsc/dbPHAYP-098/s400/IMG_3170.JPG” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455201103368735922″ //abr /The gang is all smiles after our morning ski.div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4680416899705879324-7157586856122462581?l=smsxc.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div

  • Home Again!

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  • “I went 5 straight nights at “Richardo’s Italian Bistro AND Fish Shack” – pretty…”

    “I went 5 straight nights at “Richardo’s Italian Bistro AND Fish Shack” – pretty good food despite the name”br/br/ – emRandom Anonymous Coach Musings: County Leftovers Edition/em

  • Klister Removal: Use High Heat

    pit’s the time of year when skiers flock for warm locales, sandy beaches, and a respite from the strain of racing training.  (As has been said before “Beach rhymes with Spring.”)  Send along loosely ski-specific photos (as in they have a skier in them) of the season end to johnnyklister@gmail.com. The best submission receives various useless JohnnyKlister.com detritus (patches, stickers, compromising photos of the Homegrown team.)/p

  • Photo

    img src=”http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l05dl4JZ7E1qzt3xbo1_500.jpg”/br/br/

  • March 2010 Nordic Ultratune Newsletter

    A lot more than I can post here. It’s a twelve page newsletter with lots of good information.

  • Is it Spring Yet

    At Mt Bachelor at the moment, it is 22F, snowing and there are 112 inches of snow on the ground. The skiing is going to be good for another month. But the days are lighter and the daffodils are up. The bike business is picking up and we had our first kayak slalom race in Bend last weekend. Team WebSkis was well represented at this rite of spring. Aaron Tarnow completed his first ever whitewater race. Kerie Raymond, again off the couch, jumped in to have a couple good runs. I was both race organizer and competitor. That is not the way to have the best performance. But my main masters level rival and I teamed up in the K2 (two paddler kayak)and had a great run beating the local favorites.br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://www.webskis.com/uploaded_images/keri@gate8-riverhouse-2010-785583.JPG”img style=”display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://www.webskis.com/uploaded_images/keri@gate8-riverhouse-2010-785501.JPG” alt=”” border=”0″ //a Kerie Raymond exiting gate 8.br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://www.webskis.com/uploaded_images/k2-riverhouse-2010-768426.JPG”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://www.webskis.com/uploaded_images/k2-riverhouse-2010-768380.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”” //a Dave Johnson and me at the end of our winning run.br /br /There is one more xc ski race, the Great Nordeen at Mt Bachelor coming up this weekend. There is also a big group ride supported by WebCyclery. Too much to do. Think I will try some new Madshus skis on Thursday, ride on Sunday and more paddling next week. Hope my body holds up.div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6589659500745667109-8288111594214252379?l=www.webskis.com%2Fwebskisblog.html’ alt=” //div