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Category: XCFeeds
A collection of live feeds from cross-country ski blogs around the web.
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Back in beautiful Ramsau, Austria for another fall training…
img src=”http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqp1k0Xwza1qzvvqho1_500.jpg”/br/br/pBack in beautiful Ramsau, Austria for another fall training camp…unfortunately this photo is from last year!/p
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This is Alex and I skiing today. The conditions are not a great…
img src=”http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqp1gvlq4U1qzvvqho1_500.jpg”/br/br/pThis is Alex and I skiing today. The conditions are not a great as last year- but the skiing is still pretty good despite the lack of snow./p
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Rest Weekend?
After a very busy start to school, we scheduled a couple of easy days for the group last weekend. The goal was to have fun, get healthy (we had a cold run through the team last week) and catch up on anything that needed attention.br /So… what happens on a “rest weekend”? Matt went to Utah for the X-Terra National Championships. Sverre went to Minneapolis to attend and present at the National XC Coaches Conference. 3 seniors visited colleges. The Cobbs hosted their anuual “cobb bowl” football game and cookout. Lots of the team went to the Peru Fair and a bunch helped out there. Everyone trained a little on their own AND got plenty of sleep so they would be ready to plunge into our next two weeks of hard training. A good time was had by all.br /Tomorrow we have a 6:30 classic ski and a running race in Brattleboro. We’ll get back at it and be ready to go!div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4680416899705879324-4038775040664669744?l=smsxc.blogspot.com’//div
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Thoughts on 2009 North American Birkebeiner
First of all an awesome event. At the Birke one can catch up with many old ski friends. It is an amazing atmosphere with all types and kinds of skiers well represented. The most rewarding parts last year were of course catching up with old friends enjoying the hospitality of my hosts the Bauer’s. John also makes it a near impossibility to win the 40-45 age group. Actually cannot wait until he is again out of my age group. divThis past year I was able t get there a couple of days in advance and help out with a National Guard Booth where we had an information on the Biathlon Program at the National Guard and help out at the TOKO tech team by answering questions about wax and waxing to many appreciative people./divdivbr //divdivWhy am I going on about the Birke now anyway??/divdivbr //divdivWell I watched under the power lines in the media player at
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“Everyone here understands that the US is capable of producing ski champions both near and long term,…”
“Everyone here understands that the US is capable of producing ski champions both near and long term, which I’ve never felt before. There is a sense of underlying confidence that with some work we can do it. There is not anything magical that we have to do, we just have to do the work and we will continue to build momentum and results. I’m not sure if we’ve managed to scare away all of the people who use to come to these things and whine and dwell on why we can’t do it, or if it is just that more people understand that it is possible and likely if we can continue to develop our system. But there is a tangible change, and a good one.”br/br/ – emRandom Anonymous Coach Musings: MPLS Conference Edition./em
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Knee / Training Update
It’s been a while since I have taken the helm and posted an update. Truth is, between work and the fact that I can train again, I’m whooped at the end of the day and hold the couch to the floor for an hour or so before heading off to bed.
The middle of August I was given the o.k. to start running, just a little bit at a time, i.e. 20 min. As I was building my running back up, I started to Mtn. Bike again for the first time since 2003. Mtn. Biking had been one of the extra curricular activities that went to the wayside as my running started to progress to the next level.
After a few weeks, I was running a little longer and riding a lot more. On the 12th of September, I had my longest day in the saddle EVER. The day consisted of 9.5 hours on the Mtn. Bike hitting pretty much every high point in the Keweenaw. The totals for the day included about 80 miles of trail and a cumulative elevation gain of right around 20k feet. The long day on the bike just confirmed what I was starting to feel. My knee is back to strength and ready for pretty much anything I was willing to throw at it.
Fast forward to today.
Today, Lindsey and I set out for my first over distance run on my newly repaired meniscus. I started the day with a couple of known bailout points that I could use if things didn’t feel right. I didn’t need them. Everything held together, didn’t even think about it. Today was my longest run in 4 months and after 3 hours of climbing and descending single track I’m finally confident that everything is where it needs to be and I can now look at things as actual training versus rehab.
There really is a huge difference between training and rehab, both mentally and physically. The biggest being the ability to just let it rip, no limits, all out, with out fear that your going to set yourself back and have to work even harder to get back to where you started. It’s so much more fun to train, and while rehab is extremely important, wow, does it ever suck.
While I am feeling really good and running well, I have decided to bag the rest of the year for running races and make sure that I’m super fit / strong come Spring 2010. In the meantime, that doesn’t mean being a slacker. As a classic overachiever, I have thrown my hat in the ring for the Iceman Cometh Mtn Bike race in November, I’m riding hard, recovering smart and getting faster and stronger on the bike everyday.
I’ll have more updates on the process and Iceman over the next few weeks. Thanks for stopping by RedGroupRacing.com
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Kincaid Stampede Rollerski Race
The crisp fall days bring more rollerskiing time trials to the table as we transition from dryland training into the ski racing season. We capped off a 7-week training block by r-ski racing out at Kincaid park. I always think its more exciting and enjoyable to do a hard effort with a bib on my back and family and friends out there cheering! Here’s the lead pack of guys circling through a
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Healing up AND getting lost
After a couple workouts on the double pole machine, my leg has been feeling much better. It just needed a few days to heal up, and now its doing great!
It has been absolutely beautiful here the last several days… warm, sunny, the trees are starting to change colors… so on Friday morning when I woke up, I decided to go for a nice easy hour and a half mountain bike ride. I started biking down the trail that connects me to some nice easy trails I have biked several times before, but a side trail caught my eye. I felt like a little exploring would be fun, so I took it. It was a beautiful trail that lead me to another trail, that lead me to a loop that I have run before. So my plan was to bike the loop and then go back home the way I came. It was going to be a perfect hour and a half ride… BUT I did the loop and I missed the trail that I had come in on, so I turned around and headed back. This time being extra alert for the trail that had gotten me there. It must be some crazy disappering super secret trail or something because I could not find it at all! But I did find another trail that headed in the same direction as my mystery trail, so I figured I could just take that one. So I took that trail down. It was a super fun trail, all downhill with some nice switchbacks, and it popped me out onto a road. Sweet! Now all I had to do was follow the road down the mountain to my apartment! I biked in the direction of home, and thought I was in for a nice coast down the mountain for the rest of my ride. But I was wrong. I could see where I wanted to be… WAY down the mountain, and I was climbing again, and then a switchback later heading in the wrong direction. So I climbed for a while, passed some workers in someones yard, and then I started heading back down the mountain… then back up and past the workers again, and again! Since I was obviously going in circles, I stopped to ask the workers that I passed several times for directions OFF the top of the mountain. They were very nice and told me how to get home. It involved me going down the mountain on the opposite side that I wanted to be on, but at least it would get me into town and I could find my way back home from there! So by the time I biked back to my place I had been out for over 3 hours and 10 minutes. NICE. -
Quick Update
Hello All!br /br /I am currently in Lake Placid, New York for a 12-day training camp at the Olympic Training Center. Coming east for this camp every fall is a yearly tradition. The Sun Valley Team is currently here but will soon be joined by the CXC team, the National Team, and several other top skiers from around the country. It is always a good camp with a high caliber of athletes and a tough week of training. The roller skiing is amazing out here with access to several country roads providing varying terrain. We went for a run in the Adirondak State Park today and enjoyed the beauty of the fall colors around us. br /br /We have some good training ahead of us. I will be sure to update more in the next few days!div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903545846797966075-6573013093930811949?l=in-the-arena-nicole.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
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New Johnny Klister Series: Nordic Skiing the Movie.
The part of Reid Lutter will be played by Tobey MacGuire.
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The part of Reid Lutter will be played by Tobey MacGuire.
img src=”http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqn2bdRLBS1qzt3xbo1_500.jpg”/br/br/The part of Reid Lutter will be played by Tobey MacGuire.
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Tired
Despite getting almost 10 hours of sleep last night, I woke up this morning feeling tired. My plan was to do a trail running race but decided to skip it and went for an easy skate rollerski instead…
This past week has been Homecoming at NMU so there were parties all around town. A few nights ago I woke up at 1 am to an impersonation of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The guy was good and I had a laugh but it took me an hour to fall back asleep. Then the next day I did hard level 4 skate intervals in the afternoon and couldn’t get to sleep until midnight. So I think it caught up with me. On my ski this morning my legs felt slow and sluggish and my heart rate was a little higher than usual. But I think by tomorrow or Monday I should be back and feeling rested.
Even though I have been tired the last few days, up until now I have been feeling great. Last weekend I had a very successful couple of days in Traverse City, MI. On Friday night I gave a presentation for the ski community about training for the Olympics. Saturday morning Dan and I held a skate rollerski clinic. On Sunday I joined local skier Milan Biac on a beautiful classic over distance ski on Mission Peninsula. On Monday when I was back in Marquette I went out for my first mountain bike ride in three years. It was awesome! Tuesday I had level 3 classic intervals and Wednesday level 4 skate intervals.
Sunset over Elk Lake, MI
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And so it begins…
Today I embark on the first journey of the season. Once this trip begins I may not stop rolling until March. And maybe not even then. The nominal reason for this trip is a training camp over in Lake Placid, NY, but I am going to take advantage of a rest week and take my time getting over there. The current plan includes brief visits to Yakutat, Gustavus, Sitka, Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, BC, and Nanaimo, BC, before ending up at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid and getting back to the hard core ski training.
I put Nanaimo on the list of places to visit because it’s the birthplace of Nanaimo bars. Utter deliciousness. My traveling partner foolishly left the planning up to me so we’re going to find ourselves in places like Nanaimo. If anyone knows of any other points of culinary interest that I should put on my list of to-visit places, please, let me know. I only happen to know about Nanaimo because my mom makes Nanaimo bars during the Holidays.
Two weeks in Lake Placid and then the race season will be approaching fast. Assuming I don’t indulge in too many of Nanaimo’s namesakes, I should be ready to hit the races hard. I can’t wait. I stayed in Alaska ALL summer and I have been anticipating being back on the road. Back on the road, living from a bag, wandering from town to town, without a permanent address. That’s home.
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And so it begins…
Today I embark on the first journey of the season. Once this trip begins I may not stop rolling until March. And maybe not even then. The nominal reason for this trip is a training camp over in Lake Placid, NY, but I am going to take advantage of a rest week and take my time getting over there. The current plan includes brief visits to Yakutat, Gustavus, Sitka, Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, BC, and Nanaimo, BC, before ending up at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid and getting back to the hard core ski training.
I put Nanaimo on the list of places to visit because it’s the birthplace of Nanaimo bars. Utter deliciousness. My traveling partner foolishly left the planning up to me so we’re going to find ourselves in places like Nanaimo. If anyone knows of any other points of culinary interest that I should put on my list of to-visit places, please, let me know. I only happen to know about Nanaimo because my mom makes Nanaimo bars during the Holidays.
Two weeks in Lake Placid and then the race season will be approaching fast. Assuming I don’t indulge in too many of Nanaimo’s namesakes, I should be ready to hit the races hard. I can’t wait. I stayed in Alaska ALL summer and I have been anticipating being back on the road. Back on the road, living from a bag, wandering from town to town, without a permanent address. That’s home.
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And so it begins…
Today I embark on the first journey of the season. Once this trip begins I may not stop rolling until March. And maybe not even then. The nominal reason for this trip is a training camp over in Lake Placid, NY, but I am going to take advantage of a rest week and take my time getting over there. The current plan includes brief visits to Yakutat, Gustavus, Sitka, Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, BC, and Nanaimo, BC, before ending up at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid and getting back to the hard core ski training.
I put Nanaimo on the list of places to visit because it’s the birthplace of Nanaimo bars. Utter deliciousness. My traveling partner foolishly left the planning up to me so we’re going to find ourselves in places like Nanaimo. If anyone knows of any other points of culinary interest that I should put on my list of to-visit places, please, let me know. I only happen to know about Nanaimo because my mom makes Nanaimo bars during the Holidays.
Two weeks in Lake Placid and then the race season will be approaching fast. Assuming I don’t indulge in too many of Nanaimo’s namesakes, I should be ready to hit the races hard. I can’t wait. I stayed in Alaska ALL summer and I have been anticipating being back on the road. Back on the road, living from a bag, wandering from town to town, without a permanent address. That’s home.
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And so it begins…
Today I embark on the first journey of the season. Once this trip begins I may not stop rolling until March. And maybe not even then. The nominal reason for this trip is a training camp over in Lake Placid, NY, but I am going to take advantage of a rest week and take my time getting over there. The current plan includes brief visits to Yakutat, Gustavus, Sitka, Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, BC, and Nanaimo, BC, before ending up at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid and getting back to the hard core ski training.
I put Nanaimo on the list of places to visit because it’s the birthplace of Nanaimo bars. Utter deliciousness. My traveling partner foolishly left the planning up to me so we’re going to find ourselves in places like Nanaimo. If anyone knows of any other points of culinary interest that I should put on my list of to-visit places, please, let me know. I only happen to know about Nanaimo because my mom makes Nanaimo bars during the Holidays.
Two weeks in Lake Placid and then the race season will be approaching fast. Assuming I don’t indulge in too many of Nanaimo’s namesakes, I should be ready to hit the races hard. I can’t wait. I stayed in Alaska ALL summer and I have been anticipating being back on the road. Back on the road, living from a bag, wandering from town to town, without a permanent address. That’s home.
