Cross Country Ski Training News and Tips

Good. Really good. Maybe too good?

10/16/2007 - By Zach Caldwell

Today’s session was double-pole intervals - 5X3min with 4 min recovery, targeting 10mMol/L by the end of the workout. Kris’s plan was to sit-in on the sprinters for at least the first couple of intervals, and then see how it was going.,

Lake Placid 07 Update #2

10/16/2007 - By Pete Vordenberg, TeamToday.org

The essential steps: set an overall goal, find ways of measuring progress, concentrate on what you are doing, develop the skills necessary to take advantage of the opportunities available, AND keep raising the stakes.,

Generate Power from the Weak Side doing V2 Alternate

10/15/2007 - By Mike Muha

V2-Alternate, also called the two-skate, is essentially doing a doublepole on every second skate push. Done right, the leg push is equal on both sides. But are you doing it right?,

Rollerski photos from Saturday's Sten Fjeldheim Camp

10/10/2007 - By Mike Muha

Here's more photos from Saturday ski clinic sponsored by the Grand Rapdis Nordic Ski Team sponsored. Northern Michigan University coaches Sten Fjeldhiem and Jenny Ryan work with skiers on skating technique on rollerskis.,

Feeling Lazy

10/10/2007 - By Zach Caldwell

For the last couple of days Kris has reported feeling "lazy". This is one of those words. Kris isn’t lazy, and he knows he’s not lazy. Feeling "lazy" means that his body is ready to go. This is good.,

Sten Fjeldheim: Do the Dirty Johnson!

10/9/2007 - By Mike Muha

The "Dirty johnson" allegedly earned it's name when Andrew Johnson demonstrated it to a group of skiers and coaches.

GRNST Sten Fjeldheim Clinic, Saturday Morning photos

10/8/2007 - By Mike Muha

Here's some photos from the Saturday morning dryland session at the Grand Rapdis Nordic Ski Team sponsored cross country ski clinic with Northern Michigan University coaches Sten Fjeldhiem and Jenny Ryan.,

Good Indications from Lake Placid

10/8/2007 - By Zach Caldwell

Kris has been in Lake Placid with the rest of the National Team, and a bunch of others, for the past couple of days. Friday was a very easy day of training, just about an hour of skating, easy. Today Kris did his first session with the sprinters...,

Unsatisfactory Test

10/5/2007 - By Zach Caldwell

Kris ran 21:13 on Sunapee today - 31 seconds off his best time, and about 45 seconds off what we were hoping to see. This is bad news, but it provide some valuable context and and emphasis to what we saw in the last block.,

Lake Placid Camp 07 - update #1

10/4/2007 - By Pete Vordenberg, TeamToday.org

Nat. Coaches Conf. Lake Placid Camp. 2 Questions. Question 1. We only have X amount of time to train? Question 2. How high are the elbows in double poling and V2 skiing?,

Where have we been?

10/4/2007 - By Pete Vordenberg, TeamToday.org

Getting hitched!,

CXC Team Hits the Porkies in the UP

10/2/2007 - By CXC Skiing

CXC Team trained a week in the Porcupine Mountains of Upper Peninsula, Michigan, and a week at home in Hayward in September.,

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