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Joey Izzo, Anna Izzo, Maile Sapp, Evan Greenberg and Cougar Smith rollerskied for the first time! They followed it up with some strength circuits with the older athletes. They are excited for winter, are you?
Gore XC athletes pictured training this spring
Initiated in May 2007, NYSEF XC expanded to the Gore/North Creek Region. We will keep this program going through the fall and winter. This is a fall and winter training program/race team designed for J2 through high school aged cross-country ski racers competing at the regional and junior national level. This program is a supplement to other fall sports and your winter ski team. See the attachment for program details.
The program will meet every other Sunday (with two sessions) during the fall months and continue through the winter based around our race schedule. Each athlete will receive a weekly training plan via email once their fall sport has ended, which will outline the type of training week, the weekly training hours and training goals. The athlete and coach will communicate via email and phone during the week as needed. Gore region athletes will also be encouraged to travel up to Lake Placid for training sessions.
The fall program will get underway Sunday, September 9 in North Creek.
Download the program packet at gore-xc-program-packet-fallwinter-2007.doc
Please email Margaret at mcmaher@alumni.unh.edu with questions or to sign up.
August has been gorgeous here in the east and we were blessed with a cool, fairly dry week of training at the National Guard Ethan Allen Biathlon Range and staying at the army barracks. It’s been a summer of mainly slow fire and running combos, so it was great to get back to roller skiing and shooting. Especially, since I am struggling a bit with shooting with a heart rate this summer. Not a favorable weakness I admit, but I plan to re-work my shooting training and mental training this fall to turn that weakness into a strength. So, I welcome the challenge. (more)
NYSEF Alumni Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke excel in rollerski races in Ostersund, Sweden during their recent training camp. The races were held on the courses for the 2008 Biathlon World Championships! Good things to come…
Highlights include:
Sunday, August 26. Tim Burke Fourth Ostersund Pursuit.
Saturday, August 25. Tim Burke Wins Ostersund Sprint; Lowell Bailey Nabs Third Place.
Friday, August 24. Lowell Bailey Places Third in Ostersund Roller Ski Race.
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Monday: 1pm Official Training K90
Tuesday: 1pm Competition K90
Wednesday: 1pm Competition K90
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NYSEF alumni Billy Demong (3-time Olympian) finishes ninth in front of 5,000 spectators. For complete results go to www.fis-ski.com
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In the Spotlight: Nina Lussi of Lake Placid, NY flying high on Park City’s K64 meter hill
I took a pretty large group of the Eastern team and headed out to park city for a week of training and competition in mid August. It was a busy, exhausting, hot, dry and crazy week for everyone.
The event was the 9th Annual Nor. Am. Jindro Mayer Springer Tournee. Everyone got a lot of jumps in on the K-64 & K-90. A lucky few even got a handful of jumps on the K-120. There were a couple of days where the athletes had to deal with too many people on the jump for training. I remember one session that Nick F. and Chris L. had 5-6 jumps and were getting ready to finish up training just as kids like Nina, Spencer Danielle and Zach were getting only their 2nd or 3rd jump of the day. It was frustrating but in hindsight it is always good to see that many kids jumping in North America, it gives us a little hope. Athletes ranged from our own Billy D and Johnny Spillane to 10-11 year old Canadian juniors taking their first K-90 jumps ever; 71 names were on the result list at the end of the day.
The trip was more about training on different hills and experience than it was about the competition and results. We had some good jumps, some bad jumps, even a few falls…
Alex and Cooper spent some time roller skiing with the national team. They did a little treadmill testing with DJ and Billy and did a hard race at Soldier Hollow. Alex made race day pretty interesting for us all. He made a wrong turn following a couple of the CAN skiers. I can only assume, and hope, that he was so focused on passing them that he just kept chasing them down like a wild man and not paying attention to trivial things like a fork in the road. After the race he was frustrated with himself, so he then went on to do the race course again, just so he could get a legitimate time for the correct course. He was everyone’s hero, as well as entertainment, that day. By the way, did i mention that Alex missed his trial jump also??? Least amount of jumps for the day but the most Km’s skied.
Pete and Nina were both on the podium for the K-64. Pete won the first comp and tied for 2nd, less than a point behind, for the second comp. Nina was 2nd in both events to the local favorite, but had some very good technical jumps.
We had a little excitement on the jump hill also. Danielle set a new personal best distance, but she was also the first victim, on the first day, first session, 2nd jump. Her boot and heel piece were not excited about working together. She flew off the K-90 and at about 25 meters her strap came out of her boot and she went down tumbling, after catching her ski on her shoulder in mid-air. She walked away from it with only a few scratches on her chin and a new found concern for her equipment and new safety straps.
Spencer crashed on the first comp day on the K-64. He was having some good jumps but unfortunately he caught an edge in his telemark and it sent him spinning into the grass twisting and turning. Spencer hobbled out of the outrun with a sprained ankle that sidelined him for the rest of the weekend.
On the last day of the trip, after the NH boys had left town, the LP crowd had one last session before lunch. Unfortunately Nina took a nasty looking fall on the K-90. She had a good looking jump but also had her right ski tip shear and then tuck under and behind her. It rolled her over in the air and she landed just past the knoll with a loud “whack.” She tried to fight off the EMT’s as best she could, but to no avail. Eventually she would feel normal again but we did have to spend a few hours in the hospital to make sure she didn’t scramble her mind too much. The CT pictures proved to the doctors that she still had a fully functioning brain so they let us take her home.
Our trip home was the red eye flight, so everyone was quite tired. The first half of the trip home was spent making sure Nina didn’t fall asleep for too long, and the last half was spent sleeping.
NYSEF Coach Casey Colby
Initiated in May 2007, NYSEF XC expanded to the Gore/North Creek Region. Seven athletes from North Creek, North River, Scotia, Clifton Park and even down south New Paltz, join up once a week for summer xc ski training.
The team before a 3 hour skate ski on the bike path in Lake George
pictured left to right: Elizabeth Izzo, Pete Morehouse, Tyler Morse, Coach Margaret, Dan Stevens, Emily Burns, Holly Osowiecki, Jordan Stern and Kati Christoffel
Our focus has been on overall fitness and technique, including strength, rollerskiing, ski walking/bounding, mobility and having a good time training. We’ve had 10 solid training days, each with two sessions per day, and still two more training days left this summer. All athletes have been working hard and making technical improvements. We are all excited about the upcoming winter.
We still found snow in May at Gore!
A rainy rollerski…half way through an 18 mile skate rollerski
Lowell and Tim will be training in Sweden for a couple more weeks before returning to Lake Placid. Here Lowell is on the treadmill with Swedish coach Per to the right. Updates from the camp.
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Jack Tanny, Palmer Feinberg, Ethan Wood, Donny Nadon hard at work!
Calling all young skiers….we want you to join us. To help keep us fit, active and thinking skiing in the summer, we are offering Intro-2-Rollerskiing and Strength sessions for athletes under the age of 14.
The details….
Tuesday, August 21, 3:30 PM, Mt. Van Hoevenberg, meet at the biathlon side parking lot for classic skiing on the approach road, at 5 PM we will be joined by the older NYSEF athletes for a strength circuit session, athletes can be picked up at 6:30 PM
Tuesday, August 28, same time, same place, same deal but skate skiing this session!
What you need…
your winter boots for the technique of the day
your winter ski poles for the technique of the day
bike helmet (absolutely must have!)
bike gloves or thin winter gloves if you think you’ll need them to reduce blisters
elbow pads, knee pads and/or long active pants if you think you’ll need them
water and snack
sneakers
dry shirt
raincoat (if needed)
If you have any friends interested, please pass the word along. Email Margaret (mcmaher@alumni.unh.edu) to sign up, include what type of boots you have so we can round up the appropriate number of rollerskis with the correct bindings.
I’m taking off tomorrow morning for a three-week training camp in Sweden. During the first week of the camp we will be training in Solleftea, which is Per’s hometown. This week will consist of a “normal” week of training as well as the US Biathlon Team “national championship in orienteering”, which basically determines bragging rights for the rest of the camp. (more of the story – updates to come)
CALLAGHAN VALLEY, B.C. (Aug. 1) – World Championships nordic combined medalist Bill Demong (Vermontville, NY) gives the nordic venues for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver two thumbs up. He feels they will be “awesome” once they’re completed and organizers get to stage some test events this winter and next.
Demong, silver medalist in the individual event last March at Worlds in Sapporo, Japan, was one of only three athletes who made a two-day visit – at the request of VANOC (the Vancouver Organizing Committee) – to the $100 million nordic venues in this heavily forested valley not far from the renowned alpine slopes and sliding venue (i.e., bobsled, luge, skeleton) at Whistler resort. The 27-year-old is aiming to become only the third U.S. nordic combined skier to compete in four Winter Games. (more)
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NYSEF Alum and 2006 Olympian Tim Burke launches official webpage. The site will includes photos, current results and updates from his travel, training and racing. This should be a regular stop for anyone following the exciting carrer of this Biathlete currently ranked 25th in the world after the 2006-07 season. View Site
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The New York Ski Educational Foundation had a great camp hosted at the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid, NY from July 25-30. Athletes had a big volume week with 18 hours in 5 full days of training. We joined up with the NENSA J2/EHSC Camp for a sweet adventure competition at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Three teams of 11 athletes tried to finish as close to a time of 3 hours and 35 minutes, as predicted by the coaches. There were 5 legs, each consisting of a different task - the kids didn’t know what was coming at them next. Three of the legs were running out on the trails where they were to find a station: one station of wheelbarrels, crab walks, ranger crawls and single leg hops, one station of build a human pyramid with your team having as few points of contact on the ground, and one station searching for 6 cones around the Ladies 5k loop where they had to unscramble the letters written on the cones to spell Lowell Bailey. One classic rollerskiing leg and 1 skate rollerskiing leg, each that had drills of no-pole, skiing with one-pole and making a train with your team down the Approach Road. On top of that, the coaches put all their equipment in a huge pile and they had to find their gear, that was a pretty funny sight! Teams were sent out to different stations and after each leg they had to check back in at the biathlon stadium, giving them some distance to cover. Each leg was scored based on teamwork with 1 minute time bonuses for the leg. 3 hours and 45 minutes later we had 33 tired juniors! The last task was a surprise at the end – in 1 minute with no talking, pick one person from your team to name everyone on your team for an additional time bonus. Do you know your new teammates? This long morning turned out to be a great OD session.
The rest of the training week looked like this…
Arrive Wednesday afternoon: Ski walking with short bounding repeats (1.75 hrs)
Thursday AM: Skate Technique Session with NENSA Juniors (1.5 hrs)
Thursday PM: Mobility and Strength Circuits (1 hr)
Friday AM into afternoon: Adventure Day with NENSA Group (3.75 hrs)
Saturday AM: Classic Technique and Distance Session (1.75 hrs)
Saturday PM: Skate Technique and Drills (1.5 hrs)
Sunday AM: Distance Double Pole, Keene to Jay Rd - 18.6 miles! (2 hrs)
Sunday PM: Hike Cascade and Porter Mountains (2.75 hrs)
Monday AM: Combo Distance Ski in Wilmington (2 hrs)
Depart after lunch!
The first evening was kicked off with a great talk by local Olympic Biathletes Tim Burke and Lowell Bailey. The other evenings were filled with talks from the NENSA Coaches, Margaret and Paul Stone! Thanks to Paul Stone from UVM and Jon Stern with New Paltz High School for helping coach!!
Will you be ready for winter? Train on…
