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Another season over
12 March 06 07:32 AM
It's been way over freezing here this week and the weekend looks even warmer with rain. That means the end of the ski season for us nordic buffs. I didn't have much to say this year except for posting about the team that I helped coach this year. What Read More...
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Houghton fun!
21 December 05 04:37 AM
I haven't written much yet this year about skiing. I have not been idle though. This year I have been helping to coach our local high school team and it has been a great experience so far. Though I love the geeky aspects of analyzing ski technique, so Read More...
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Green Bay Nordic
31 May 05 06:40 AM
Join us for an organization meeting of Green Bay Nordic, a new ski club for our area. (details below) We think the time has come to make Green Bay the place where nordic skiing, year round activities, a love of health and fitness and a sense of adventure Read More...
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Weather for a fee
01 May 05 09:47 AM
The long discussion in this blog , pretty much covers the range of opinion. That range is pretty much 99% opposed, 1% in favor of making it illegal for the National Weather Service to transmit feeds of the data it collects and forcasts it makes unless Read More...
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End of the ski season
25 March 05 01:26 AM
It's 4 in the morning and I am waiting for a Storage Array Network to finish formatting and moving data as part of a logical drive expansion. My palms are sweaty. The last time I did anything like this, the array went south and I spent three full days, Read More...
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Skiing in Norway
11 January 05 04:40 AM
I made my second annual trip to Norway last week. Oslo looked terrible, having recieved and lost it's snow 3 times already this season according to Terje. PS, Terje knows his sushi. On the way to Lillehammer, things didn't look any better. Lillehammer Read More...
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Norway Sweden - day three
09 September 04 06:31 PM
A belated account of my third day and last day in Norway last winter, definitely the most memorable of the trip, and arguably, the most memorable day of skiing and Nordic fun I have ever had. Read More...
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Birkie breakdown 2004, or Mark Ernst is right
16 April 04 08:58 PM
I finally come to grips with the horrible truth of my 2004 Birkie. Read More...
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Norway/Sweden Day 2
16 February 04 08:20 PM
The previous night ended late, around 1:00 AM and a cold walk from the jazz joint. Fun, warm glow and a “definite plan” for the next day to get up around 8 and be skiing by 9:30 for a long day of easy skiing and picture taking at the Holmenkollen. Problem Read More...
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Norway/Sweden- day one
03 February 04 08:21 PM
OK, I have been back from my Norway (for skiing) and Sweden (for computer architecture) trip for almost a week, and still I'm silent. The truth is, I have been both behind at work, behind in ski training, and trying to catch up with all the idea soup Read More...
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Pete Vordenberg speaks!
14 January 04 05:39 PM
In a post to the internet newsgroup rec.skiing.nordic Pete Vordenburg responded to the almost constant technique discussion that takes place there. I quoted it in an article here to preserve because there is a lot of great stuff there. Getting skiers Read More...
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More on USSA technique C/O coach Bryan Fish
25 November 03 07:20 PM
I had the privilege of spending a full six hours one on one with one of the best coaches in the Midwest last weekend. Bryan Fish coaches the Division 1, UWGB nordic ski team as well as helping with the USSA development team. Like Scott Wilson the previous Read More...
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USSA Technique shocker!
20 November 03 04:19 PM
Over the weekend I attended the coaches clinic put on by Central Cross Country (CXC) and their program manager, Scott Wilson. It was an excellent program, even though it was adjusted quite a bit because the high school organization meeting ran over by Read More...
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Weekend of work
10 November 03 11:42 AM
Green Bay's regular hill bounding class hit a new high in participation this week. 26 according to Mark's official count. It was great to see. 2 hours of sometimes hard, sometimes gruesomely hard excercises. All I can say is that thank God that skiing Read More...
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Supporting CXC at the CXC Coaches Education Clinic following Wisconsin Nordic Coaches Fall Mtg
05 November 03 06:44 PM
CXC will be doing a clinic for the coaches at the Wisconsin Nordic Coaches Fall Meeting in Iola, WI on Nov. 15th.. The meeting will be at the Iola Winter Sports Club - located on County MM north of Iola about 1 mile west of Hy 49. The clinic will begin Read More...
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