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Firstbeat Recovery Index
Over the past year we’ve been working with the Firstbeat system to track training and assess recovery. We started this project in order to work with Kris Freeman and Tad Elliott. Kris is a type-1 diabetic, and managing his training and racing stresses coupled with the complexity of his endocrine response has made it challenging […]
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Exel X-Curve Pole Test
If you are enough of an equipment nerd to read the articles on this site, then you’ve probably noticed the Exel Curve ski pole in videos and pictures this season. It’s easy to spot with its conspicuously not-straight shape, and Ole Einar Bjørndalen’s public endorsement and use of the pole has been hard to miss. […]
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Big Skate Ski Test
On Friday our friend Mike Wynn drove over from Glens Falls to ski with us. Mike is one of the best ski testers we’ve worked with, so we decided to take the opportunity to put together a test. The snowpack has been mostly insensitive to grinds since our return from Europe, but different ski constructions […]
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Birkie Recommendation
OK – it’s past time to finalize a Birkie recommendation, with apologies for being a bit late. We’ve just finished the pre-race team meeting for the pursuit races here in Falun, and for those events we’ll make the final call about 45 minutes before the start of the race. We don’t have that luxury for […]
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Birkie Test 2-13
It’s a little early to be publicizing this as a real “Birkie test”, but it’s a test on the Birkie trail. So we’re going with it. Jeff Tumbleson got out on some matched skis this morning to test some paraffin and powder combinations. He focused primarily on our recommended candidates – LF Green, HF Blue, […]
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Birkie Wax Kit
We’ve put together a “do it yourself” Birkie wax package for 2015. You can buy it at our online store at http://shop.caldwellsport.com/2015-birkie-race-wax-kit/. It’s a tricky thing to do considering how notoriously unreliable the long and medium term forecasting has been this year. So we’ve made this package as flexible as we can, focusing on limiting potential […]
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Amy’s Big Ski Test
by Amy Caldwell I spent the morning skiing intervals on 4 different ski models in order to see how they stacked up against one another at threshold plus. I would like to say that the testing was really aimed at some higher knowledge and in the interest of our customers, but the reality is that […]
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Bimodal Distributions in Kick Waxing
In the past month we’ve had lots of opportunity to wax classic skis in cold new snow, and we’ve seen some interesting and sometimes confusing results. Over the past two weekends with Super Tour races in Craftsbury, we’ve started making a bit of sense out of the situation. In large part this is thanks to […]
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US Nationals Report (a bit late)
Erik Mundahl worked with Amy on ski service at US Nationals last month in Houghton Michigan. At my request he dutifully filed a full report in elegant prose, promptly on January 14th. I thought that I would create a full edited write-up with excerpts from both Erik and Amy’s reports on the week in Houghton, […]
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Craftsbury Marathon Waxing and Grinding Schedule
The Craftsbury Outdoor Center is about to host a remarkable series of races over the next two weekends, including Masters Nationals, The Craftsbury Marathon, two Super Tour weekends, Dartmouth Carnival, and an Eastern Cup weekend. We’ll be floating around the place in one capacity or another for most of the racing. Aside from doing race […]
