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posted by Wina Sturgeon | April 14th, 2009 | 8:06 am
To the surprise of practically no one in the cycling world, Tom Boonen is back---with a vengence. He just won the classic Paris-Roubaix road race for his third, and second consecutive victory. It's considered one of the toughest one-day races on the pro circuit, 160 miles of very tough riding, a lot of it on rough, rippled ancient cobblestones.Boonen is the cyclist from Belgium who tested positive last June for the recreational use of cocaine, and was banned from last year's tour de France as a result of the charges. Evidently all is forgiven; Boonen was not fou...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | April 9th, 2009 | 12:11 am
Workouts are like fashions; there's always something new and different. Tae Bo came and went, Pilates is going, we've been there and done that with core and step workouts. The new workout fad is the life transformation, done with an individual coach rather than in a class. You don't do it with a goal in mind, you do it for life.Angela Martindale, a former personal trainer and a nutritionist, is an example of this kind of workout coach. Like many "tranformers," she's opened a small studio. The name of the Olympus Hills, Utah studio, cuts to the chase; it's called Transform Studio. She works with professional athle...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | April 2nd, 2009 | 9:30 am
If you want to improve your fitness and athletic ability, the best things to use are a file folder and a notebook. That's because you can't just go to the gym or out for a run without two important things: constantly updated information, and a plan.Unless you know the latest methods of improving your physical condition and sports performance, you can waste time with workouts that don't help you advance. Meanwhile, your competition may be busy learning and planning; and even though you may be the better athlete, they are the one who will win.
If you're serious about improving your fitness, find as many articles as you can that tell about how to improve in your sport. In...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 31st, 2009 | 1:31 am
Heather Graves stood at the finish of Sunday's Race Of Champions (ROC) to watch her son Tanner race, a bronze medal around her neck, a brace on her leg. She is a pure poster child for the mind set of the Nastar racer."I'm ecstatic that I won the bronze. I was so excited, because I wasn't sure I'd be able to race. I blew out my ACL three weeks ago," the New Hampshire racer said, adding, "I scheduled the surgery for April 3rd, so I could make the Nationals. This is very important to me." She went her fastest, even with a torn up knee. "I had my 'No Fear' sticker on my skis, I think that helped," she said.
A lot of bets went down between people come here to race each othe...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 30th, 2009 | 5:00 am
A four time Nastar overall champion and a U. S. ski team hopeful will be getting sized up for a full U. S. team uniform, including a race suit, and heading down to Chile in August to train in with the team as they prepare for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.Rob Zehner and Kersten Scherer, both of Steamboat, had the fastest raw times in Sunday's Race Of Champions, and won the biggest Nastar prize ever given. The 2009 Nastar Champion is Pete Wither, in the 65-69 platinum class. Pete is also from Steamboat.
For all Nastar National Championship results, including the Race Of Champions, go ...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 29th, 2009 | 12:11 am
It was a day of big news and awards. First, the news: the Nastar Nationals will not be coming back to Steamboat next year. The site for 2010 is still top secret, but it may be at Winter Park, Co. More news about this in Sunday's update.More news: the official snwoboard pacesetter never showed up, so Daron Rahlves, U. S. skicross champion, set the pace on skis. As for next year's Olympics, Daron says, "We'll see what happens. But I'm going for it."
Saturday was awards day; where the best handicaps from each of the two days of racing were added up to arrive at each racer's score. The winners of each age and gender category will compete in Sunday's Race of Champions. While ...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 27th, 2009 | 11:13 pm
The pacesetters made it to Steamboat in time for the first day of racing---most of them, that is. Their journey to get to the Nastar Nationals through Colorado's worst blizzard in decades was, as three-time Olympian Heidi Volker said, "Hilarious." Heidi, who lives in Park City, Utah, boarded a plane in Salt Lake for the hour long trip to Denver along with pacesetter AJ Kitt, who had landed in Salt Lake to continue on to the Denver airport. The two sat back and relaxed. But the plane didn't land in Colorado. After circling over Colorado, where the airport was closed, the plane returned to Salt Lake. Heidi and AJ had no choice---they rented a car for the six hour drive to Steamboat. And,...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 26th, 2009 | 9:03 pm
Will Daron Rhalves and AJ Kitt make it to the course in time to paceset for the nationals? Only Mother Nature knows for sure. At this moment, the two are trying to get to Steamboat from Salt Lake; having rented a car to drive over the snow clogged high passes of Highway 40 from Park City, because the flights to Colorado were all cancelled. But that was fine, because they couldn't have gotten here from the airport anyhow. Every road in Colorado from the airport to Steamboat was closed.
Powder lovers are having a field day, but off the slopes, it's hell getting anywhere. Colorado's governor has declared the state a disaste...
posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 23rd, 2009 | 11:29 pm
Think of spring break, and the image that comes is a beach. But for a growing number of spring breakers, life is a mountain. Crowds of happy campers who come to the slopes for the hero snow of spring think this the best time of the year for snowriding."There's nothing sexier than a good goggle-tan," says Nathan Rafferty, head honcho of
Ski Utah. He adds, "It's a more relaxed atmosphere, and you can find great deals everywhere. Plus, you have the resorts all to yourself."
Well, not at the most popular resorts. There are actual lines at places like
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posted by Wina Sturgeon | March 23rd, 2009 | 9:47 pm
Any U. S. ski team fans out there? If so, this week's swag contest is for you--and a few others--read on!As most ski team fans know, Lindsey Vonn has just broken all records for U. S. women skiers by winning her second overall World Cup Championship title. That means that for two years in a row, she has been the world's best female skier; arguably the best alpine skier in America, even counting Bode Miller and Ted Ligety.
At the same time, she is not to be confused with Lindsey Van, the U. S. ski jumper who just won gold in the women's ski jumping contest at the 2009 Nordic Worl...
But if you have dull edges and suddenly start the scary slide for life, here's how to come out of it smiling---and standing up: First, don't panic. Any sudden move on ice gets magnified, so don't make that typical jerk backwards that sends you out of control, and don't stiffen up. Stay relaxed. This is the hard part: allow your skis or board to slide over the ice patch until you come to softer snow where your edges can bite in. An ice patch is usually small, but the quickest way out of it is to slowly turn across the hill and get to the edge of the trail, where the snow is always softer.
