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Andy, Frank (A + F pictured as coaches on left) and I met at the commuter parking lot, exit 57 off 95N headed to Maine on Frday afternoon. For those of you considering using this lot, it is nearly 1 hour from Cambridge on a light to moderate traffic day on any given friday afternoon.
After [...]

Intermission. 
I had a week between the two races, and even though I had decided to skip the next race, the original plan was to recover and maybe rent a car and explore the area, checking out some other ski trails.  But ten hours of hard skiing in the cold dry air brought the little airplane [...]

Prelude. 

The wax rep in the ski shop in Mora, Sweden, said it like this: “People in the last wave can’t ski right.  They don’t train right, they don’t eat right, they don’t dress right, they don’t wax right.  Half of them shouldn’t even be doing a race like Vasaloppet.” 
Harsh words indeed, but I had [...]

By Rob Bradlee

I’m always reining in the most enthusiastic athletes that I coach.  They want to do hard workouts every day.  But, I point out that doing a hard workout is only valuable if your body is rested and ready to work hard.  If they haven’t recovered from the last workout then they will just [...]