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How was your first ski of the year? Was it a bit awkward or did your skiing form feel just like you left it at the end of last season?

A runner can run on a track and have a pretty accurate measure of how he/she is progressing. A cyclist can measure wattage. A skier tries to measure performance with things like roller skiing time trials and uphill running tests, but nothing is really ski

Karl, Leena and I have been living in Helsinki for the past two and a half weeks and will be here for a total of three months.

One of the coolest things about living in a new place is finding all the trails to play on, the ones that are revered by those who have lived there before. In Ottawa, we like to introduce newcomers to trails like King Mountain, Skyline, Wolf Trail, Burma,

In the middle of June, I went to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, on the Sibley Peninsula in order to attend a training camp put on by NTDC Thunder Bay and the Canadian National Ski Team.

This past weekend was the Jim Howe Memorial Cross Country Running Race held at the Hornet's Nest in Ottawa. As promised, XC Ottawa showed up with a strong representation and the urge to make it hurt!

Some people may refer to me as "Megan the Klutz" (I had a book with that title when I was a kid) and sometimes it couldn't be more true! How many other cross country skiers (a non-contact sport I might add) have undergone 3 orthopedic surgeries in 4 summers (two ankles and now a knee)??

Karl's Athlete Diary entry!

Like a child looking out the window on Christmas eve, hoping to catch a glimpse of St Nicholas, I spend free time (if available!) looking through the world wide web for the oncoming winter.

So it’s late summer, and you're well into your summer routine: biking, walking, running, swimming at the cottage – whatever it may be. But in the back of your head, there’s the winter, where your real passion lies: cross-country skiing. Here's how to..