February 2008
QUEEN'S CUP: DARING AND SCHWAG
Female skiers and snowboarders in the same contest, airing their stuff in halfpipe and slopestyle. You'll gasp in shock when you find out how the snowboard halfpipe champion was decided. You'll gasp in awe when you find out about the schwag...
XTERRA'S WINTER WORLDS AT 'BASIN
Wanna race? If so, XTERRA Winter World Championships are for you. This multi-stage mini-adventure race has biking on snow, walking up the mountain and skiing down, snowboarding, running and kid's races. It's at Snowbasin, Utah, March 7-9...
THE 'GET READY FOR BIKE SEASON' WORKOUT
Conditioning expert Max Testa is called a genius by the athletes whose performances have jumped up whole levels after Testa trained them. While he tests and trains all athletes, frp, speedskaters to soccer players, cycling is his forte. He tells how to get ready to compete...
THE LEVI LEIPHEIMER ISSUE
He's clean; wholesome, and moving ever closer to winning the Tour de France. He was considered this year's favorite, until the owners of the Tour essentially banned him. Here's how you can do something about an act of unfair sportsmanship by 'da man...
"EAST SIDE" WINS FIRST SCDG SCRIMMAGE
The Roller Derby girls are back! Fans filled the rink for the year's first scrimmage, where four teams joined forces to create demonstration teams East Side and West Side. See the results, and season schedule, as told by Jen Philon, aka: Lady Shatterly...
ADVENTURE SPORTS by WINA STURGEON WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK
PAY ATTENTION!--LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
You see it constantly: people walking in one direction with their head turned in another direction; looking down while driving instead of at the road because they are texting, people not paying attention. Was that why the person on the ski patrol sled had to be loaded onto a helicopter?...
CONGRATS IF YOU QUALIFIED
Thousands of people looked for that coveted yellow banner on their NASTAR race results. NASTAR has become a very big deal, and the news is getting out...
HOW TO GET READY FOR NATIONALS
Whether you're a Masters, NASTAR or club racer, former ski team downhiller Casey Puckett, now a star of the skicross circuit, tells how to get ready for those important final races...
THE MOST UNDERRATED RESORT IN THE U.S.
The "Cowboy Classic" was two GS races at Snow King resort in Jackson, Wyoming. For Masters racers, the resort put on quite a show...
SLIDING RESULTS
The season is over for bobsledders and skeleton pilots. The unbeatable American this year was (surprise) not Zach Lund!...
DERBY GIRLS SCRIMMAGE WITH MEDIA
It's gotta be the funniest media participation event yet---a media scrimmage with the Salt Lake Derby Girls. That is, if any media shows up...
NASTAR NEWS: HOW TO QUALIFY FOR NATIONALS
Qualifications for the Nationals close Monday, Feb. 18. If you haven't qualified yet, here's some last minute tricks to make it...
ADVENTURE SPORTS by WINA STURGEON 2/13/08
Skicross/boardercross racers bummed by lousy course at Jeep King of the Mountain stop at Squaw...Former pro champion racer kicks butt at Masters Regionals...Phil Mahre and others stopped by snow...Ohno says "Oh, yes!" at speedskating World Cup...Brian Lopes wins his first cyclocross...Non-sport thought: how to lock your luggage legally...
HOW TO TRAIN WHILE TRAVELING
You may be on the road, but plan on training. A well known surgeon says your body begins to atrophy in 48 hours without it...
MASTER'S REGIONALS SHOWS WHY WINTER PARK SO POPULAR
What is it about this Colorado Resort that makes it worth lining up for at the lifts? The way the Masters Western Regionals came off may help explain it...
TARA'S JAM AT RYE AIRFIELD, N.H.
Tara Llanes, champion bike and superX racer, may be paralyzed and unable to ride---but she is bringing the mountain bike community together in a whole new way...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: AFTER THE DELUGE
What does the concept 'green' mean to you? It's a good question to ask, because other than the subject of light bulbs and cars and some knowledge of the term 'global warming,' most people can't even describe what green is...
FIRST U. S. SKICROSS WORLD CUP A HIT
Casey Puckett disses Daron Rahlves' start, another 'cross athlete disses the X Games, and Deer Valley lays down a track that will be legendary...especially for the Canadian men's winner...
BUNGEE CORD WORKOUTS WORK
With a cord, a knot and a door, you can create a personalized portable gym designed to work on your weaknesses and make you a better athlete in ways a commercial gym just can't do.. ..
NASTAR NEWS: DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE!
The fastest guy at this season's pacesetting trials was Keith Poore, of Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia. His 1.01 handicap puts him right up there with the elites...
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