World Class Nordic skier wins NC 10000 in trainers (during base training season)!

Nordic skiers are the fittest people on the planet. No surprise.

33:46 is her time?

In my country, few years ago a world class Olympic triathlete was second (lost in the last lap) at the NC 10K. It just means that the competition sucks - in both cases - and talented people there rather do triathlon or XC skiing that are less competitive and with no Africans.

Peter Andersson wrote:

Norweigian woman Kristin Steira...entered the National Championships 10000 meters and crushed the entire field, in trainers, during her base training season...

Wearing trainers AND during "base training" ??

Take THAT Jason Rexing.

A new legend is born.....

With proper training she could run 32.00 (lose some upper body weight etc). Note that IK ran 30.13 and 30.23 28 years

ago.

Susanne Wigene of Norway ran 30.3x at the Europeans in 2006

and was second. The winner was later busted (EPO).

Anyone using different shoes for racing and training is a sheep.

asdf32 wrote:

Anyone using different shoes for racing and training is a sheep.

Spikes don't hold up very well to base training.

Dab Wigins wrote:

Nordic skiers are the fittest people on the planet. No surprise.

WRONG.

CrossFit Elite Athletes are the fittest people on the planet.

Case closed.

Have the highest VO2 max (typically) but we all know this has nothing to do with running economy. I expect she could crack 32:00 if she trained for it.

That's what Nike would have you believe.

yyy wrote:

With proper training she could run 32.00 (lose some upper body weight etc). Note that IK ran 30.13 and 30.23 28 years

ago.

Susanne Wigene of Norway ran 30.3x at the Europeans in 2006

and was second. The winner was later busted (EPO).

not sure she has much weight to lose -

good for her - but embarassing for norway's runners.

ackeryly wrote:

yyy wrote:

With proper training she could run 32.00 (lose some upper body weight etc). Note that IK ran 30.13 and 30.23 28 years

ago.

Susanne Wigene of Norway ran 30.3x at the Europeans in 2006

and was second. The winner was later busted (EPO).

not sure she has much weight to lose -

http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/03/sport/friidrett/kristin_stormer_steira/7485332/

good for her - but embarassing for norway's runners.

"Steira was a minute and 46 seconds ahead of silver medalist Fride Vullum-Bridges, and was thus well over a lap ahead of the nearest competitor"

Wow. You might expect these times in masters competition in a country like Norway. But the land of Bislett, Ingrid Kristiansen, Grete Waitz?

You'd think they'd have a half dozen or more in the 32s or low 33s.

Nordic skiing base training is very similar to crossfit with lots of heavy lifts, and no slow jogging.

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

Dab Wigins wrote:

Nordic skiers are the fittest people on the planet. No surprise.

WRONG.

CrossFit Elite Athletes are the fittest people on the planet.

Case closed.

Um, you cannot use the terms "cross fit" and "athletes" in the same sentence.

Ingrid agrees: "to win by one and a half laps is just tragic", Kristiansen told NRK.

http://www.nrk.no/sport/kristiansen-kritisk-til-lopernivaet-1.11897981

firsttimeonthisputer wrote:

Nordic skiing base training is very similar to crossfit with lots of heavy lifts, and no slow jogging.

Not at all true. They do a lot of volume, 2x as much as runners, and a lot is at easy L1-L2 effort. They can do a lot of quality work but the principles of training are quite similar to running.

Perhaps we should note that Norway only has a population of 5.1 million. Kenya and Ethiopia, besides their much more dominant running cultures, have 45 and 88 million people respectively.

yyy wrote:

With proper training she could run 32.00 (lose some upper body weight etc). Note that IK ran 30.13 and 30.23 28 years

ago.

Do you know that she´s been suspended from the Norweigian national ski team because her BMI was too low?

Is that at all like saying you can't enter the Golden Corral because you're too fat?