Your best winter starts with autumn training. The hours go in now, with no result list to tell you whether they worked. Norwegian national team skier Mattis Stenshagen shares the session he does most often in autumn, and the one choice that decides what you get out of it.
Your best winter starts with autumn training. The hours go in now, with no result list to tell you whether they worked. Norwegian national team skier Mattis Stenshagen shares the session he does most often in autumn, and the one choice that decides what you get out of it.
Autumn training for skiers: try these three sessions
Autumn has no result list. You put in the hours without finding out whether they worked, and you have to trust that what you are doing is right. German national team star Pia Fink has built her autumn around three sessions, and each one has a clear job.
Autumn training for skiers: three hours on a good autumn day
Most favourite sessions are about intervals. Johanna Hagstrom's is not. The Swedish sprint star is training towards a home World Championships, and picks the longest and easiest session of her week as her favourite.
Autumn training for skiers: three sessions from Vermont
Your best winter starts with autumn training. But autumn is also the time of year furthest from your last race and furthest from your next one. American cross-country skier Ben Ogden shares three sessions from the Vermont woods, and one of them is as much about your head as your legs.
In New York, 50,000 people sweat their way through the city's streets. Among them we find one who has just fought his way back to life – and one who has never stopped playing with it.