Weekly Digest 23.09 – 29.09

Weekly Digest 23.09 – 29.09

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In our weekly digest we ( being totally biased and selfish) selected 5 ski-related news from the last week that rock our boat. Hope they would rock yours too. 1. Unless we missed something, Team Swiss sets the pace for competition by being the first to unveil new race suit design for the upcoming winter. We dig new red-white-azure- baby blue colors a lot more than the last season all-black ones. 2. Moa Lundgren, Junior World champion in sprint, has reached hitherto unheard level in lactate threshold test – 24 mmol/L! Just to remind you, the test is aimed to show how much lactic acid the body can withstand before the muscles stop responding to brains' commands. Normally xcskies tune out at 10-15, maximum 18 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn9V9YQg_i4/?taken-by=moalundgreen 3/ "...The boy who…
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New Snowgrooming Gear Producer Might Seriously Change Things Around – To Better

New Snowgrooming Gear Producer Might Seriously Change Things Around – To Better

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In the last couple of decades a quiet, slow revolution has taken place in cross-country skiing. The revolution in snow grooming. Well prepared trails are not just appreciated - they are totally expected by both pros and enthusiasts wherever they go. Archive videos from the Olympics past prompt almost an indignation: They run on THAT snow mess? didn't they have groomers?! Well, there is one huge problem: snowgrooming machines for cross country skiing are very much a niche product within ( a niche product itself) snowgroomers: No secret that a lion share of those designed & sold is aimed at downhill skiing slopes. Niche products tend to be expensive. A current golden standard of xcskiing trail making, famed PistenBully 100 retails for up to 400.000 euros when new! Somebody took…
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