by Dina Mishev, Featured Athlete | The last time I came to you I was eating cookie dough. Quite a bit of it. With chocolate chips and peanut butter M&Ms in it. What am I eating this time around? Brown rice. With a few pieces of mango, ¼ cup of blueberries, and ¼ of an apple. I know. Crazy, crazy stuff…

Janelle, her husband Mark, and friend Summer Ruckman started off their project to be the first people to climb all the routes made famous by a book published in 1979, The 50 Classic Climbs of North America. Watch the video summary of the Kor Ingalls Route in the desert north of Moab, Utah…

by Dina Mishev, Featured Athlete | Perhaps today isn’t the best day for me to write my first post about working with nutritionist and fellow 2010 Featured Athlete Aimee Gallo. I made myself chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. And have continued eating them through lunch as I’ve blown off an 80-mile bike ride…

by Erin Gray, Featured Athlete | As Friday approached, I had a few things on my mind. First things first — three loads of laundry and four overnight bags to pack for the kids. Teddy bears, favorite blankets and Star Wars guys were essentials, of course! How was I going to manage to pull this off? But I also had this competitive urge in me as I was prepping for our first trip to California, and our first international qualifier…

by Janelle Smiley, Featured Athlete | This is my first year in the position of the Director of Events for the Crested Butte Nordic Council. We host several events, but the largest is the Alley Loop. This is a great event that draws everyone from the casual recreational to the elite athlete. It requires planning and planning, and is also the largest race that runs through this small town…

by Erin Gray, Featured Athlete | The first tournament of the season began in Sussex, Wisconsin. I know what you are thinking — beach volleyball in the midwest, in February?? Yes! My partner Kat and I decided to start our season a little early with our first tournament at an indoor sand volleyball facility in Wisconsin…

Stacey Cook, U.S. Ski Team Member, October 28th
The first race of the year is now under my belt! We raced on a glacier in Austria called Solden, under blue skis and on very icy conditions. Solden is always a weird race…

Stacey Cook, U.S. Ski Team Member, October 7th
Steve Fosset mania has hit Mammoth, kind of literally actually. Rumors started to spread early in the week that a guy from a local sports store found a wallet and pilot’s license with Steve Fosset’s name on it. When he mentioned finding it to a friend and turned in the stuff to the local police, things in our quiet town started to stir…

Stacey Cook, U.S. Ski Team Member, October 1st
Out of the four different years I have been to New Zealand, this year welcomed us with the biggest snow base I had seen yet. New Zealand is always a starter camp for our team, in which we ease back into full speed training after a good three months of summer workouts under our belts…

Stacey Cook, U.S. Ski Team Member, July 30th
The adventurous spirit inside me just does not want to be put in a closet right now. Six days after completing my first triathlon, I set out on my first backpacking trip. Two friends and I set a very ambitious itinerary from Mammoth to Yosemite Valley — 60 miles in just 2½ days…