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Lanny competing in the NENSA X-Country race on 8/9/08
Lanny won the race by 1.7seconds.
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(Schalke Soccer Stadium, host of the Biathlon World Team Challenge, December 27th)
11/20/2008- Tracy & Lanny Travel to Sweden for on snow training camp before the start of the World Cup and Lanny's invited to race the Biathlon World Team Challenge with Tim Burke in the Schalke Soccer Stadium in Germany over Christmas!
We've made it to Sweden and thankfully winter hit here a few days before we arrived and they received a small amount of snow, but more importantly they received cold temperatures which allows them to make snow. We've been watching them lay truck load after truck load of snow out on the course. The trails look nice and we'll do some skiing on them this afternoon. Travel went surprisingly smooth, no hassles with delays or security or customs. We did find out while we were in the airport to leave for Europe that the U.S. was given a spot to compete in the Biathlon World Team Challenge. This is a competition that takes place over Christmas in a soccer stadium in Germany. The Soccer stadium is Schalke, one of the biggest of it's kind in Germany. The Arena is a football stronghold. But the stadium has much more to offer than just the beautiful game (soccer). The key to the stadiums success is quite special: here, virtually nothing is impossible. Top-level winter sport, for example, has been firmly established at the heart of the industrial Ruhr area since December 2002, when a biathlon race was staged in the Arena - the Biathlon World Team Challenge - the first event of its kind to take place inside a stadium. The beginning of the 'biathlon age' exceeded all the expectations. A sell-out 35,000 crowd - safety regulations didn't allow for any more - made for a fantastic debut. A year later as many as 50,000 people created an electrifying atmosphere at the event, an increase made possible by the installation of bullet-proof security glass around the shooting area. When the event was held for the fourth time in 2005, some 50,000 biathlon fans flocked to the Arena yet again. This event is one of the most televised and most prestigious events in biathlon. An invitation to this event is a dream of a life time. We were informed of the invitation for one man and one woman to represent the U.S at this event. What makes this event even more exciting for Lanny is the fact that the two competitions that will take place benefit a good shooter (you can't ski your way out of this one). One event is strictly shooting, no skiing. All the athletes stand back from the shooting points and then run up to it and shoot prone and then shoot standing. The person with the most hits and the fastest shooting wins. The next event is what is called a super sprint. A shortened version of our real biathlon races. It favors a good shooter because the ski course is less than a kilometer unlike the regular 2.5 kilometer loop in normal races. Any shooting mistakes are costly on such a short course. The date of the race is December 27th.
Tracy Wins 2 Sprint Races, Lanny Wins Mass Start
Utah Roller Race Results:
Sprint Race 10/16
Rank | Name | Shooting | Total | Time Back |
1 | Barnes T. | 0/0 | 0 | 23.12 |
2 | Studebaker S. | 2/0 | 2 | 24.56 +1.44 |
3 | Cook A. | 0/0 | 0 | 25.11 +1.59 |
4 | Spector L. | 0/2 | 2 | 25.28 +2.16 |
5 | Wygant J. | 1/3 | 4 | 25.31 +2.19 |
6 | Johnson H. | 1/3 | 4 | 25.56 +2.44 |
7 | Chamberlain B. | 2/2 | 4 | 26.11 +2.59 |
7 | Teela D. | 2/1 | 3 | 26.11 +2.59 |
9 | Byrne A. | 0/1 | 1 | 27.05 +3.53 |
10 | Mc Namee H. | 1/0 | 1 | 28.13 +4.01 |
11 | Boutot G. | 2/2 | 4 | 28.56 +4.44 |
12 | Touissant M. | 1/3 | 4 | 28.57 +4.45 |
13 | Dunklee S. | 4/2 | 6 | 29.22 +5.10 |
Sprint Race 10/18
Rank | Name | Shooting | Total | Time Back |
1 | Barnes T. | 1/1 | 2 | 23.41 |
2 | Spector L. | 0/1 | 1 | 24.11 +0.30 |
3 | Chamberlain B. | 1/0 | 1 | 24.41 +1.00 |
4 | Johnson H. | 1/2 | 3 | 24.47 +1.06 |
5 | Wygant J. | 1/2 | 3 | 25.47 +2.06 |
6 | Dunklee | 2/1 | 3 | 25.53 +2.12 |
7 | Studebaker S. | 2/2 | 4 | 26.10 +2.29 |
8 | Cook, A. | 1/1 | 2 | 26.16 +2.35 |
9 | Teela, D. | 1/2 | 3 | 26.17 +2.36 |
10 | Boutot, G. | 0/1 | 1 | 26.47 +3.06 |
11 | Touissant, M. | 1/0 | 1 | 27.24 +3.42 |
12 | Mc Namee | 1/0 | 1 | 27.59 +4.18 |
13 14 | Byrne, A. Mayo, A. | 2/0 3/3 | 2 6 | 28.29 +4.48 31.23 +7.42 |
Mass Start Race 10/19
| Name | shooting | total time |
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| 1 | Lanny Barnes | 0,1,0,0 | 0:36:56 |
| 2 | Denise Teela | 1,0,2,0 | 0:39:21 |
| 3 | Haley Johnson | 0,2,2,2 | 0:39:32 |
| 4 | Laura Spector | 1,2,0,3 | 0:40:41 |
| 5 | Sara Studebaker | 0,2,3,1 | 0:40:55 |
| 6 | Grace Boutot | 0,0,3,1 | 0:41:26 |
| 7 | Beth Ann Chamberlain | 3,1,1,3 | 0:42:10 |
| 8 | Annelise Cook | 0,2,2,2 | 0:43:22 |
| 9 | Hillary Mc Namee | 2,4,2,0 | 0:43:54 |
| 10 | Jen Wygant | 4,0,3,3 | 0:44:14 |
| 11 | Susan Dunklee | 4,4,2,3 | 0:46:58 |
10/12/2008- Heber City, Utah
Winter has struck Heber City a month early. With two snow storms in the last two weeks and temperatures dipping in the the 20's and 30's, we've really started to get excited for the racing season. We started our big training camp on monday (10/03) and have welcomed the oppertunity to train with our teammates from around the US. The first week of camp went well and despite rollerskiing in white-outs and shooting in heavy winds we were able to get a solid week of training in. The US Olympic commitee is having us experiement with supplimental oxygen to see if we can increase the quality and intesity of our interval workouts while at altitude. Training at altitude for long periods of time can potentially decrease your turn over or speed when you return to low altitude. So for now we are carrying around small oxygen tanks while training to see what physiological effects it has on our bodies while training and potentially trying to increase our speed and turnover so the transition to low altitude isn't as dramatic. We have two weeks left in our training camp and although the storms didn't bring enough snow to ski on, we will be doing plenty of rollerskiing. We have three races on rollerskis coming up at the end of the week and we'll keep you posted on how the races go. Check back with us at the end of the week for another update. Have fun!!!
9/29/2008- Heber City, Utah
This time of year there is no better place to train than Heber City, Utah. The temperatures are perfect, cold mornings and warm afternoons. Every day you wake up to beautiful sunny skies. The range and rollerloop at Soldier Hollow (the 2002 Olympic Venue) provide difficult and challenging terrain for rollerskiing and great shooting. Right now the colors are hitting peak, so all the aspen trees are gorgeous. Training is going really well. We just finished our last 2 week block of training before our training camp which will start next week. This week is pretty mellow for training so we'll get in a lot of shooting and some really high intensity combos at the end of the week. Tracy'll spend her free time working on a business she plans to start up sometime in the future and Lanny'll draw and do pictures out of canti and india ink. Our training camp coming up will consist of three weeks of training, one of which will have 3 races which will determine the early world cup team. Lanny is already pre-qualified for the team and there are 2 remaining spots. The races will take place during the 2nd week of the camp and will be 2 sprint races and a mass start. Check back here for results of the races. The rest of the camp will focus on intense competitive shooting and ski specific strength and speed. Gary and Tracy will spend one off day of training hang gliding and maybe we'll spend another day grouse hunting, besides that it'll be quite a lot of training and not much free time. Hope every one is having a great fall!
8-11-07-We flew out east after finishing a tough training block in Salt Lake City, UT. Our focus for this trip was to focus on strength and intensity, something that is harder to accomplish at altitude because of the thinner air. The first week consisted of mostly strength training. Lanny was at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY and Tracy was up in Northern Maine in Fort Kent training at the World Cup venue up there. We met up the next week 3-9th in Burlington, VT. It is home to the Ethan Allen Biathlon range which is also hosts a military base. We had a Sprint race (7.5km with 2 shootings, one prone and one standing) on tuesday followed by a Pursuit Format (not a real pursuit, but individual start and 10 km with prone, prone, standing, standing) on wednesday. Our coaches wanted Tracy to focus on specific training ideas so she didn't compete in the races. Lanny won the first race despite uncharateristic poor shooting. The following day during the Pursuit Format, Lanny also had poor shooting, but was able to finish 3rd even though she roecorded the most shooting penalties out of any woman. On Saturday there was a X-Country race (no shooting, just skiing, below is a picture from the race). Lanny won the race in a battle that was from the start to the finish. A skier from Minnesota, exchanged leads back and forth with Lanny from split times in each of the 4 laps that they completed during the race. In the end Lanny won with 1.7 seconds ahead of the girl. Lanny now heads out to Utah for one week of high volume training and Tracy will train in New Hampsire for the week with her husband and meet back up with Lanny back home in Durango on the 20th of August.
7-22-07- Right now we are in Park City, Utah and have been here for the past two weeks training. It has been a really productive training camp and we have put some solid hours of training behind us. The biathlon venue here boasts some of the best summer biathlon training in the world with 30 targets and over 10 kilometers of paved trails with really tough terrain. The weather has been fantastic, although a little hot, we have yet to see a cloud in a week. We finished the training camp with a timed trial (practice race). The race consisted of 7.5 kilometers of skiing and 2 stages of shooting, one prone, one standing and penalty loops for any missed targets. Lanny started a minute ahead of Tracy and started as she described “a bit too fast”, none-the-less she came flying into the range for her first shooting and quickly hit all her targets. Tracy paced herself well, but had one miss in prone putting her a bit behind Lanny. Lanny skied another fast loop on her 2nd time around the track and came in at blazing speeds to shoot standing. She was a bit shaky after such a hard effort that she missed 2 targets opening the door for Tracy. Tracy skied into the range knowing a clean (hitting all her targets) would put her out in front of Lanny, however low and behold she missed her first target, but quickly hit the next 4. This put Lanny and Tracy about neck and neck on the last loop. Lanny started a minute ahead of Tracy so it was tough to tell who was in the lead. Tracy would have to finish less than a minute behind Lanny to beat her. They both skied an amazingly hard last loop (both recording a record high max heart rate-showing their effort), and finished strong. When the times came out Lanny had a time of 20:02:03 and Tracy’s time was 20:02:03. They had tied for first in the exact second. Considering they didn’t ski the race together and they missed targets in different stages a tie should have been unheard of. They’ve been known to tie before, but haven’t done so in several years. It definitely made for an exciting race. We now head to Maine for camp out east. We’ll spend time working on speed and strength at low altitude in Maine, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. There will be another series of races in Vermont and we’ll definitely let you know the results.
6-24-07- We are back in Durango after a 2 week training camp in Lake Placid, NY. It's nice to be back in the mountains. Training camp went really well. The main focus was volume, although we were able to do some really important interval workouts rollerskiing on the treadmill.
Announcements
Tracy & Gary Married May 23rd, 2008
Gary Colliander (Right)
Tracy's Fiancée
Tracy & Gary at the Reception
The Wedding Party (Left to Right)
Piotr Bednardski, Kenyatta Bolden (best man), Gary (groom), Grant Ernhart
Katy Demong, Emilia Demarchis, Lanny (maid of honor), Tracy (bride), Chrisite Barnes (maid of honor), Morgan Wilson, BethAnne Chamberlain
The Bike Racing Team
We were scheduled to race in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic the day after the wedding, but the race was canceled due to snow. Lanny made t-shirts for all the bridesmaids who were riding in the race and wrote "here comes the bride" on the back of the t-shirts. Tracy wore a bridal jersey and Gary had a tuxedo jersey. Gary and Tracy were going to drag cans across the finish line hooked to their bikes with a sign that said just married.