This is part one of a series on female athlete specific physiology and sports nutrition. In this episode, we speak to professional runner and Registered Dietician Maddie Alm.

Former U.S. and Canadian National Ski Team Coach Marty Hall speaks to us about the first European glacier camps for North Americans.

An interview with Dutch Simpson and Nick Kalisz, the filmmakers behind Lhotse. The film documents the first ski descent of the Lhotse Couloir.

U.S. Biathlete Kelsey Dickinson interviews new biathlete, Craig Wiggers. Wiggers recently wrote a book titled "Nordic Warrior? A Midlife Crisis in Biathlon".

Former skier Noah Hoffman interviews track and field icon, Dr. Edwin Moses. For decades Moses has been a voice for anti-doping reforms and equity in sport.

In this conversation, Fields shares a deeper look into his FKT attempts and discusses his perspective on the likely COVID-induced increase in use seen in the White Mountains (and many other mountain regions) this summer. He also talks about his goals for the seasons ahead.

With a kowtow to Zach Caldwell and Noah Hoffman, we are repurposing their recent video conversation about anti-doping reform. Here, you'll find just the audio and solid details about the doping policy in the U.S. and abroad. Think of this as an advanced level back-to-school (remote learning) opportunity to up your game when discussing anti-doping affairs.

Solid as a rock, our conversation with polyglot and world-class biathlete Clare Egan.

In this episode of Nordic Nation, we speak all things trail design with John Morton. Based in Vermont, and global in perspective, Morton provides insights into the literal ups and downs of trail design and how full-blown nordic centers and small scale trails can bring a modern vibe to an old-school sport. He runs Morton Trails locally but has a global reach with projects based in China.

While Great Britain's Andrew Musgrave relaxes lakeside in Trondheim, we catch up on life, recovery, and the new season ahead.

FasterSkier connects with two-time Olympian and long-time US Ski Team Member Noah Hoffman, who has become involved with USADA’s antidoping education program since retiring from skiing. Hoffman also recently wrapped up his second year at Brown University and we discuss his academic interests and the experience of being a college student during the COVID shutdown.

We discuss the happenings around the U.S. Cross-Country Ski Team with Matt Whitcomb. He was recently announced as the new head coach of the team.

In this episode, we chat with the author of Running to the Edge, Matt Futterman. The book, rendered down to its basics, is a meditation on Bob Larsen, a running coach Futterman asserts resurrected U.S. distance running. Futterman is the Deputy Sports Editor at The New York Times, a marathon runner, and a fan of cross-country skiing.

In this episode, Brooks unpacks the many sources of grief and anxiety that people are facing and expands on the steps she recommends to identify and manage the challenges of the times. She discusses the idea of naming and acknowledging feelings to help release energy around them and shares a practice she uses with her clients using painted rocks labeled with specific emotions.

The Craftsbury Outdoor Center (COC) in Vermont led the way last fall with a new waxing policy limiting the use of fluorinated waxes. Ollie Burruss, the cross-country race director at the COC discussed the policy and how it played out this winter.

Last week, which seems like last year in this news cycle, Craftsbury Green Racing Project's Ben Lustgarten announced his retirement. Lustgarten (27) discusses his time in the sport and the details of why he decided to step away from full-time training.

We spend some time conversing with elite skiers, dads, husbands, full-time-job-havers, Brian Gregg and Matt Liebsch. The two have become training partners and best friends while both live in the Minneapolis region. The bottom line in this episode: we hear from two individuals who make each other better on and off the ski tracks.

In this episode, hosted by FasterSkier contributor Rachel Perkins, we dive into the issue of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). This condition was formerly known as the female athlete triad, which was described as inadequate energy intake, the loss of menstruation (amenorrhea), and decreased bone mineral density. The name was changed to include males, who are also affected, and to expand beyond the three symptoms originally included. Though not quite the same, the condition is...

We speak to John Munger, Executive Director of the Loppet Foundation in Minneapolis and Garrott Kuzzy, former U.S. Ski Team member who grew up near Wirth Park - the site of this March's World Cup. This will be the first domestic World Cup since 2001. The Loppet Foundation has been the glue keeping all the moving World Cup parts together.

We connect with Norwegian Journalist John Rasmussen and learn about his reporting on fluoro ski wax in Norway.

  Devon Kershaw, for many years, was a go-to on the World Cup for Canada. He won a gold medal at the 2011 World Championship in the team sprint with Alex Harvey and finished second in the World Cup overall in 2012. He is accomplished. He is also a student of the sport. That was evident last season as he helped Eurosport with its television broadcast coverage of the 2019 World Championships. Watching Kershaw provide race previews each day was a highlight. It made sense to ring him up...

In this episode, we speak with now-retired Swedish skier Ida Ingemarsdotter. The thirty-four-year-old Ingemarsdotter became the head coach for the Swedish national development team this fall. She'll be leading a crew of U23 and U20 skiers as they hope to transition to the senior national team.  For many years, Imgemarsdotter was a Swedish World Cup staple. She's a two-time medalist at the Olympics and a down to earth Swede, as we learn about her recent moose hunt in the podcast. Her...

Back in 2015, prior to her first go at a World Championships, Rosie Brennan was asked this: What’s your biggest motivation while racing?.  “I am most motivated by wanting to show that my hard work was worth it, that I did everything I could to go as fast as I could,” Brennan replied at the time. She was twenty six years old then, and now at 30 years old, the Park City native grinds away, still doing the hard work. Brennan, a current member of the U.S. Ski Team's A-Team, has had an...

In this episode, we connect with Max Cobb, the CEO of U.S. Biathlon. He also sits on the International Biathlon Union’s (IBU) Executive Board. When we spoke, he had just returned from the IBU's “historic” Extraordinary Congress which took place from October 18th-20th, in Munich. The IBU has been rocked in the recent past by internal mismanagement and doping scandals. Rather than succumb to the inertia associated with systemic change, the IBU has reset and begun reforming. Part of that...