Drew Goldsack

Our final dryland camp of the year is under way in Mammoth Lakes, California. Mammoth is a grueling three week camp spent living and training at high altitude. This is the fifth year in Mammoth for us and this year the Canadian team has been joined by Swedish sprint star Peter Larsson who has been [...]

October 2, 2009 (Mammoth, CA) – The Canadian XC Ski Team is completing their first week of a 3-week high altitude training camp in Mammoth, California. So far the training has been outstanding, we’re getting some great exposure to altitude living at around 2600m and training at over 3,000m! World Cup sprint star and the “King of Duesseldorf”, Peter Larsson, from Sweden, has also joined the Canadian Team for the camp. Check out this short video update…
-Drew

With jet lag and the long travel behind us, the team settled into our regular camp routine…training and lots of it! The only change from our ordinary camp environment would be the addition of a few races as part of the New Zealand Winter games. The races were by no means a focus for the [...]

August 28, 2009 – Last week the team and I departed for our biggest and possibly most important camp of the season; three weeks of training on snow in New Zealand. The trip to New Zealand is not a short one by any means…it’s approximately 17 hours total flying time from Calgary to Queenstown and [...]

August 15, 2009 – Wow, it’s been quite a while since my last update but to be honest it was a pretty slow spring/summer of training for me so there hasn’t been a whole lot to report on. The majority of my spring was spent recovering from surgery on my left ankle/foot (see my previous [...]

March 1, 2009 (Canmore, AB) – Next week I will be going under the knife to fix what has turned out to be the most serious injury of my career. A lot has changed since my last Skier Diary report. In my last report I was optimistic that one final cortisone injection was the best [...]

January 24, 2009 (Canmore, AB) – The week of the Whistler World Cups was both the most exciting and busiest of the winter for me, though that’s not saying much. I’ve been nursing my foot injury since the start of the race season and things have been slow to say the least. In contrast with [...]

December 18, 2008 (Canmore, AB) – Two weeks ago today my flight for Europe departed, unfortunately I wasn’t on it. I was scheduled to join the rest of the Canadian World Cup XC Ski team in La Clusaz for the relay, then race Davos and Dusseldorf before returning home in time for Christmas. Instead I’ve [...]

October 10, 2008 – I’m looking forward to starting up regular blog-type entries for the coming season and hope to have frequent updates as I travel, train and race around the world. I also feel that I should start with a disclaimer: I’m not an English major and my high school teacher probably wondered if [...]