Now is the weekend in Kuusamo over! The Internet connection was bad because that I havent update until now. It was a very exciting weekend for us waxers. On Saturday, it was wet and klister conditions and most exciting it was on Sunday when the track was frozen when until an hour before the ladies it began to rain a bit which made the tracks completely icy, which in turn meant that it was a bit tricky to find the right kickwax. Now we look forward to Dusseldorf where we go on Thursday.
Now everything packed and ready again. Today, the truck started to roll to Kuusamo, it will arrive there early on Thursday morning. Last night’s we loaded and made a quick repair on the Berners Scania workshop. Thus, it is classic sprint and a classic distance race on the program.It can be a great weekend again. The weather, however, seems to be a bit tricky it will be a lot of work for us. But we will be on site in Kuusamo pretty early tomorrow so we have time to make the most prepared for Friday’s test.
/Anders Niemi
Wow what a weekend! Now we are back home in Sweden after the first World Cup weekend in Beitostolen. The weather was quite variable over the weekend, on Friday it rained, on Saturday it was sunny on Sunday it was snowing a lot. Felt like we succeeded with the ski selections and with the waxing . On Sunday, it was for the classic distances no bigger problems to find the kick. However, it was not nowax conditions. Now it is just to charge the batteries forward to next weekend. Most of us waxers are flying from Östersund directly to Kuusamo in the NextJet-plane – Swedish skiforce Nr 1.
/Anders Niemi
We are now in place in Beitostolen. Today we tested a lot of skis for tomorrow. It has also been tested a lot of waxes. Today, it has been warm weather and some rain this evening. Tomorrow the World Cup starts with 10/15km. Position on the team looks good. Now is the time to sleep so we’re ready for tomorrow.
Now we have packed down the most of things we need for the weekend, the truck has already in the afternoon start rolling from Östersund to Beitostolen. It’s Mats and Stefan, who had the great honor to travel with the truck. The rest of us have last day vacant home which is nice. It will be very exciting to launch again, it’s the competitions you been waiting for all summer! Looks like on Saturday could be some plus degrees and on Sunday some minus degrees and snowfall, can thus be no-wax conditions for the relay so we have to be ready with the special no-wax skis. The races will be broadcast on national television so it’s just that you are benches in front of TV `s this weekend, think we already can see some really good results from the Swedish athletes. Here we go!
Now it’s just a few days until we go to Beitostölen. This weekend, the Swedish premiere have been completed up in Bruksvallarna. Looks like we have a lot of skiers showing good shape. During the last days we make the final preparation before we travel to Beito, little details on the truck to fix and some skis to be prepared a little extra.
When you prepared your skis, mix both soft and hard parafin for best results! It provides a good base for your race waxes!
Now we have gone home from Bruksvallarna, we’ve got a lot of testing, conditions on Kläppen has been fantastic for skitesting. Feels like we’ve had some skipairs who can come in use during the winter. We also performed some other tests with very successful results. Now we can recharge the batteries before we go next week to Beitostolen. The Sprinters had a race yesterday where we were with our actives and tested skis.
When we’re on the track, we have a waist bag with a lot of waxes in. And we get a list with all the waxes that are to be tested.
Today we have tested many skis in the morning. In the afternoon we prepared skis to carry out for further tests tomorrow in the mountains.
Yesterday the skiers had a training competition, we had plus 3 degrees thereby it was really klister conditions. We waxed up 2par of skis to the athletes that they had to try before start. Looks like we’ve found some really good new klister skis for skiers.
Today, it has been a little rest today, there have falling some wetsnow today, which meant that we could try a bit nowax skis, now in the evening, we have been with the athletes and played bowling. There where few really good results. Tomorrow is a training race in classic style, can be a bit difficult to find a good gripwax due to the weather.
/Anders Niemi
Another day at the camp over, now we have tested a lot of skis and some gripwax. Conditions have been a bit tricky when moisture from the man made snow make the classic track icy. Now it’s snowing a lot here, can be nowax conditions tomorrow again. Tomorrow is rest day for the skiers, but we will test a bit anyway.
/Anders Niemi
Today we have had time to test a lot of skis. Conditions for testing are great up here, today it has snowed a bit the whole time and been around -3. Tomorrow we will test more, of course!
Cold weather today, when we test skis the skiers may wax there training skis by themselves. Tomorrow the athletes run a competitive like training, we will be with and try a little extra with the athletes.
/Anders Niemi
We are now in place in Bruksvallarna. The weather today has been a bit tricky with little snowfall and around 0 degrees. So this day has a lot of the skiers taken the opportunity to test the nowax ski.
/Anders Niemi
Now everything is packed just sit in the car and go up to Bruksvallarna in a few hours. All in the team will be gathering there for dinner. This evening, we may start to make preparation a bit in the truck, but tomorrow we will start the hard work.
/Anders Niemi
To succeed with a klister waxing can sometimes be a bit tricky, but try and mix two different klister so you might do better!
/Anders Niemi
