Threshold

This is your LAST CHANCE to win a FREE pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis, made from recycled plastic bottles. To enter the giveaway, FOLLOW Threshold on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, AND comment on Threshold with Chad Salmela's post on FACEBOOK. Each comment counts as an entry! On this day 20 years ago, Andrea Burke (neé Henkel) won Gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics in an event that her coaches...

Win a FREE pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis, made from recycled plastic bottles. To enter the giveaway, FOLLOW Threshold on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, AND comment on Threshold with Chad Salmela's post on FACEBOOK. Each comment counts as an entry!  After surviving being hit by a car, Hannah Halvorsen overcomes immense odds to earn a spot on the 2022 US Olympic Team. with Guest Hannah Halvorsen...

Win a FREE pair of Salomon S/MAX eSKIN skis, made from recycled plastic bottles. To enter the giveaway, FOLLOW Threshold on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, AND comment on Threshold with Chad Salmela's post on FACEBOOK.  Rosie Brennan has entered 7 World Cup events during the 2021-2022 season and has finished no worse than 8th, including a podium finish in Davos. This clearly sets her up for an exc...

Threshold sits down with double Junior World  Champion and the youngest winner of the American Birkebeiner, Johnny Steel Hagenbuch. We get into the environment and circumstances of Hagenbuch’s development, his part in the young group of American men who shined like no Americans before at the junior level, his college plans, his long-range skiing aspirations, and of course, winning the Birkie...

Olympian Holly Brooks reached the highest level of ski racing, despite, if not in spite of, her circuitous, uncommon route.  We put some Holly into your Holidays with Holly Brooks, from her home in Anchorage. This episode of Threshold is sponsored by SALOMON. Recognizing that the future existence of skiing is directly impacted by climate change, Salomon is confirming that sustainability will...

In 2019 and 2020, team USA won the Men's 4x5km Relay at the Nordic Skiing World Junior Championships for the first and second time ever. Now, those same men, who were all born in the year 2000 occupy half of the US Men's Nordic Ski Team. Not only that, but this season they have quietly been making names for themselves on the World Cup scene. Today on Threshold we talk with these five guys - the Ch...

This episode of Threshold is sponsored by Salomon . Recognizing that the future existence of skiing is directly impacted by climate change, Salomon is confirming that sustainability will be a major aspect of its performance parameters in future winter sports products. The first of those sustainable products is the new S/MAX eSKIN Nordic ski, the company’s first ski constructed with a sustainable m...

This time of year, nearly every year, vaunted biathlon coach, Wolfgang Pichler's long shadow gets cast over the biathlon world. The IBU Biathlon World Cup started last weekend in Oestersund, Sweden, and continues this Thursday through Sunday. Sweden has emerged as one of the strongest biathlon nations though it has not enjoyed wide popularity nor big funding.  It has been a perennial underdog...

With guests Rick Kapala and Reid Lutter Featuring Jessie Diggins, Gus Schumacher, Kikkan Randall, Rosie Brennan, Sophie Caldwell, Hannah Halvorsen, and Matt Whitcomb https://nationalnordicfoundation.org/drive-for-25/ Hosted by Chad Salmela Produced by Chris Parr

Olympian, marathoner, mother, podcast host, TV commentator, and Dr. Pepper pounding superstar Carrie Tollefson joins Threshold to talk about her Olympic history as well as hype us up for the NYC marathon. With guest Carrie Tollefson Hosted by Chad Salmela Produced by Chris Parr

It’s cross country running season on a ski-heavy endurance podcast.   There's no better time and no better guest for Threshold right now than Ben True. In college, Ben was a three sport All-American in cross country, skiing, and track and field. After having some confusion as to what sport to pursue, he landed as a runner... a runner with a clear Olympic trajectory. However, after three...

Motocross to those clueless about the sport, might see it as a fairly sedentary group of people, swilling beer, sitting in lawn chairs, eating BBQ, flipping off the camera--not training their asses off. Sure enough, these guys are training their asses off and John Wessling is the man behind their plans. In fact, he's used many of his ski experiences to develop Motocross racers, and his success is...

You know it, you love it, it gives you goosebumps every time you watch it... Jessie and Kikkan's first ever women's cross country skiing Olympic gold medal was made that much more special by the infamous "HERE COMES DIGGINS" call. But did it help bring American skiing more into the mainstream? And what does the future look like for the broadcasting of American endurance sports as a whole? We talk...

Dr. Stephen Seiler is known for many things in the endurance sport world: His Ted Talk on "How 'normal people' Train like the World's Best," his countless books and articles, his introduction of polarized training, and the staggering Norwegian medal count... just to name a few. Today, however, we get into the person Dr. Stephen Seiler,  his perspective on technology in the endurance world and...

The beer-swilling, Coca-Cola-drinking, taco and McDonald’s cheeseburger-eating women stars of ultramarathons that are beating men at the same distance: Courtney Dauwalter and Brittany Peterson. As The Western States 100 Mile is around the corner, we talk with previous champion, Courtney Dauwalter, and previous runner-up, Brittany Peterson, about what makes an ultramarathoner tick. with Guests Cour...

In the fall of 2020, the University of Minnesota announced that it would be cutting four athletic programs. Perhaps the most prestigious of these programs to be discontinued was Men's Track and Field.  This decision hit particularly close to home for the Hoeft Family. Carson Hoeft, who was an NCAA All-American for the Gophers, and Joelle Hoeft, who is a runner herself and now expert activist...

Behind every  star athlete is a star coach. In this two part series, we ask the same questions to two star coaches. Jessie Diggins' coach, Jason Cork, and Frida Karlsson's coach Per Nilsson. with Guest Per Nilsson Hosted by Chad Salmela Produced by Chris Parr

Behind every  star athlete is a star coach. In this two part series, we ask the same questions to two star coaches. Jessie Diggins' coach, Jason Cork, and Frida Karlsson's coach Per Nilsson. with Guest Jason Cork Hosted by Chad Salmela Produced by Chris Parr

Entering the final stretch of the Men's 50km at the 2021 Cross Country Ski World Championships, Johannes Klaebo of Norway took a wide tangent to overtake Alexander Bolshunov of Russia. The only problem, Bolshunov didn't leave him any room.  This left Klaebo with a disqualification and Bolshunov with a broken pole to get passed down the homestretch for 2nd (after the DQ). The FIS decision to d...

Knut Nystad, the former head of the Norwegian Wax Team, discusses the strange wax conditions at the Cross Country Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, and the effects a fluorocarbon ban would have on the future of ski racing. Fluorocarbon ban conversation starts at 19:30. Guest Knut Nystad, featured in this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/sports/olympics/cross-country-no...

On the verge of the 2021 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, we explore the ascent of the US Cross Country Ski Team through the voice of Head Coach Matt Whitcomb. With excerpts from Sophie Caldwell, Simi Hamilton, Sverre Caldwell and Liz Stephen. Hosted by Chad Salmela With Guest Matt Whitcomb Produced by Chris Parr

It was in Lillehammer in 1996 when the International Biathlon Union (IBU) attempted a new racing format: the Pursuit. The men's race ended in a four-way sprint finish for the victory--perhaps the most thrilling finish in the history of the sport to that time. Eurovision executives ink a four-year TV-rights deal with the International Biathlon Union.  The modern biathlon world cup was born. Th...