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Skieologians: How America won all that gold (in 2030)
A call back to their plundering of the 2018 Olympics, three “architects of Norway’s sport system” shared key ideas for nationwide sport development in an Aspen Institute article titled, “How Norway won all that gold (again).” The Beijing Games saw Norwegian winter athletes win a record 16 gold medals. As Aspen Institute editor Tom Farrey […]
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Press Release: Sederquist will attempt 200k at 10,500 feet
Leadville, CO – The team captain of Seder-Skier.com Racing Project will attempt to ski 200k in a 24-hour period at the Equinox Challenge at Mount Massive Golf Course March 19-20. “Not sure if this is a good idea,” Ryan Sederquist said in a hastily arranged press conference via Zoom byway of Seder-Skier.com’s new interim promotional […]
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Something feels off
Something still feels off about the International Ski Federation’s decision to ban Russian athletes from the remaining 2021-2022 competitions because of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. War is awful, so obviously that part is “off,” but it’s not what I’m getting at. After an intense board meeting and external pressure from various organizations, including the […]
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sederskier sprinter stories: Leadville loppet and pepsi challenge
Leadville Loppet – 42K Classic Result: 2:18:33, 1st place After some initial hesitancy, I elected to register for the hometown race, and I’m happy that I did. My logic was three-fold. First, this is really the quintessential Ryan Sederquist race. Gradual, unceasing railroad grade climbs with placid, working downhills. At 10,000 feet and with almost […]
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Fracture Friday: Tom and Kristi’s matching shoulder Slings
Considering the sheer volume of time I spend skiing, plus additional months ripping through neighborhoods on brakeless rollerskis or road and mountain biking on precarious trails, it’s a miracle I’ve never broken a bone in my 30 years. Throw in my decades-long basketball career and it becomes all the more amazing. Perhaps one reason for […]
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Skieologians: The Applied sport theology column
a word on Wood skis…. A wise person once told me, “You can never have too many skis.” Lately, I’ve been joyfully strolling through Ryan Rodger’s 2021 tale of Scandinavian influence on Minnesota and Wisconsin’s nordic ski history, Winter’s Children. As he traces the history of the sport where I grew up and introduces iconic […]
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Sederskier sprinter stories
Enoch rides again to kick off loppet season Enoch, the name of the Seder-Skier.com sprinter van, showed toughness in the month of January. We started with an epic journey along the million-dollar highway, an impromptu drive on the most dangerous road in America, then took an even more impromptu 1,100 mile trip to Wisconsin and […]
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Shooting Star: The story of Marco Siffredi, the snowboarder who disappeared on Everest, is one we all should know
“If you don’t know who Marco Siffredi is, you’re not alone,” writes a 2021 Outside magazine book review on See You Tomorrow, the biography of a big mountain prodigy who picked up snowboarding at 16, road the north face of the Aiguille du Midi a year later, and eventually claimed the first descent of Everest […]
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Gulini’s Games
The peaceful, metronomic crunch of snow underneath an ascending splitboard provided an appropriate bass line for the melody of musings from the voice on the other end of the phone. “We got a few inches overnight, so we figured we’d stretch our legs,” U.S. snowboardcross athlete Faye Gulini shared. Climbing from the backporch up Parley’s […]
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Skieologians: The sport theology column
What really draws us to the Olympics are the shared human experiences One week into the Games, this skieologian’s space has been primarily dedicated to deeper dives into some of the darker aspects of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. While issues of human rights certainly deserve our attention, it occurred to me that no matter how […]
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