Bend Sustainability Fund announces first 8 grant recipients, totaling more than $837K ktvz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktvz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bend Endurance Academy outlines summer Nordic training programs
Bend Endurance Academy
Summer Nordic training
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) College Nordic athletes are invited to immerse yourself in one of the premier summer training grounds in the United States with the Bend Endurance Academy.
Bend, Oregon has long been known to be an ideal training area for the serious Nordic skier and we’re looking forward to a productive start of your annual training year.
The Bend Endurance Academy aims to create a summer training program that bridges the gap between seasons for college athletes while delivering high quality, consistent training.
Bend Endurance Academy announces 8th annual Bend Bike Swap ktvz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktvz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bend Endurance Academy leader wants all kids to be able to enjoy outdoor sports
(Update: Adding video, comments from Rougeux, another coach, young participant) I like how it makes you feel you feel free
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Climbing Smith Rock, skiing at Mt. Bachelor and biking down the Crooked River Canyon are all activities that make Central Oregon unique.
Mike Rougeux, named last summer as the new executive director of Bend Endurance Academy, wants sports like these to be available to everyone. Kids that maybe, they don t have a passion. They ve tried sports and I kind of like it but that s not really my thing, Rougeux said Wednesday.
Nordic skiing booms in Oregon
Sno-parks in Bend area find more people enjoying cross-country trails By Mark Morical, The Bulletin (Bend, Ore.)
Published: December 31, 2020, 8:40pm
Share: Skiers make their way out onto the trails at Meissner Sno-park west of Bend, Ore. (ryan brennecke/The Bulletin/TNS)
BEND, Ore. Mike Schindler assumed it would take a couple weeks to sell out his seasonlong nordic ski gear rental fleet.
But the co-owner at Bend’s Sunnyside Sports sold out in less than eight hours one day in early November.
“We made it reasonable pricing and sent out an email,” Schindler said. “It was probably 100-plus setups. We had people lining up. That was the real lever of like, oh, wow, there’s a lot of people who are wanting to do this. It was crazy how many people came in and how many people took advantage of that.”