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The Seder-Skier Podcast

Ryan Sederquist

The original, unique, engaging cross country ski podcast. We ask tough questions to elite athletes, investigate scientific research, and occasionally venture off to talk about the broader intersection of sports and culture as well.

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  • 24 episodes
  • Avg 1 hr 12 min
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  • August 31 · 1 hr 2 min

    NCAA/EISA previews: UNH head coach Shane MacDowell joins!

    "90 Days Til Snow' Documentary UNH home page We chat with Coach MacDowell about how his stops at Boulder Nordic Sport, Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, Northern Michigan, NYSEF and elsewhere have impacted the program he's building at the University of New Hampshire. We deep-dive last season — which included 2 All American performances at nationals — and look ahead to the next. Support the Seder-Skier by clicking HERE

  • August 24 · 1 hr 28 min

    Vail Recreation District race director Wyatt Smith joins!

    Fresh off hosting a superb 50th-annual Vail Hill Climb, we sit down with Wyatt Smith to hear how he ended up in his role at the VRD, his love-hate relationship with Nordic skiing, and what dream-events he's cookin' up for the future!

  • July 17 · 1 hr 12 min

    Vail Hill Climb 50th interview series: Greg Birk

    Vail Daily feature click HERE If you ask any of Greg Birk’s friends, they’ll probably say something similar: The man simply loves running. “More than anyone else I’ve ever met,” stated Wyatt Smith. The Vail Recreation District race director admitted the Vail Hill Climb’s 50th anniversary wouldn’t have been acknowledged if not for Birk. “There was a period where both the recreation district and newspapers got confused with the anniversary,” Smith continued. “Identifying that this year is the 50th wouldn’t be possible without his love of this race.” “No one loves the hill climb more than Greg Birk does,” added longtime Eagle County resident Brendan White, one of several athletes who migrated to the mountains from the Midwest because of Birk. “Certainly no one has come close to traveling as many miles each year to run it.” Whether he was living in Breckenridge, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas or Switzerland, Birk almost always found a way back to Vail for the iconic uphill. Along the way, he’s collected all of the shirts between 1991 and 2026 and several from prior editions, too. All are currently on display as part of a hill climb exhibit running the next couple of weeks at the Colorado Snowsports Museum. Birk’s obsession with the race — and running in general — is directly linked to his appreciation for what it’s taught him and where it’s brought him.

  • July 10 · 1 hr 17 min

    NCAA/EISA nordic ski previews: University of Vermont Patrick Weaver joins!!

    Support the Seder-Skier OR join GripWax Nation for free! by clicking HERE From the UVM website: Patrick Weaver, a two-time U.S. National Champion in cross-country skiing, was named head Nordic coach at the University of Vermont in May of 2010. Prior to being named head coach, Weaver spent three seasons as an assistant Nordic coach with the Catamounts. In 2012, Weaver helped Vermont win its sixth NCAA National Championship in program history in Bozeman, Montana. The Catamounts won by a record-breaking 832 points and outdistanced Utah by a record 161 points. Nordic skier Amy Glen won the NCAA individual title in the 15K classic race. Glen took the race by two inches in a photo-finish to earn her first career collegiate victory. In 2011, his first season at the helm of the UVM Nordic team, Weaver was named the EISA Coach of the Year. He guided the Catamounts to a dominating performance on the EISA Circuit. Vermont won five of six carnivals on the EISA Circuit that season, including earning its 31st EISA Championship. UVM posted 1,000-plus points four times on the EISA Circuit and averaged 991.7 points per meet, winning by an average of 160.5 points in its five carnival victories.

  • June 22 · 42 min

    BREAKING: ARMAGEDDON! The Nordic Ski Sky Is Falling!

    Skiandsnowboard.live? Gone. OutsideTV contracts? Gone. COOP? Gone. Diggins? Gone. Brennan? Retired, sort of. Ogden? Gone, for now. NordicInsights? Gone, kind of. Fischer-sponsored athletes? Gone. It's all over folks. It's all over. Or is it?

  • May 11 · 1 hr 31 min

    2022 Olympian Jake Brown shares his epic journey from DIII runner to Team USA biathlete

    You know I like a good ski story. Today's guest has one of the best. Jake Brown never made it to junior nationals and assumed he wouldn't pursue sports in college. Instead, he wound up being a DI, DII and DIII athlete, leading St. Olaf to a national title in cross-country and emerging as an All-American as a super-senior at Northern Michigan. Along the way, he discovered biathlon — a sport which brought him around the world over the course of successful decade-plus pro career. Brown represented Team USA at 5 world championships and an Olympics. He retired after this season, but stumbled upon the Seder-Skier Podcast before it started.

  • April 27 · 1 hr 48 min

    Seder-Skier solo SUPERSHOW!

    There is nothing I could write here to convince you to listen to this entire show, but I promise at some point, you will laugh at something.

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