Entries Tagged as ‘races’

July 31, 2009

Primal Quest Badlands – Team Nike OUT

Wow.
I was shocked to see this headline on the official blog:
Robyn Benincasa and Team Nike Out of Primal Quest Badlands

… the withdrawl of defending PQ champs Nike. Last week, team captain Mike Kloser suffered a crash while mountain biking, which left him with a broken collarbone, a collapsed lung, and five broken [...]

June 24, 2009

introducing Greg Kolodziejzyk

Greg is a fast twitch, anaerobic gymnast … who somehow evolved to become an endurance sport Adventure athlete.
Just like many of us on this team.
Greg has several endurance sport websites. A good start is …

Adventures of Greg
You’ll see he has done many Ironman events, including Coeur d’Alene. Has world records for human powered [...]

June 22, 2009

toughest 100mi race in the world?

Have you heard of The Barkley Marathons?
… The Barkley Marathons is actually two races run on the same course, a 100 Mile Run and a 60 Mile Fun Run. It is held annually in Frozen Head State Park near Wartburg, Tennessee sometime in late March or early April.
The course itself, which has changed distance, [...]

April 22, 2009

I’ve decided that it MAY be possible to overdo it…

Hi, everyone!!
I hope everyone is enjoying the fact that Spring has finally (cross your fingers!) sprung, and is getting in some good training… we certainly have over the past 10 days or so!
Backing up a week and a half to Friday April 10, I was out with Keith doing some training… first, a bit of [...]

April 1, 2009

A great training weekend!

Well, my post is going to be upstaged a bit, since Jeni’s race certainly takes precedence, but a week earlier, we got together for one of our best training day(s) we’ve had in a while…
Friday morning, J and I left for the drive to Missoula, complete with inflatable kayak in the back of her baby [...]

March 5, 2009

Oh, where oh where have we been?

Hi, Everyone!
I am SO sorry for taking so long in between posts… this past month has been on of the busiest on record, with Great West Gymfest and getting everything in gear for Adventure Sports Week 2009, which is now onlu 91 days away!! Yikes!
First off, just to ease Thomas’ concern, my training has seldom [...]

January 30, 2009

Ironman Calgary, Aug 2, 2009

World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) announces an addition to the global Ironman 70.3 Event Series, Ironman 70.3 Calgary. This inaugural event will take place on August 2, 2009. Ironman 70.3 Calgary will offer 40 qualifying slots to the 2009 Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3. …

official website

January 6, 2009

Adlard wins 543mi Ultramarathon

Oops.
Seems it was a 61 Year-Old Farmer, not Dave.

In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61 year-old farmer, showed up to race Australia’s toughest endurance race – 543.7 miles from Sydney to Melbourne – in overalls and work boots. …
Not only did he run it, but he won it and set a new record for [...]

December 9, 2008

Sheena’s first Marathon

In California last weekend.
I can neither confirm not deny whether or not she won her division.

December 5, 2008

Talking to the Legends about Adventure Week 2009!

For someone who is a “people person,” today was a pretty good day from the Adventure Celebrity point of view…
As you probably know, we have been working pretty hard on getting Adventure Week 2009 set up, and a major part of that is getting some of the best teams and racers in the world to [...]