Follow this year’s Iditarod Trail Invitational on the ITI Facebook page, Twitter, and of course Trackleaders! A cellphone will be provided in McGrath for finishers who wish to call in! It’s hard to get coverage during the race but hopefully we hear from racers in McGrath!
Greg Fedrickson called in from checkpoint 1, or his last.
Greg Fedrickson called in from near Green Swamp!
From the Trans North Georgia (TNGA) Facebook Page:
OK, Gang here is the official start list
John Dove and Jeremy Ordaz are the latest additions from the wait list
If you are on the below list and need a SPOT (all riders are required to have a SPOT to be registered with track leaders) give me a shout. If you have your own SPOT, I will provide a link to the event to register it with trackleaders
TNGA 2013 Registered Start List
1 Aaron Matthys
2 John Dove
3 Brad Kee Continue reading
The Syllamo’s Revenge results are in! Congrats to Drew Edsall for taking the Men’s Open class, Cheryl Sornson for taking the Women’s Open class, Gerry Pflug took Single Speed, and Chris Irving took Master’s! For Cheryl, this makes 4 straight wins in the National Ultra-Endurance series!
Next up is the The Mohican 100 coming up June 1st!
The National Ultra-Endurance Series Wildcat 100 is this weekend in Rosendale, NY! The race kicks off at 6:45am on May 11th. This is the closest 100mi race to New York City and will take racers through some of New York’s best mountain biking and scenic views like Minnewaska State Park Preserve and Mohonk Preserve. Details here!
From the TSEpic Facebook page:
HEADS UP! Registration for 2013 TSEpic will be closing in just two days. Get registered before midnight on May 10 for the best week of your life!
What is the Trans-Sylvania Mountain Bike Epic? It’s a 7 day stage race in Pennsylvania based out of Seven Mountains Boy Scout Campground. This year’s race will be held May 26-June 1, 2013!
Get details here and registration information here.
Red Bull Rusch Hour Kokopelli Trail saw Rebecca Rusch smash the women’s record on the route at 13:32:46! Congrats to Rebecca! Get the details here! And Rich Wince took the Trans-Iowa V9! Catch Guitar Ted’s call on Mountain Bike Radio here! Eddie O’Dea set the course record at the Stagecoach 400! In fact, the top three finishers Eddie, Guy Sutton, and JayP all finished in record time! Christian Tanguy took the Open Men’s class in the NUE Cohutta 100! Aaron Gulley took the 300mi leg of the Arizona Trail Race and took the men’s record at 2:03:59 Eszter Horanyi bested the women’t record by 15 hours at 2:13:15, and was third overall!
Update: Oops! Gotta mention the Whiskey 50! Geoff Kabush took first and Jeremiah Bishop took second! Congrats!
Mountain Bike Radio will have race coverage this weekend for the Trans-Iowa and Stagecoach 400. Tune in and get racer calls.
Trans Iowa Radio – April 26-28
Friday through Sunday Guitar Ted will be calling in with updates:
Listen to race updates here: Trans Iowa Radio.
Stagecoach 400 April 26-31
Stagecoach Radio Racer Updates
Also keep in mind the NUE Cohutta 100 starts tomorrow!
The Munda Biddi Trail, the world’s longest continuous bike trail, will open in Western Australia this month. The Welldrill Munda Biddi Epic 1000 will kick off the opening of the trail with twenty-six cyclists starting in Albany on April 7 and finishing in Mundaring on April 28.
“Cyclists on the Epic will become the first Munda Biddi Trail Blazers and the first people in the world to ride the full length of the iconic trail, which means ‘path through the forest’ in Noongar Aboriginal language.”
It sounds like a time trial is in order!
