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‘Race Updates’Off Road Assault on Mt Mitchell was a blast! Congratulations to: Adam Dewitt: Top 10 finish in SingleSpeed class with a time of 6:59:45!! Incredible! Andy Campbell: Shaved almost a full hour off of his last years effort! Ending time: 9:29:59 Joel Watson: Personal accomplishment of beating his last years time by 3.5 hours! Ending time of 7:49:33 Awesome results guys! Way to represent the LowCountry! All Results here: Joel’s Blog Recap: A few Fat Tire Freaks went up to Davidson to race in the Cowbell Challenge Marathon 2009. Conditions were HOT. All riders did well… Congratulations to Dave Hall on his third place finish in SingleSpeed! Yeah Dave! Joel got 8th in singlespeed… Good work guys! Recap at: Pictures!! 
Singles Night #2 was a blast. Race was cancelled on account of rain, but you could not tell from the racers in attendance…. Bloglinks: Joel’s Recap: Pictures: 
The annual Catawba Riverfront Classic was held at the US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte on June 7th 2009. Riding up from Charleston to represent the Freaks were Brad Phillips and Joel Watson. Congratulations to Brad Phillips for a super-STRONG 2nd place finish with a tree bashing thrown in for an additional challenge. Here is a link to results: Joel’s blog recap at: Give these guys a free beer next time you see them.. Thanks to Robby Bennett for getting Singles Night up n running! If you missed the last one, you need to start planning on attending. It is a quick fun blast! Here is a recap from my blog: Yet another Recap from Joe Pelton’s Blog: Here are updates on some of our locals participating in the many “XC racing” events happening out there… Harbison Race To The River Race#3 in the Southern Classic Series was held on Sunday, April 19, 2009 Brief details of the drag race were that it was fast, furious and fun…Great turnout, great food, prizes and atmosphere… Congratulations to Brad Phillips for his 2nd place finish in Cat 2 Men 30-39 Joel Watson also raced and barely managed to finish the race…looks like maybe his beer and Popeye’s Chicken training diet needs to be reconsidered… Here are updates on some of our locals participating in the many “XC racing” events happening out there… UWHarrie Race#2 in the Southern Classic Series was held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 Brief details of the drag race were that it was muddy and eel-skin slick in all the wrong places… Congratulations to Brad Phillips for his 5th place finish in Cat 2 Men 30-39 Adam DeWitt also raced in the Single-Speed Open category, but was stricken by chronic flat tire syndrome…hang in there Adam! Link to results here: UWHarrie Results Ever have one of those moments where you just wanna ride your bike all day long? I did….it was some fun! I recently made a last minute decision to go down to Florida to ride in the 12 Hours of Santos. Dave Hall from the Trek Bike Shop had mentioned riding along to this event sometime back, but I kept it in the back of my mind since I did not feel ready for a main event so early in the season. I entered the 6 hour event since I had never raced this format before and was curious about the entire endurance race thing in general. Turns out 6 hours was more than enough for me…This was one heck of a fun race! The trail itself was tough and unforgiving. Not a lot of climbing, just harsh rough twisties and fast rolling flats….The Vortex is the place where the pain started and the Twister is the place where you tend to forget about the pain you just endured and just floated along singing a song…until you return to the Vortex again and again for the next 6 hours! There was quite a large turnout, much like a music festival or something…lots of partying going on. Lots of positive attitudes…Lots and Lots of COOL bikes man! Everywhere, bike-porn eyecandy! IT was great! Anyways…the night prior to the event, the weather decided to mess with us by dropping down into the teens…not cool…nasty cold weather on the first night made for tired souls on the morning of the big event…regardless, this is an event everyone must try at least once to really find their tipping point…Santos is a trail system which must be visited just to check it out…it is truly a work of art… so to recap: camping, seemingly endless bike riding, beer, good friends, campfire, more beer and steaks! Along for the ride with Dave were Adam DeWitt and Justin Fisher(who met us there).
Santos Results Posted here: http://www.goneriding.com/2009/12%20hours%20of%20santos/results.htm We all had a great time and I personally plan on attending next year! -joel 
Looks like there is a PROPOSED stage race planned for Mid October by Blue Ridge Adventures… http://www.blueridgeadventures.net/index.html Nearly 200 miles in 4 days! That’s an awful lot of pedaling… start getting ready now folks! Once again another great event….well organized…great people…excellent food! Cyclocross format with multiple laps proved to be a really fun way to race! Thanks to amazing race coordinator, Rebecca, from CycleCenter who had help from her great friends….This race could not have gone as smoothly as it did without her… If you ride Harbison trails often, you should check out Friends of Harbison State Forest …by joining this group, you will have exlusive access to their upcoming nightrides and general information on how you can help Harbison State Forest continue to flourish…. Congratulations to Justin Fisher for placing 1st in Mens EXPERT 19-29 with an insane time of 1:42:??! Congratulations to Joel Watson for placing 3rd in Mens Sport 30+ awesome riding!! |
