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Team Seagate, finished the Orion Health GODZone Adventure six day race in a time of three days,14 hours and 55 minutes (86.55mins)!
GODZone Adventure Race Update
Amazing work guys! - 2 days, nearly 3 hours into the GODZone race and team R&R Sport has completed a 15km sea kayak, 49km road bike, 36 km whitewater canoe, 54km bush trek, 81km mountain bike ride and are currently in stage 6 working through the 48km mountain trek through the Eyre mountains, holding onto 4th place! Incredible to follow!
Oceania Champs, Rotorua
The Oceania Champsionships. The only chance for riders to claim some decent UCI points on NZ soil was held in Rotorua last weekend in the infamous Redwoods forest.
Final step down, race run. Photo: Mad Max PhotographyRotorua has always been an odd one for me. I love riding there (who doesnt?) but I never seem to do very well, always getting outclassed by the North Island riders who get alot of riding done there during the year. I wanted to turn that around this year so made it a goal to do well at this race and with the help of trainer Magooter Sims (MS training), I was set to do so.
Motatapu Xterra Triathlon 10th March 2012, great course and good challenging times, The New Giant XTC0 29er got a great workout! If you have a spare minute to fill in check out the wee photo show from some bits of my day here..
Snow Zone Report from Duncan Campbell
Hi its been a while - been pretty busy training and competing in the Northern Hemisphere USASA Comps. Crashed out bad in my second BX race so I thought I would be lucky to hold on to my Rocky Mountain Regional Championship Title but stoked to report, out of the other three races in the season I managed 2 gold and a silver. So with the Regional Youth Title I automatically qualify for the Nationals in BX, will have to wait to see the National List for SL, GS and HP.
Snow hasn’t been as great as last season but enough to get out and keep training, only thing I don’t really like is the super high winds that have been hitting the Rockies in the last week.
All the other R&R athletes look like they are doing really well so hope the rest of summer is great.
Coast to Coast 2012 Multisport World Championship - Richard Ussher
It is always a rather nervous time heading into Coast to Coast, reports abound in the media of just how great everyone else is going and often about how much better other peoples chances of winning should be.
For Elina and I this year we’d had the luxury of no race in Abu Dhabi before hand so a few extra weeks in which to refresh and start a proper build up
The start of the race is always chaos starting in the dark on Kumara beach and right from the gun the pace was on. Braden Currie pushed the pace and instead of the usual line of competitors for the first time we actually ended up with a small break on the run. After a hurried transition onto the bike we set off at top speed. We had a small group of 6 athletes formed already and Dougal Allen was especially keen to push on as James Coubrough was missing from the 6 despite being one of the first to the bikes. He’d also made it clear he wanted to try and take the sting out of the quicker runners legs and despite some of those runners forming part of our pack everyone was happy enough to roll through at a good tempo.
Downhill National Champs, Nelson - James Rennie
Nelson played host to the 2012 Downhill National Championships and provided a course to separate the men from the boys.
With two days of practice on offer I decided to take it easy for the first day of runs. The track was on the infamous Fringe Hill and provided something for everyone. It started off with a tight tree section, this section tested riders ability to carry speed and rewarded riders for being smooth and knowing their lines. It the opened up into a fast fire road section before dropping into some steep, soft turns into the finish. All in all, the track was long, dry, rough and fast!
