http://team.motionbased.com/blog Tracking our World of Endurance Sports Wed, 07 May 2008 02:56:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Car packed - bikes/friends loaded - sunny weekend promised. All the reasons we needed to escape south to warmer climes again as snow flurries blasted through Bend, OR. The Spring Thaw Mountain Bike Race promised an exciting change from last year as the course was updated to avoid the long, ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2008/05/06/Spring Thaw MTB / Table Rock Road Race/ The Mudslinger was my introduction to Oregon XC racing ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2008/04/22/Mud Racing/ On June 11, 2007, the 45th anniversary of the infamous Anglin Brothers / Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz, three men swam from Alcatraz for the 500th time - without wetsuits – each! Steve Hurwitz, Pedro Ordenes and I, Gary Emich – MB Team’s "token swimmer" - hit the ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2008/02/28/45th anniversary/ Day 1: brain is dead so this will be brief. 3am wakeup/breakfast, rollout at 5am in 80deg, 100% humidity. Into the slickest, snottiest, reddest mud for hours of hike-a-bike climbing out of the coast. Evil. Blew out my rear tire at about mile 20 and had to Clif wrapper the gash ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/11/28/07-la-ruta-de-los-conquistadores/ A while back we told you about Mark Weir's pump track and talked about the peacocks. Today we're talking deer, and it looks like they aren't getting squeezed out after all. Watch the below video to see Old Blue throw-down and claim this turf rights. Read Bucks Gone Wild at ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/11/19/fighting-on-the-pump-track/ With the cycling season wrapping up at the end of September, I was looking forward to a little time off the bike, as I was my wedding and of course my honeymoon. For our honeymoon Amy and I wanted some adventure mixed in with relaxation so we chose a ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/10/15/kilimanjaro-summit/ For the second consecutive year, I secured the Oregon State Mountain Bike Hillclimb Championships. You may remember that I won the XC championship in May and also was dual champion in 2006. Last year I won the same race (4800 vertical feet) in a record time on my singlespeed. This ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/10/04/oregon-state-mountain-bike-hillclimb-championships/ [RACE REPORT] This year's Mt Tam Triple Crown Hill Climb was the inaugural and included a small field of local riders and runners. The event comprised 3 stages over 3 days over Labor Day weekend 2007. And each stage started in Mill Valley and end at the top ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/09/18/mt-tam-triple-crown-hill-climb/ The Steinbeck Crit course is D-shaped with two long straight-aways, and a tough cross wind on the back straight. The race was rather short at only 60 minutes, and the attacks started on the first lap. Local professional Eric Wohlberg must have attacked half a dozen times before ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/09/17/the-steinbeck-country-oldtown-criterium/ So we all got out to Vermont for Norba National Championships. Dave with some sort of lung infection, and me with a battered moral from Downieville - looking at a forecast of rain for the entire week of racing. Being sick, Dave didn't do so well - but ... http://team.motionbased.com/blog/2007/08/26/norba-nationals/