Amber on day 5 of Trans Rockies Run. Broken(?) hand, cut knee and “crazy socks.” (and Avia AVI Stoltz trail racing shoes ) Too bad the event was “too short - really got going after 3 days…”
GORE -TEX Trans Rockies run. 6 Days, 120 miles, 25 000ft of climbing, 200 2 person teams. Amber [...]
Yup, I brought the big dog. This is the perfect 29er course- fast, rocky, rooty and technical.
Specialized Epic 29er.
For more on 29ers, visit my my 29er page on Facebook
-Command Post telescopic seat post. (notice dropped seat height for the technical terrain) I wrote about the Command Post exhaustively on this previous post
-Specialized Fast Trak LK [...]
I’m very lucky to have a full quiver of Specialized bikes to chose from!
After watching a few youtube videos on the Waco course, I decided to travel to Waco with my 29er Epic (Aluminium)- it loves rocky, rooty and twisty. But 30min into pre riding the course on wednesday I had to “call a friend” [...]
Picture and story borrowed from www.slowtwitch.com
Conrad Stoltz won his second straight XTERRA 2010 USA Championship race and Renate Bucher her second ever with definitive victories at the XTERRA South Central Championship at Waco, Texas today.
Stoltz followed his XTERRA West Championship win at Lake Las Vegas last month with a 2:02:21 finish for the 1.5 k [...]
With Specialized Triathlon team at Morgan Hill for product development and press training- more later. Or check my Facebook and Twitter
Las Vegas chocolate
Its hard being the athlete and the photographer, and large cameras make people nervous here, so excuse the iPhone’s lack of an iFlash…
For picture titles and descriptions, follow the link to flickr
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Oh yes, we spent a few hours in Cape Town. Here are some pics of the Pavilion 50m salt swimming pool, on the ocean side. (Where I have swim lessons)
Stunning…
Sea Point, with Lions Head on the left and the pool in the right:
Amber took her entire years’ vacation (from nursing in Reno) and is visiting me in Stellenbosch. Apart from the obvious- no snow!- we are having a great time*, delicious food & coffee in town, good training and cool people - even my friends…
* despite the building going on in the house.
This story made my day…
I play a bit of guitar myself, (on a $100 cheapy, and “play” used loosely) but being a frequently frustrated traveler with a $8000 Specialized bike in a box, I can really relate to this story: (feel free to substitute “guitar” with “bicycle” in the youtube video)
A musician named Dave Carroll [...]
Melanie McQuaid, myself, Shonny Vanlandingham and Josiah Middaugh “teaching” The Art of XTERRA at the Paul Mitchell XTERRA University. Pics by Nils Nilsen
I dont have 3hrs to write a good race report right now, but I know monday everyone spends half the day on their Facebook and reading about the weekends race results before real [...]
Amber Monforte - record setter new
Written by: Timothy Carlson
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009
Proving that a demanding job doesn’t have to stand in the way of remarkable athletic accomplishment, full-time nurse and Xterra veteran Amber Monforte decided to try her first three-day, 320-mile, swim-bike run Ultraman this August and walked away with the Ultraman Canada women’s [...]
“When the three-day, 520-kilometer test of swim-bike-run endurance was over, Xterra regular Monforte made the biggest impact. Monforte finished fourth overall including the men in a time of 25:36:49. She out-paced runner-up Barbi Brochu, who set a fastest swim time of 2:42:41, by 1:39:11. Monforte’s record time beat Tracy Preston’s Ultraman Canada women’s record of [...]
We are taking a short vacation and taking the scenic route home via Olympic park in Washington, ( I forgot to pack the tent, so we slept outside) and down the Washington and Oregon coasts.
We cant do much site seeing as Amber is so sore from her race, she can barely walk…
Read about Amber’s Ultraman [...]
Amber with our friend and crew Graham Bartlett getting ready for the swim.
Amber had an amazing day. I paddled the support boat next to her and knew right from the start she was flying. Swimming had always been her Achilles heel, but today her stroke was perfect with a snappy turnover. Was fun to watch. [...]
Amber warming up for Ultraman Canada. Its scorching here- around 100F. About 36C. She is feeling good and ready to go. 3 days of racing.
Day 1: 10km swim, 90Mi swim
Day 2:180 mi bike
Day 3: 54mi run.
Total: 10km swim, 418km bike, 84km run
Here is how the cattle guard should be ridden. On the smooth, narrow strip: [...]
Amber always loved going long. But this year she redefines the term “long.”
Early 2008 she took a huge plunge and quit her nursing job to race the US and European XTERRA Series. Oh yes, and Ironman South Africa and Kona. Placing consistently she finished 5th Pro woman in the US Series for which I think [...]
I know “fun” and “flying” is an oxymoron nowadays, but this was the best flight of the year. Our flight from Kona to Maui. Andrew the pilot is trying to squeeze 1x XL Specialized bike box and 1x XL Tri All 3 Double case into those small little bins under the belly of this “plane”. [...]
Checking my flexibility, Scott Holz, bike fit guru at Specialized’s OSBU headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA.
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