Archive for the 'Conrad Stoltz' Category

Asian Games

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Somehow a picture of me at the 2000 Sydney Olympics made onto the 2010 Asian Games banner. Quite an honour, considering I’m sharing the space with Eneko Llanos (swimming) and Michellie Jones ( cycling)
A lot of people dont know that I raced road tris for 2 decades before I dipped my hairy Cave toes into [...]

D Day for XTERRA Worlds in Maui

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I have my new birthday kit, my bike is waxed, training is a thing of the past. Now its race time.
Sunday 25 Oct at 9.00am Hawaii time. Follow on www.xterra.tv (and watch the 2008 Worlds footage) Amber will be twittering on  #ConradStoltz

XTERRA USA Champs race report, Ogden Utah. Rather late than never

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

All pictures by Nils Nilsen
My dad is right- one can count a humans’ age like a tree- by the number of rings it has.  My dad says he is at the age where you can count the rings around his knees. One can count the number of USA XTERRA Titles I have won by the [...]

Conrad Stoltz’ World Championships race kit. Designed by Miltos Manetas and made by LUMA Sports.

Monday, October 5th, 2009

My LUMA tri kit is made and printed by my good friend and former XTERRA pro, Gary Mandy.  The amazing thing about LUMA is that you can go to LUMAsports.com,  design any thing you dream up, and Gary will have it made, printed and delivered to your door in 4 weeks!  The quality of the [...]

The Caveman Cometh (and he’s on a 29er)

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

So, you are a trail mashing mofo; gnarliest of the gnar. Yes, you are a fit machine and can ride. You have skills. Skills, eh? How about swimming, mountain biking and running — as in consecutively… in one day… at race pace?
Whaddya say? That off-road triathlon stuff — Xterra — isn’t for true mountain bikers? [...]

A pre-able to tuesdays’ race report for XTERRA USA Champs, Ogden.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

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 [...]

Won my 7th XTERRA USA Series. Got 2nd to Nico Lebrun

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Won my 7th XTERRA USA Series. Got 2nd to Nico Lebrun
Check out Nils Nilsen’s XterraPhotos.com.

THE XTERRA U.S. PRO SERIES SHOWDOWN…err, THROWDOWN!

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

XTERRA Utah 08
Saturday I will toe the line for my 7th XTERRA USA Series title. The Series title points to consistency throughout the season. After consistently winning a few races earlier this year, I got a nail through the tire in Idaho, and cut my foot in Richmond. (go here to see those juicy pics [...]

Champions’ training. Different strokes for different folks…

Monday, August 31st, 2009

In search for the holy grail of sports performance, Irish National Team ITU member, Gavin Noble (Dublin Triathlon Champion this past weekend) cranks out the Watts in the lab. This kind of lab testing will give Gav and his coach all kinds of numbers they can play with in training. Tests will be repeated often, [...]

Avia AVI STOLTZ review

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

My own customization for the muddy ski slopes at XTERRA Vermont
From Triathlon Product Reviews
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Avia Avi Stoltz Xterra Racing Shoe
After the traction disaster that my wife and I both suffered during the Granite Bay Duathlon, we went looking for a shoe with better traction that qualified as a racer. We both have significantly [...]

Conrad Stoltz. XTERRA triathlete. Shooter.

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Photo and camera by Rich Cruse. www.richcruse.com

Rich Cruse was my boss for 10 minutes

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I met sports photographer Rich Cruse at my 1st XTERRA- Richmond VA 2001.
Since then we have become close friends, but also we managed to do a lot of business together. He would shoot pics at races and make me look good- not an easy task- and I would offer it to the press and sponsors [...]

Cavemans’ special XTERRA taper

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

D Day -1 some people spend the whole day in bed, wearing their compression tights and visualizing their race.
The Caveman’s instincts pulls him to the river for FLY FISHING!

A Brown Trout in the Mad River on a  size 20 barbless Royal Wulfe fly.  3 weight rod with 12 ft leader+tippet. Got to love the waterproof [...]

Balega socks at Fleet Feet Burlington

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Just like at XTERRA Coeur D’Alene and XTERRA  Richmond, my friends from Balega (new website) came out to help spread the Balega and Fleet Feet specialty sport store love to the local community.
We usually have a meet and greet at the local Fleet Feet. (Even rhymes!) We smile knowingly when people rave about the best [...]

Surgery instead of pre riding.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

After a long and painful monday night, a red and puffy foot greeted me on tuesday morning.  I ran for the Doctor right away. I have had gangrene in this foot when I was 19  and it was almost amputated. (see scar on ankle) I know all about red and puffy and how easily it [...]

A clever story about a flat, Caveman teeth and ingenuity

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Dan Hugo and I  pre rode the XTERRA Richmond course shortly after our arrival from XTERRA Northwest Cup in Coeur D’Alene, where I had a 4 inch nail puncture my tubeless tire in 2 places. See previous blog.
My replacement tire was in the mail, so I rode the tire with the 2 nail holes, and [...]

How many World class triathletes raced at Club Mykonos? (South Africa)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Winning All African ITU title at Club Mykono 1998
Club Mykonons on the West coast of South Africa is 2 hrs north of Cape Town. It used to be a quiet, quaint rip off of  the village Mykonos, Greece.  The ocean always freezing- the swim was in the marina- for one of the turn buoys you [...]

XTERRA Midwest. Battle Creek, Michigan

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Winning smile & story time. During a week like this, so many things happen, its impossible to keep track of it all. I’ll try to give some perspective here.
My new race kit is officially here.  It arrived from Hong Kong on Friday. My mate Gary Mandy hooked me up sweet with LUMA kit. I have [...]

The making of a video. For www.i-am-specialized.com

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

This video was made for the “triathlon” part of the i-am-specialized website.
The a href=”http://www.i-am-specialized.com/triathlon” target=”_blank”>i-am-specialized website is aimed at being the public’s way of following Specialized riders’ racing and stories online. It is a new site and will mostly aim at internet video content. Internet video is the new TV.
I am honoured to be the [...]

Conrad Stoltz won XTERRA Las Vegas

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Conrad won XTERRA Las Vegas!
More info will follow…
News and photo by Rich Cruse via twitter…
This is Nikola, Conrad’s little helper, ciao