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Clipping or cutting tires

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

This is a quick post to explain to John Harrington (facebook discussion on 24 August ) about clipping tires.

(There is more, but I couldnt screen shoot the whole thing- was born in the 70s)

These Specialized Captain 2.00 tires  clogged with mud at XTERRA Vermont in 2009 (Read more about the race, rotten foot and tire [...]

Conrad Stoltz profile on XTERRA.TV

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Hats off to the XTERRA TV crew and Whit Raymond (commentating)- those guys surely knows how to make one look good.
Thanks for the good times and good memories!

Pre season lab testing with my coach, Ian Rodger

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Filmed at the Specialized Team camp held in Stellenbosch in January 2010.
www.iamspecialized.com

Stoltz, Bucher win XTERRA East Championship

Monday, June 21st, 2010

The next XTERRA champion, Evan Carlson, 14 years old, won his XTERRA Sport race. AND he knows all about tires pressures…
Stoltz, Bucher win XTERRA East Championship
06/20/2010
Flying out in a few hours and packing like crazy. Luckily our canceled flight of this morning (would have been home already) will leave today after all. Instead of tomorrow… [...]

Bring your tri bars, XTERRA Richmond is a road race. Well, kind of…

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Seriously, they put a bush Zamboni into Forest Hill and tore a swath of trail wide enough to swing a cat. WHILE juggling 3 Caddilacs! To think I used to cut my bars narrower for this course…
I’m all for bringing the sport to the masses, but this trail will bring wives with baby strollers…
Here is [...]

Getting technical- bike set up for XTERRA Waco

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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” [...]

XTERRA Waco, Texas and how “the Caveman” became “the Cowboy”- for a day

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Caveboy. (or Cowman- Cowboy Caveman?) Renata Bucher’s 1st big win in the US Xterra Series
Due to excellent journalism by Trey Garman, I borrowed part of my race report from www.xterraplanet.com
[Conrad Stoltz, 36, from Stellenbosch, South Africa and Renata Bucher, 32, from Lucerne, Switzerland captured the inaugural XTERRA South Central Championship pro titles on [...]

Conrad Stoltz won XTERRA Waco 2010

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Conrad Stoltz did it again!
He won XTERRA Waco.
Waiting for results.
Bravo Caveman!

XTERRA switches to road triathlon

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Classic XTERRA humour! Stay true my family- if we wanted easy we’d do Ironman…
The pic is me on that great Milwaukee course
Visit XTERRAPlanet for info and XTERRA.TV for action

Now THIS is a race report!

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Pic by Gary Perkin
Xterra Grabouw
Kevin Flanagan, 23 Feb 2010
Grabouw, 1.5km swim, 25km mtb, 10km trail run
By Kevin Flanagan
I “raced” the Xterra off road triathlon on the weekend. It’s really the grand daddy of off road triathlons in South Africa. It is a series of triathlons held around the country, and it was Cape Town’s / Western Cape’s [...]

Carla, Vicenza’s biggest triathlon fan

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Thanks to the wonders of the World Wide Web, triathlon has gone viral! Even in Vicenza, Italy…

The perfect XTERRA bike. Specialized Epic S-works.

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Photo by RichCruse.com.
My Specialized Epic S-works worked like a dream, and this course on Maui is infamously tough on equipment. A lot of work has gone into the preparation of the bike for this race in particular.
Here are a few highlights:
 
Specialized tires
Specialized has been amazingly helpful in helping me find a tire that is [...]

When giving everything is not enough

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

2009 XTERRA World Champs podium by Rich Cruse
From L to R: Olivier Marceau (4th), Micheal Weiss (3rd), Eneko Llanos (1st), Nico Lebrun (2nd), Conrad Stoltz (5th)
Yes, I am disappointed. (Thanks for the nice e-mails. True friends are the ones who cares no matter the result) I did everything in my power to get to [...]

Finished 5th at XTERRA Worlds

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Pics by RichCruse.com

But boy, did I look good!
RichCruse.com for the pics

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 [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

10 Questions with South African XTERRA athlete, Dan Hugo

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

For starters, and the reader’s benefit, write a short paragraph about yourself:
I’m evading reality but painting a canvas with all the colour I can find. There’s a definite lack of technique, more just splashing lines and blobs of colour and allowing them to take on a story of their own. I was inspired, you see, [...]

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 [...]