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

2009 XTERRA USA Championship Weekend

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 work starts, so here is a quick little something something about the weekend.

I’m driving to Reno today (9hrs) so I can get back to training for Maui in 4 weeks.

I finished 2nd behind Nico Lebrun on this mountain goat course, but nailed my 7th XTERRA USA Series title. More about this tomorrow.

This is a quick peek at this whirlwind weekend.

2009 XTERRA USA Championship Weekend

Josiah, Shonny and I  having fun at  XTERRA Univeristy on Friday

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Our home stay (5th year) with the Letendre family was epic, as usual. Hopefully they’ll come visit our farm in Africa soon.

Stellenbosch is so far far away...

Sunday “recovery ride” was a 2 hr 1000m climb (to 2400m) to the top of the Wasatch mountains. Bobby Behan is looking over Ogden towards the Bonneville salt flats and wishing our  friend Geniel de Villiers (09 Paris to Dakar rally winner) could give us a run in his racing Touareg down the 12mi salt strip

"Hoe rooier, hoe mooier" in Afrikaans means "The redder the better looking" but it doesnt translate well....

Red always looks fast- whether its on a bike or on a tree…

Wasatch mountains

Utah is amazingly beautiful…

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During the week I made 2 store appearances with Gu and Carol from Balega socks, and this morning (Monday) I visited Suunto and was roped into saying a few things in a big meeting. Why is it my legs get shaky when talking in front of so many people, but not shaky when racing in front of thousands?  From the look on my face here I was talking rubbish anyway. Check out the new Suunto Elementum watches.

Click here to see the #1 reason why I dont like bib shorts…

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runabq 28-09-2009, 22:03

Conrad,

You always get to sit next to the beautiful women.

Marc

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