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XTERRA Las Vegas, volume II

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

More pics from  XTERRA Las Vegas coming in.
A couple of good qoutes this week:
From my coach Ian Rodger: “Training is like fighting a Gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the Gorilla is tired.” “or maybe its more like fighting Chuck, you dont stop till Chuck is tired…”
From Amber, when I [...]

Won XTERRA Las Vegas

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Its always good to start the season with a win.  Even though Josiah Middaugh made my job a lot easier by flatting when he poached my line…
More complete post later. Click here for XTERRA report and complete results.
I got the job done on the bike- this moon landscape course is very particular- there were lots [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

XTERRA Las Vegas 2009

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Viva Las Vegas!
Pic by Rich Cruse . Check out more race pics on Rich’s Twitter.
I had a good season opener, despite a few hic- ups on the bike. (a small crash and a twisted chain)
Josiah Middaugh from Colorado had a 1.15 lead after a phenomenal bike, but to my surprise I slowly reeled him in on [...]

Rich Cruse Photography…

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

 Rich Cruse has been shooting XTERRA since my 1st intro to dirty triathlon in 2001. Since then we have become great friends, and we have done a lot of “work” together.
Our working relationship:

The Running Event: The Suunto Story

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The Suunto booth was just a few spaces from the Balega booth. As I went over to say “hi” I was pleasanty surprised by this poster they had. Larger then life. It was taken at XTERRA Snow Valley in CA, where I raced with my new limited edition, customized Suunto t6 Red Arrow. The one [...]

XTERRA USA Champs. Plumbed the deapths of empty legs, but won 6th XTERRA USA Series title

Monday, October 6th, 2008

photos by Rich Cruse photography

by Rich Cruse
What a weird, weird day.

Images from XTERRA Temecula. By Rich Cruse

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Nailed um. XTERRA West Championship 2008. Temecula, California.

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Picture by 2008 Rich Cruse
Railing a turn at XTERRA West Champs.

XTERRA West Championship. Temecula, California. The people who keep count says its my 6th XTERRA West win in 7 years. (the other year I was injured)
It was blazing hot. The run was absolutely brutal. Steep up- and downhills over terrain that a few days [...]