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Amber Monforte and Will Kelsay, Trans Rockies Run

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

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 [...]

A clever story about a flat tire, Caveman teeth and ingenuity.

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I never tire of this episode from XTERRA Richmond Virginia 2009. “Tire” pun intended…
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 [...]

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!

The Caveman’s semi secret XTERRA tips

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

2008 XTERRA Worlds
The Caveman’s somewhat-secret XTERRA tips.
“Somewhat secret” because I borrowed (and modified) the article from my “All” (previous blog posts)  page.
• XTERRA is a strong mans race. An endurance event. Don’t let the seemingly short distances fool you. Forget about 400 repeats on the track and all-out sprints on [...]

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… [...]

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 [...]

XTERRA Waco, Texas

Monday, May 24th, 2010

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Getting ready for XTERRA Las Vegas

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Las Vegas chocolate

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 [...]

Being a novice again. 2009 Wilseyville Hare Scramble

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

2009 Wilseyville Hare Scramble write up, pics and video here.
The entry form says AMA championship series, so maybe it was a big race? All I know is I was as green as it gets. The newness of this unfamiliar sport opened my eyes to what athletes new to triathlon and  XTERRA experience. Nervous, excited, clueless, [...]

Interview with Triharder.co.za

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Triathlon is booming in South Africa. Ironman in PE, the 70.3 in Buffalo city, the XTERRA Series in its 6th year, a budding ITU programme and various off road multisports events.
Triharder.co.za is a cool new South African  based triathlon website and here is an interview I did a few weeks ago.
TriathlonTeam.com, (of which I’m a [...]

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 [...]

I will be racing XTERRA Worlds in my birthday suit!

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I got this birthday card from the Balega folks in South Africa. Tanya is always very creative with the Photoshop…
If your Afrikaans is a little rusty:
“Happy birthday Conrad, Enjoy every moment, Bert, Tanya and the Falke (Balega) team”
Also, my LUMA race kit by Greek artist Miltos Manetas can just in time for my birthday: Read [...]

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, [...]