Well, it was yet another successful weekend for the Team Active Racing crew as we had several racers participate in the Fort Custer Time Trial event on Sunday. Daryn raced in the Elite category and placed 8th - great job Daryn. Josh raced in the Sport 19-29 class and was one of 15 riders in his category. While his race started off rather "bumpy" (going over the handlebars and eating some dirt on the mogul section), he was able to recover and take 2nd for the day. The event was Tailwind's MTB Time Trial Championship and with overall finishes of 1st, 1st, 7th and today's 2nd he became the Series Champion! With two more series championships remaining (for other race promoters), Josh is looking forward to upcoming races and is headed to Maybury and Pontiac Lake in the weeks ahead.
Results:
JIM G. 4TH EXPERT 1:04
DARYN 8TH ELITE :58 MIN
MATT G. 11TH ELITE :59 MIN
KEITH W. 2ND SPORT 1:09
MIKE S. 8TH SPORT 1:11
ANGIE 1ST SPORT 1:16
JOSH 2ND SPORT 1:04
Our very own "Lieutenant Legs", Angie, also was out for the day on her new Scalpel and with the assistance of Shonger through some expert coaching on technical sections, she was able to take first in women Sport 25 - 39. Below is a recap from Angie herself:
Team Active did AWESOME yesterday!!
On Saturday, Mike Shong and I rode the course (probably a bad idea because I hadn't ridden for almost a week and a half) and I desperately needed to get used to my new Scalpel, since it was the first time I had it on the trails. He's a great teacher and showed me how to get up that rock 'wall' on the course and gave plenty of great tips on improving my mtn biking skills. Of course, not being used to the bike, I found I couldn't make it up several of the large climbs (I tried more than once to Mike's humor) and had to walk a few times and did donate a bit of blood to the trails.
Race day was beautiful but I got started and was quickly passed by Mike (started 30 sec behind me) and realized that this was not going to be a good ride. I was just dying, legs were sore, breathing hard and I had to slow down to almost a walk at one point. And I finally got passed by a woman, Jody, and just watched her ride off. And I still couldn't make it up the large climbs, darn it. Well, all of a sudden I see Jody in front of me again, but thought, eh, she's got me beat, I am just going to ride behind her. Then she was going really slow and I passed her (really slow) and just struggled on.
A huge thanks to everyone who cheered near the end. And thanks to Jim for riding next to me for the last, torturous part on the grass uphill - I didn't have much left. :-) What fun! And then when I went to check the results I looked at the board and well crap, I won! Sport Women 25-39.
Looks like it's Expert next.....
Congratulations to everyone for an awesome weekend!!!
Great job to all the Team Active Racers for another successful day on the trails. I also would like to congratulate Mike Groat for placing 2nd in the team 12-Hours of Pando race on Saturday. He was on a team of four racers competing in the "vets" category (35 and over) and had also intended on doing the FC Time Trial, but something about getting home at 3 am on Sunday left him sleep deprived and not interested in racing in another few hours.
Good riding by all,
Cap'n Cook
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
BTR Criterium Update
We had some team members race in the BTR this weekend. Racers included Devin, Jim, Joe and Mikey with Danny taking photos. They all rode very well today - perfect weather. Devin and Jim were at or near the front quite a bit today with Jim taking some long pulls. At the end Joe came across the line in second followed in 4th by Devin. Jim finished in the pack. Rumor has it Jim put in some great pulls for the team... Great job guys! Below are some shots from the day.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Devin Takes #2 in State Crit Championship!!!!
Dateline: Saturday, August 2, 2008
Reporting from Ada, Michigan, home of the 2008 State Criterium Championships, where the Men's Cat 4 and 5 groups were combined today for a field of 76 riders.
The race was 30 minutes and 5 laps. After a week off the bike, my goal was to stay upright and finish safely. The course was .7 miles and had a wicked chicane that resulted in at least one crash in the race.
From the start, the pace was accelerated, and while two primes formed temporary breakaway, none ever held until the last two laps. Fortunately, I was in that breakaway of about 20 riders; unfortunately, due to the narrow roads, I was unable to place higher than 17th. However, because they combined the categories, I came in 2nd in Cat 5. We averaged right at 25 mph for the race and it was a great experience to ride with the 4s.
Next week - August 9 - BTR Criterium at 8:00 am in Kalamazoo. I look forward to having more teammates to ride with.
Devin
Mountain Bike Update
Also of note, Matt and Jim raced the Big "M" mountain bike race this weekend and placed 2nd and 4th respectively. Great job guys! For those reading who may not realize it, this is the same venue where they hold the Lumberjack 100 and I remember it very well. Hope you enjoyed the hills... (grin).
Cap'n Cook
Reporting from Ada, Michigan, home of the 2008 State Criterium Championships, where the Men's Cat 4 and 5 groups were combined today for a field of 76 riders.
The race was 30 minutes and 5 laps. After a week off the bike, my goal was to stay upright and finish safely. The course was .7 miles and had a wicked chicane that resulted in at least one crash in the race.
From the start, the pace was accelerated, and while two primes formed temporary breakaway, none ever held until the last two laps. Fortunately, I was in that breakaway of about 20 riders; unfortunately, due to the narrow roads, I was unable to place higher than 17th. However, because they combined the categories, I came in 2nd in Cat 5. We averaged right at 25 mph for the race and it was a great experience to ride with the 4s.
Next week - August 9 - BTR Criterium at 8:00 am in Kalamazoo. I look forward to having more teammates to ride with.
Devin
Mountain Bike Update
Also of note, Matt and Jim raced the Big "M" mountain bike race this weekend and placed 2nd and 4th respectively. Great job guys! For those reading who may not realize it, this is the same venue where they hold the Lumberjack 100 and I remember it very well. Hope you enjoyed the hills... (grin).
Cap'n Cook
Friday, July 25, 2008
Front Page of WSJ Online!!!!
We knew that a camera crew was following Team Active Racings Primal Quest team, so at some point we'd expect to see some video of their event. Well, today is the day and as you can see from the screen shot of the WSJ's home page, our very TAR's very own made the home page.You can check out the video on the WSJ site directly , read the full article or scroll down and (assuming I put the code in the right way) you should be able to view it from this post. Kathy, Eric and Melissa have been at our Wednesday night team rides and say they are still "recovering". I actually ventured out on a run after this week's ride with Kathy and Melissa and they were kind enough to trot along at my pace (thanks ladies). Hey, when you're a Clydesdale like me just being able to run after 35 miles of hammering on the bike is an accomplishment.
Video:
Anyway, thought you'd like to know that a little team from Battle Creek, MI made the front page of the WSJ. That doesn't happen every day!
Cap'n Cook
Sunday, July 20, 2008
How about some race updates...?
Greetings friends,
First off, I want to make sure that visitors to the site take note that all of our sponsors to the right of the page now are "hot" links to their individual websites. Team Active Racing certainly appreciates all of their support for the 2008 season, so if you have an opportunity to visit them (and support them with some business), we'd appreciate it (and know they would too).
Anyways, since the Primal Quest has officially completed, the team has been in the news recently. Check out the links below for some articles that may be of interest. Eric, Kathy and Melissa joined the team last Wednesday night on our weekly training ride and did great. You'd hardly believe they trekked over 500 miles just a few weeks ago. At the onset we took a big hill out of Battle Creek and I overheard Melissa say (oh, this looks familiar), full well knowing they likely climbed like this for several MILES (on several occasions) while in the mountains.
Last weekend Jonah rocked it with a great Clydesdale finish in the Waterloo Triathlon. Below is the recap of the race, straight from the "big guy" himself. Great job Jonah!
I raced the waterloo triathlon on Sunday at the Waterloo Rec Area near Jackson. For whatever reason, I have struggled with doing well at this race in the past. I have place, but never taken first. Finally got the tall trophy today though by knocking almost 8 minutes off from my time from last year. Missing from the field though were some of the guys I normally battle with so I beat second place by about 17 minutes. My run was ok for a hilly, twisty 5-mile trail run at 7:49 pace. I cut a couple minutes off my swim and rolled 23.5 for 16 miles on the bike. This weekend I have a 10k in Spring Arbor on Saturday and YMCA happy trails tri in Milford.
Peace,
Jonah
Also, this weekend Danny and Jennifer completed in another team duathlon (run/bike/run) at the Clark Lake Duatholon, with Danny pulling bike duty between Jennifer's running. While team Danny and Jennifer were the only "mixed" duathlon team, they represented very well and Danny provides the following recap of the race. Great job guys!
Just wanted to pass along an update on the Clark Lake Duathlon/Tri that Jennifer and I did today. We of course won but we were also the only du team there :). There were a few tri teams but we had fun anyway. It was a good course overall although the first run and bike were shorter than advertised on the web site. During the ride as I was expecting 3 more to go, I came around a turn and saw the finish.
It definitely changed how I rode the race but I still averaged right under 25mph. I felt good and had one of the higher average speeds I have had this year. Jennifer ran a great race again and was one of the first seven females to finish - she is a great race partner!! And of course they ran out of medals so ours will have to be mailed.
We are going to plan on doing the MI state tri championship in Sept with Dave Sanford again as our swimmer. Should be fun.
-Danny
Finally, Josh continued his amazing (first) season of mountain bike racing this weekend at Ruby Campground with a 2nd place finish - in the mud. Below is Josh's recap of the race.
I just wanted to let everyone know how the race went today. The race was very muddy and not ideal for going fast. I only crashed twice going down some sloppy muddy hills. My overall finish ended up being 2nd. It was a hard fought race to the finish with another guy in my class, until I cramped up on the last river crossing. I think that Matt Gaffner also got 4th in his class. I'll be at Stony Creek next weekend. I also just wanted to give a breakdown on how my results are going for the three series that I'm participating in this year.
MMBA - 2nd / 1st / 10th / 1st / tba / tba / tba / tba
USAC - 1st / 4th / 1st / 1st / 2nd / will miss / tba / tba
TT Series - 1st / 1st / missed / tba / tba
The MMBA and USAC take the best 5 of 8, and the TT series takes the best 4 of 5.
That's the update, talk to ya soon!
-Josh
Great job to all of the Team Active Racers for another awesome couple of weekends of racing.
Cap's Cook
First off, I want to make sure that visitors to the site take note that all of our sponsors to the right of the page now are "hot" links to their individual websites. Team Active Racing certainly appreciates all of their support for the 2008 season, so if you have an opportunity to visit them (and support them with some business), we'd appreciate it (and know they would too).
Anyways, since the Primal Quest has officially completed, the team has been in the news recently. Check out the links below for some articles that may be of interest. Eric, Kathy and Melissa joined the team last Wednesday night on our weekly training ride and did great. You'd hardly believe they trekked over 500 miles just a few weeks ago. At the onset we took a big hill out of Battle Creek and I overheard Melissa say (oh, this looks familiar), full well knowing they likely climbed like this for several MILES (on several occasions) while in the mountains.
Last weekend Jonah rocked it with a great Clydesdale finish in the Waterloo Triathlon. Below is the recap of the race, straight from the "big guy" himself. Great job Jonah!
I raced the waterloo triathlon on Sunday at the Waterloo Rec Area near Jackson. For whatever reason, I have struggled with doing well at this race in the past. I have place, but never taken first. Finally got the tall trophy today though by knocking almost 8 minutes off from my time from last year. Missing from the field though were some of the guys I normally battle with so I beat second place by about 17 minutes. My run was ok for a hilly, twisty 5-mile trail run at 7:49 pace. I cut a couple minutes off my swim and rolled 23.5 for 16 miles on the bike. This weekend I have a 10k in Spring Arbor on Saturday and YMCA happy trails tri in Milford.
Peace,
Jonah
Also, this weekend Danny and Jennifer completed in another team duathlon (run/bike/run) at the Clark Lake Duatholon, with Danny pulling bike duty between Jennifer's running. While team Danny and Jennifer were the only "mixed" duathlon team, they represented very well and Danny provides the following recap of the race. Great job guys!
Just wanted to pass along an update on the Clark Lake Duathlon/Tri that Jennifer and I did today. We of course won but we were also the only du team there :). There were a few tri teams but we had fun anyway. It was a good course overall although the first run and bike were shorter than advertised on the web site. During the ride as I was expecting 3 more to go, I came around a turn and saw the finish.
It definitely changed how I rode the race but I still averaged right under 25mph. I felt good and had one of the higher average speeds I have had this year. Jennifer ran a great race again and was one of the first seven females to finish - she is a great race partner!! And of course they ran out of medals so ours will have to be mailed.
We are going to plan on doing the MI state tri championship in Sept with Dave Sanford again as our swimmer. Should be fun.
-Danny
Finally, Josh continued his amazing (first) season of mountain bike racing this weekend at Ruby Campground with a 2nd place finish - in the mud. Below is Josh's recap of the race.
I just wanted to let everyone know how the race went today. The race was very muddy and not ideal for going fast. I only crashed twice going down some sloppy muddy hills. My overall finish ended up being 2nd. It was a hard fought race to the finish with another guy in my class, until I cramped up on the last river crossing. I think that Matt Gaffner also got 4th in his class. I'll be at Stony Creek next weekend. I also just wanted to give a breakdown on how my results are going for the three series that I'm participating in this year.
MMBA - 2nd / 1st / 10th / 1st / tba / tba / tba / tba
USAC - 1st / 4th / 1st / 1st / 2nd / will miss / tba / tba
TT Series - 1st / 1st / missed / tba / tba
The MMBA and USAC take the best 5 of 8, and the TT series takes the best 4 of 5.
That's the update, talk to ya soon!
-Josh
Great job to all of the Team Active Racers for another awesome couple of weekends of racing.
Cap's Cook
Monday, July 07, 2008
Jonah - Our "little" Firecracker
While many of Team Active Racing's members took the holiday weekend "off" from competing (although I'm sure many of us got out for a ride or two and enjoyed the fabulous weather), our Clydesdale Tri-Man, Jonah, raced in the Firecracker Triathlon this weekend. Thanks to Jonah for the summary of the race and hope all those reading this had a great (and safe) 4th of July holiday.Yesterday at the Firecracker Tri in Benton Harbor I had a pretty fair day. I beat my second place time from 2007 by almost 7 minutes, but still only managed to come in third in 2008. I felt pretty good about my results, I averaged 25 on the bike and had a solid run and swim. Another tri this coming weekend at Waterloo State Park east of Jackson. This is one that I have struggled with in the past, so I am pretty pumped about it.
-Jonah Curtis
On another note, many of us hope to be getting together soon with Kathy & Eric to begin listening to all the stories from their Primal Quest adventure. We'll see if Scott can make it back over to Marshall and figure that Melissa is settled back home on the "other side" of the country. I have been contacted by local media and newspapers wanting to speak with the team and get an update in the papers, so when something "official" comes out, we'll be sure to provide a link to it on this site.
Until next time...
Cap'n Cook
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
They're Done!!!!!
2008 Primal Quest Montana team #28, Team Active Racing, has officially finished! We're excited about their completing this grueling event and will post more information when they get home. I'm sure there will be plenty of stories to share. Congrats, we're all so proud of you.
Team Active Racing #28:
Scott Campau, Kathy Roche-Wallace, Melissa Hughes, Eric Wallace and Cameron Wallace
Team Active Racing #28:
Scott Campau, Kathy Roche-Wallace, Melissa Hughes, Eric Wallace and Cameron Wallace
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