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.

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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

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.

Battle Creek Enquirer Article

Muskegon Chronicle Article

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

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

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