New US Canadian Endurance Series!

mtbmind — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:12:48 +0000

Four events, 2 Canadian and 2 in New England, have come together to offer the best of endurance challenges in the USCAN Endurance Series. Check this one out right away, as the first event closes registration on June 10th. Series website: www.uscanseries.com

USCAN Series
(2000 dollars of prize money)

The USCAN endurance series was created to encourage cross border racing and to give the racers an opportunity to race against competitors that they would not normally race against.

Each race has its own organisation, structure and personality. You are therefore encouraged to consult each race’s web site to get the appropriate information on each event that is part of the series. The purpose of this race series is to offer an exceptional package to the Mountain Biking community by adding value to our participants’ racing schedules.

The USCAN endurance series will act as a central focus point to keep track of the leader board and help keep track of the top contenders for the prize money.

Trans -Sylvania Epic

mtbmind — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:46:38 +0000

2010 Inaugural Transylvania Stage Race
written by: Karen Potter

First off I want to send out a big thank you to Mike Kuhn and Ray Adams for putting on a wonderful stage race. It was very well organized and everything ran smoothly as far as I could tell. The volunteers were great. Even Mike and Ray’s parents were instrumental in seeing this stage race come together. Their parents even made some of the prizes – like the very cool and unique handmade TSE coaster – I love it!

The photographer, A.E. Landes Photography was great too. Abe put together a slide show each evening of the day’s stage. Mike and Ray had some great schwag for prizes for everyone who finished as well as for daily stage winners. I hope they can continue to secure good sponsorship for this race, which I imagine they will be able too since it seemed to be a big hit this inaugural year.

The TSE was a great first stage race for me to enter into this new format of racing. Granted, half way through, I was thinking I wasn’t going to survive, but that had nothing to do with how the race was put on. It was tough but doable and with some really fun stages to boot.

Finishing out the week, I’d say maybe, just maybe, it was a tad short, although that’s because I am done now and at home looking at a couple of nice rest weeks before my next 100 miler. But I really don’t feel ‘wrecked’ like I anticipated feeling finishing this race. There was good variety in the stages, although, I wasn’t particularly keen on the long ‘roady’ day, but it was a break from the rocky, rough terrain of PA. And unfortunately my most tired day, Stage 4 at Raystown, was some of the most fun, fastest trail riding I’ve done in a while – smooth, giant pump track like terrain. It was sweet. I would love to go back there to ride those trails on fresh legs.

There are some wonderful trail systems in PA. We got to ride lots of them in this race and hopefully even more of them next year. I won’t lie – it is rocky, but mostly it’s just purely true mountain biking in my book. And my competition was pretty tough but I was pleased to hang in there in 2nd place with some really experienced endurance racers, and make lots of new riding friends.