Triangle Adventure Racing Team

2009 Pisgah Mtb Adventure Race (PMBAR)

bruce — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:56:45 +0000

Some of the boys travelled to Pisgah for the May 2nd PMBAR race held in Brevard NC. Covering a wide expanse of the Pisgah National Forest teams of two tackled the singletrack and gravel roads in the area while navigating to a series of checkpoints scattered throughout the forest. Leading the charge was the duo of Charlie Roberts and Ernie Chilcott finishing on the prestigious “white board” in 21st overall. More important that their finish time and place was their taking the killer 5th checkpoint. With only four required, very few teams risk or are willing to tackle the extras that are routinely part of this race. Dragging into the finish with a mere mortal four checkpoints was Bruce Dale and his teammate Innes Wright in just under 11 hours, also good enough to put triangle-ar on the white board again! For a couple of lads with a combined age of 90, a not too shabby result. Clearly race director Eric Weaver put an emphasis on stepping the race up and this years offering proved to be the longest by approximately an hour of anyones recent memory. …..of course you know us endurance addicts have a very short memory when it comes to suffering!

Some pics of the event:

http://adventureracing.meetup.com/17/photos/

Health and Fitness parameters survey

bruce — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:46:12 +0000

Fellow Adventure Racers please take a minute to fill out the following survey to lend a hand to team member Ernie Chilcott. I just finished it myself and it requires no personal information and is very quick and easy. What have you go to lose?

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB22934LZ6HLM

Solid Results @ Warrior’s Creek

bruce — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:24:05 +0000

Team members Ernie, Charlie and Bruce returned from the 6HR @ Warrior’s Creek mountain bike race posting some solid results. Charlie and Ernie paired up to compete in the duo male category, placing 8th overall. Bruce teamed up with local female sport racer Dena Ali to finish 9th in the co-ed duo race pairings. The course was a combination of rolling switchbacks and short tough leg sapping climbings that never seem to relent. Team Triangle-AR produced some very solid results given the technical riding involved. The day finished out with some great food and even better beer from http://www.boonebrewing.com/

Uwharrie Trail Run results

bruce — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:08:00 +0000

Congrats to Triangle-AR team members Brian, Jeff and Charlie for completing the grueling Uwharrie 40 miler on February 7th in Troy NC. This race is known for it’s February weather and tough elevation. Brian led the way with a 8HR 30 minute effort, shadowed closely by Charlie at 8HRS 41MIN and Jeff rolling in at 9HRS 30MIN (not too shabby for a beach bum) Check out the link for more details:

http://www.raceuwharrie.com/

Mountain Bike Tire Review

webmaster — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:24:26 +0000

Mtbr.com has an interesting tire review thread that contains rolling resistance in watts, puncture resistance, and subjective traction & cornering ratings for numerous tires. Someone has also put all of this into a nifty Google spreadsheet.

I am planning to add to my collection and trying to decide among a handful of contenders. This helped narrow down my selection. It is definitely worth reading if you’re a parts nerd, or just tend to obsessively research before making a purchase (like me).

Training through illness

bruce — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:53:26 +0000

Recieved these good tidbits from active.com email network. It’s that time of the year and the question always comes up do I run/ride through a cold or simply rest and hope it goes away. Check out the link:

http://www.active.com/triathlon/Articles/Coping_With_Illness_During_Aerobic_Training.htm?act=EMC-Active&Vehicle=Triathlon&Date=02_01_09&Edition=1&Sections=Articles&Creative=Coping_With_Illness_During_Aerobic_Training&TextName=More&ArtText=Txt&Placement=1&Dy=Mon

Mandatory Gear AR Results

bruce — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:20:27 +0000

Bruce paired up with fellow RDU-Trailblazer’s Rich Ingersoll and Brian Fowler to tackle the 1st Annual Mandatory Gear AR in Conway SC. The trio racing together for the first time managed a decent finish with a time of 5:46. Despite some Navigation errors for two checkpoints, the trios saving grace was some pretty fast riding legs to keep them under the six hour cut-off. The Six hour race featured 7-8 miles of orienteering, 20 miles of mountain biking and 2-3 miles of black water paddling through the backwoods of coastal SC. Topping off their race day, Bruce won a Brunton L3 headlamp in the prize drawing and Brian Fowler took home a very nice Salomon AR pack for his efforts.

Glen Eagles Challenge II

bruce — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:57:20 +0000

Team members Brian and Bruce took sometime out from the regular racing scene to support the local RDU-Trailblazers AR practice series held in early November. The event took place over the trails and greenways around the Bond Park area of Cary. With plenty of miles of riding, a dedicated orienteering course and some very special challenges including a lung searing 1 mile opening run leg it made for a great workout and social event. Thanks to Bob May for setting up the course!!

Brian and Bruce scored 251 points in maxing out the course with an overall time of 3HRs 03 MIN. Check out a few team pics from the event:

http://adventureracing.meetup.com/17/photos/478404/

2008 Gold Nugget 12HR AR

bruce — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:50:56 +0000

Brian, Bruce and Dale Long travelled to the Uwharrie Trails region of NC in October to compete in the 2nd Annual Gold Nugget AR racing as a three male team in the 12HR version. Despite some navigation snags the team managed a fourth overall, ranking second among the all male teams with a total of 880 points and elapsed time of 11HRS 45 MIN. The race consisted of a signficant amount of hike-a-bike, paddling on Badin Lake and a dedicated orienteering course. Check out the link for pics from the event.

http://adventureracing.meetup.com/17/photos/451934/

USARA Nationals

charlesr — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:36:01 +0000

Charlie Roberts joined up with Michele Hobson and Chris Brown as team Checkpoint Zero/Inov-8 II for the USARA Nationals Race in Blue Ridge, GA. Even having two navigators, the team still made a couple of costly mistakes, but continued on and endured the rain, the cold, the crazy elevation gain, and even the mandatory biking on train tracks to pull out an 8th place finish!