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Who is Frank Stacy our tire man?
Reba on 24 hours of Moab
XC MTB Team Update ...
Another season is over! Since Schladming a good bit has happened.
Lene did some local races in Norway, but has been feeling tired. Slowly but surely her symptoms revealed "shingles", which is essentially a form of Chicken Pox. Doctors orders and Lene was to rest up, which put an end to her season and Roc D'Azur, the season finale.
Liam has been pestered with injuries following his fall in Beijing, but specifically a bad wrist injury, which turned into tendonitis. Liam barely made the start line at Roc D'Azur and in the final hour of racing his wrist gave him a lot of trouble - he still finished! Liam now needs to rest up.
Conrad Stoltz wins the USA XTerra Series for a sixth time
Trond Hansen wins 26TRIX in Leogang
Reba the firefighter
Susi wins the World Cup Final in Schladming, Austria
The team arrived in Schladming, Austria on Wednesday for the final round of world cup racing. It’s been a long world schedule with nine rounds in total, plus world championships in both marathon plus cross-country and of course the Olympic Games. As always, despite some weary bodies at season end, spirits have been high all week, as they usually are.
Lene 6th overall in the World Cup series showing steady progression
The lady in pink (courtesy Gary Perkin)
An interview with Reba
Reba’s Rapid Rise: Meet Specialized’s Endurance Specialist September 5th, 2008 by Yuri Hauswald (taken from www.bikemonkey.net)
Rebecca Rusch’s(Specialized) meteoric rise in the cycling endurance race scene, specifically 24 hour solo events, is nothing short of spectacular considering that the Ketchum, Idaho resident only started mountain bike racing three years ago. In that short span of time she has racked up two 24 hour solo World Championships, a national title, and countless victories in 12 hour events. The one time uber adventure racer won, what is widely considered to be the pinnacle of adventure races, the Raid Gauloises in Kyrgyzstan in 2002. Here are a few excerpts of an interview I did with her this summer, the entire article will be featured in our next issue of Bike Monkey.
Bike Monkey: Biggest accomplishments, so far, on and off the bike?
Soup Caveman Style
I learnt this recipe from master chef and long time house mate Jan Bekker. (Who has defected to Australia recently for “work”)
My prerequisite for a good soup:
- It has to be quick to prepare. (Athletes are always hungry and usually have to eat NOW!)
- It has to be easy to throw together. When you are bonked from a 4 hr training session, you dont want to go scour the back alleys of a certain ethnic neighbourhood to get the ingredients.
- It has to be healthy. (Or ice cream would have worked just as well)
As with almost every thing I cook, I’ll make enough for a number of meals and save it in the fridge. It reduces dish washing and you’ll be prepared for the FOOD NOW feeling next time you are so bonked you feel ants walking on your head.
Ok, enough chit chat, here are the goodies, mate:
Cut roughly straight into large pot:
- 1 large head of Broccoli.