8.04.2005

08.04.05 - #3 post of the day (big bear/suicide 6 update)

finally got signed up for the NORBA at snowshoe coming up the 18th. marathon starts at 9am and is two laps of a 24 mile course. according to one cameron chambers, these races have been stupid fast all year and expect chris e to take off from the gun. lots o' fun.

check out the registered riders here: SNOWSHOE REGISTERED RIDERS HERE

you will have to make a selection to see what class - choose "marathon open male"

and, cool thing is, brett sent me a link to an interesting article about this race. seems as if ESPN is going to be there. sweet. i'll wave my hand obnoxiously at the start line so all you guys can see me.

oh, the article can be seen here: ESPN AT SNOWSHOE

after this race, off to the goat and off to the SUICIDE 6 on the 20th.

this be the final race in the 3 race new york endurance series. i won the first two in my age group earlier this year.

and... whew... the links are getting crazy here.. one more...

seems i am rock star again. was talking to michael at the shop the other day (he does their graphic, web page and some of the database admin work) and he said that SPEEDGOAT has a new ad in ADVENTURE SPORTS magazine featuring none other than myself. went to borders to see if they had a copy, but they didn't. guess it's carried a lot by athletic shoe stores and the magazine is geared towards the advenure racing crowd. AND, the ad appears a couple of pages before an article/blurb about the big bear 24 hours and it even mentions me by my real world name (ernesto marenchin).

so, check it out. and if anybody has it and could scan in a pic of the ad and forward it to me, that would be super cool because i haven't seen it. send it to solo_goat@yahoo.com.

oh, and good luck to michael at the shop because he is going to WV and competing in that crazy wilderness 100 race. 5 check points, lots of trails - and no markings inbetween. when i told him that he should of done the 101, he said that it was too boring and predictable because it was marked. guess this race took him 14 hours last year and by night fall, there was still 6 riders on the course and everybody was starting to leave or go to sleep. race organizers were leaving too - they told everybody that they had to prepare to race all day. sounds like fun - NOT.

gotta run - sologoat out.

2 comments:

Jason said...

E.M.,

I was at Barnes & Nobele today looking at Adventure Sport today. Didn't see any Big Bear stuff in it or Speedgoat... Had an article about 24 hour racing. The issue I was lookig at focused on chick Adv. Sport racers. My guess is that that issue hasn't hit the stands yet. I coulda missed though. Check B&N.

JM

Solo Goat said...

JM-

thanks for the info. not sure what issue it is - i am going to confirm with michael at the shop which month it was because he was holding the issue in hands when i was talking to him. he told me, but i forget.

good write up on the 101 - a "little bit" of climbing that day, eh?