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GRETCHEN REEVES
Event: Ultimate Mountain Challenge
Hometown: Augusta, Georgia
The scoop: Reeves, a professional cross-country mountain biker
for Tokyo Joe's, was the winner of last year's Ultimate Mountain
Challenge at the Summer Mountain Games.
She's a formidable endurance racer, with accomplishments that
include winning the 2002 and 2003 Transalp Challenge titles and the
2004 and 2005 National Marathon cross-country titles.
She started mountain biking while studying at the University of
Georgia at Athens and moved to Vail following graduation, where she
turned pro in 1997. She still lives nearby in Edwards, and you may
have seen her racing with other local pros as part of the
Nike/Beaver Creek adventure race team. She's also an avid telemark
skier, snowshoer and backpacker.
You didn't know... She's always loved the Georgia Bulldogs.
Growing
up, her dream was to try out for the football team and be a
running back like Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. She had to
settle for being a Bulldogs cheerleader which, she says, still
ended up being a lot of fun.
GRETCHEN REEVES SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE
SHEET:
2nd Place - 2012 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
3rd Place - 2011 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2010 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
2nd Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2007 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
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SCOTT TRIPLETT
Louisville, Kentucky
I am competing in the Ultimate Mountain man Challenge. At 55 years
old I will be one of the more Senior competitors. So living much
lower than the altitude I will find in Vail Colorado I do as much
endurance training as possible. Finished the Kentucky Derby
Marathon this past Saturday. Will be spending the next six weeks
working on Road and Mountain Bike on the trails in the area. |
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JOSIAH MIDDAUGH
Event: Ultimate Mountain Challenge
Hometown: East Jordan, Michigan
The scoop: Middaugh, winner of last year's Ultimate Mountain
Challenge, is probably best known as an accomplished XTERA
triathlete
who won the national championships in 2004, 2005 and 2007. He also
is a regular on the podium of the National Snowshoe Championship
and at endurance mountain biking events.
Middaugh started out as a cross-country runner, competing as a
Division I cross-country and track athlete at Central Michigan
University. His distance running background was the perfect fit for
multi-sport racing, but the swimming took years to develop.
Middaugh and his wife, Ingrid, moved to Colorado in 2000, where
Middaugh races, trains and works as a personal trainer and
coach.
You didn't know... When Middaugh is not training, his favorite
activities
are being with his two sons, Sullivan and Porter, riding plastic
bikes and
baking cookies.
JOSIAH MIDDAUGH SUMMER MOUNTIAN GAMES SCORE SHEET:
1st Place - 2012 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2011 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2010 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2007 Ultimate Mountain Challenge |
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SARI ANDERSON:
Event: Ultimate Mountain Challenge
Age: 32
Hometown: Carbondale, CO
Website: www.sarianderson.com
The scoop: Sari is a professional multi-sport athlete who
competes in everything from mountain biking, to trail running to
snowshoe racing and ski mountaineering. She won the 2009 Ultimate
Mountain Challenge and placed second in 2008. She took last year
off to have her second child and will be looking to return to the
podium in 2011.
Sari was a member of Team Nike for several years when they
dominated adventure races around the globe and in 2006, she was
part of the Nike team that claimed the Adventure Racing World
Championships. Sari won the National Mountain Bike Marathon
Championship in 2007 and the 24-hour Mountain Bike National
Championships in 2010 as part of a co-ed team. She also won the
inaugural Winter Xterra World Championship in 2007 and in 2011 she
finished second at the Ski Mountaineering National Championships.
In the May 2011 issue of Outside Magazine, Sari was named one of
America's "fittest real athletes."
You didn't know...Sari is a part-time athlete and a full-time
mother of two. The bulk of her training is done with her kids in a
Chariot stroller, whether skiing, running or riding with them in
tow. Sari is scared of heights and addicted to Nutella.
SARI ANDERSON SUMMER MOUNTAING GAMES SCORE
SHEET:
1st Place - 2012 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
2nd Place - 2011 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
2nd Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2006 Adventure Sprint Race (team)
1st Place - 2005 Adventure Sprint Race (team)
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