Fall Update

After starting this blog and barely posting, it seems like as good a time as any to update with a bit of elete news. The summer season is winding down and we are moving into winter.

elete summer athletes closed out the season in fine fashion. The Topeak-Ergon team closed out the season at the 24 Hours of Moab, which were also the 24 Hour National Championships. Sonya Looney and Yuki Saito raced in the duo coed category and pulled off a third place, despite stomach problems for Yuki. Eddie O'Dea took on the solo category but succumbed to a prior knee issue that redeveloped as a result of the cold overnight temps.

Yours truly, Sarah Kaufmann, squeezed out a second place in the womens' solo category. The race was super and unfolded quite unpredictably. After the first lap, pre-race favorite, Pua Sawicki, had gone off the front and myself, Ezster Horanyi and, other pre-race favorite, Jari Kirkland, finished our first lap together. Sadly, Jari crashed out during her second lap. Ezster and I would remain anywhere from one to 10 minutes apart until 4am, when I had some issues with my light. Between my body breaking down, lack of light and trying to fix my light, I lost 20 minutes on that lap and lost any chances I had of catching Ezster. At that point, I turned my attention to securing second, slowing my pace significantly, completing another two laps and calling it a race.

As further proof that winter is upon us (aside from the snow-capped mountains visible from our office window...), our olympic biathlon twins, Lanny and Tracey Barnes, were in nearby Heber City for a training camp. The girls skiied on snow and drove through a whiteout on their first day. They took first and second and second and third in their two races during the camp. Expect big things from the girls this winter in Vancouver!

elete is not just a summer product! Good hydration supports proper circuation (read: your fingers and toes stay warm and don't get numb). Drop some elete in your pack, drink all day and stay warm. Counterintuitive, I know...but it works. Trust me :)

Summer Update

elete Athletes have been busy battling the heat this summer.

Lanny and Tracy Barnes have been all over the US, from skiing sand dunes in Colorado to conquering the North American Biathlon Summer Rollerski Championships, with Tracy winning that event and Lanny taking second.

Jeff Kerkove has been racing all over with the rest of the Ergon team, most recently winning the inaugural Pierre's Hole 100 Mountain Bike Race. The course was made of four 25 mile laps with over 4000ft of climbing per lap! Jeff crushed it for the win in a time of 9:17.

Yours truly (Sarah Kaufmann) participated in my first mountain bike stage race; the Intermontane Challenge in Kamloops, BC. It suffered from a few hiccups as a first year event but was full of killer riding for five days. Temperatures were over 100degrees most days and I downed a lot of elete! I managed third place and a spot on the podium.


Check back to see what elete athletes are up to as the summer winds down.

elete at the Breck Epic

Congrats to elete Athlete Jeff Kerkove who completed the first Breck Epic stage race in Breckenridge, Colorado. Jeff not only completed the Breck Epic, he raced the Firecracker 50 the day before!

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