XTERRA Point Series Weekend Round-up and America's Best Pros Revealed

DAVIS, ECK WIN XTERRA MOUNTAINMAN

Hawaii's own XTERRA Pro Chad Seymour won the overall at the XTERRA Mountainman off-road triathlon at the scenic Kualoa Ranch on the island of Oahu on Sunday, while locals Jimmy Davis and Amy Eck (remember the brave soul who did XTERRA Worlds in a cast!) won the amateur titles.  The Mountainman is an important XTERRA World Championship qualifier for Hawaii residents.

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LEOPOLD, WOOD WIN XTERRA IRON WILL

Boomer Leopold and Jocelyn Wood (pictured) captured the individual titles at the XTERRA Iron Will off-road triathlon in Jonesboro, Arkansas on Sunday.

Wood, who was featured earlier this year as one of the sports rising stars, also captured the Arkansas Triple Crown title for winning all three XTERRA's in Razorback territory.  

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NIELSEN, AULT WIN XTERRA STOAKED

Kristoffer Nielsen won his fourth race of the season at the XTERRA Stoaked off-road triathlon in Hanover, New Hampshire on Sunday.  Nielsen also won the amateur title at the XTERRA East Cup, XTERRA Northeast Cup, and XTERRA Race at the Rez.  Nielsen's wife Erin narrowly missed winning the women's race which went to Kelly Ault out of Middlesex, Vermont.

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SCOTT, ENSLOW WIN XTERRA DINO

After several weeks of weather-induced delays Chris Scott and Beverly Enslow won the XTERRA Dino Versailles off-road triathlon in Indiana on Saturday.  Enslow is the reigning and three-time XTERRA World Champ in, get this, the 50-54 division! 

Full Results.

AMERICA'S BEST XTERRA PROS REVEALED

Josiah Middaugh and Shonny Vanlandingham (shown here on her way to victory at XTERRA Mexico) are America's best male and female XTERRA racers.  As proof, they are the reigning national champs and the top ranked U.S. athletes in the Cup Series (Middaugh is third behind Nico Lebrun and Conrad Stoltz while Shonny V is second behind Melanie McQuaid).

Both were recently featured in question and answer sessions done by Slowtwitch.  In Herbert Krabel's interview with Vanlandingham the 40-year-young sensation reveals how she evolved from a basketball player to a handballer to one of NORBA's all-time greatest mountain bikers and eventually into an XTERRA phenom.  She also shares some hidden gems, like how riding single speed bikes on trails is good for your skills, "makes you commit and go for it!"  Read the full interview here.

In Middaugh's one-on-one Tim Carlson discovers how the East Jordan, Michigan native migrated to Vail, Colorado and went from a fairly average runner in college to the ultimate athlete in the Ultimate Mountain Challenge.  He also learned that while Middaugh (pictured below at XTERRA Mountain Cup with son Sullivan, courtesy www.brightroom.com) doesn't wear an iPod or listen to music while training, the lyrics below to a song called Remember the Name by Fort Minor provided all the motivation he'd need to finish as the top American in Maui last year:

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill

Fifteen percent concentrated power of will

Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain

And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Read the full story here.

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