XTERRA Trail Run Series 2009
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Jun
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It’s spring and that means the excitement is starting to set in with the XTERRA Trail Run Series kicking-off on the East Coast next weekend in Wolfeboro, NH! The XTERRA Trail Run Series made its debut last year and concluded at world championships held in the majestic Kaaawa Valley at Kualoa Ranch, located on the northeastern side of Oahu, HI on December 7th. It was an extremely intense race with beautiful scenery as the course took you through mud, dense rainforest, and broad open valleys, up mountains with verdant cliff faces and along the sets where major motion pictures were filmed such as Jurassic Park, 50 First Dates, Pearl Harbor, Lost, Godzilla and Windtalkers. The views out into the Pacific Ocean were breathtaking and made it a quite a challenge to focus on the race! After 21km through the most scenic and one of the most brutal race courses that I’ve ever raced, I became hooked on XTERRA. I finished 33rd overall, which equated to finishing in the top ten percentile. It was a journey to get to beautiful Oahu, HI which included XTERRA Xduro races in Nottingham, PA and then the Trail Running National Championships held in the Old Mill District of Bend, Oregon, proclaimed to be America’s best trail running town.
The fun begins again next weekend on April 26, 2009 in Wolfeboro, NH at the XTERRA Muddy Moose Xduro, which is the Northeast Regional Championship. The course should be wild as it involves short steep hills, logs, roots, water, and mud. This will be the first XTERRA Trail Running National Championships qualifier of the season for me, were I hope to qualify my way back into the World Championships and improve on last year’s placing.
About the XTERRA Trail Run Series:
XTERRA is on a mission to produce the most recognizable, enjoyable, root slipping, mud hopping, tree ducking, river crossing, hill climbing, dirt on your shirt, sweat in your eye trail runs this side of Grandma’s house!
More than 50 races across the U.S. comprise the XTERRA Trail Run Series and offer age group athletes the opportunity to become regional champions. We’ll also crown National Champions in Bend, Oregon on September 13 and World Champions in Hawaii on December 6.
Along the way XTERRA Trail Runs give back to the community by involving not-for-profits as beneficiaries at our events.
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