Wild and Wonderful this weekend.

The famous Odyssey race starts tomorrow morning. There are 48 teams, 124 competitors from 17 states and 2 of these teams are Calleva's teams. Our veterans Val, Karen and Vlad race in Squad Calleva, while Phil, Sarah and Adam are going for their first 24 hours event as team UHB.

The race course is about 100 miles long and includes whitewater rafting, mountain biking, trekking and navigation with map and compass at all times.
The race central is working on Checkpoin Tracker, the leader board and life coverage should be ON tomorrow morning.

Leave your comments on the race central to support our teams!

Take a look on our new uniforms:

That's Vlad taken photo with the team on-board camera before the start of the race.

P.S. Dima is out of commission for the next 3 weeks because of a broken rib.

9 hours of Cranky Monkey

Race Report by Petr Minar, team Calleva/NCVC

The race took place in Rocky Gap State Park in MD on May, 15. This is a new venue from EX2Adventures for this year. Rocky Gap is beautiful place in MD surrounding lake Habeeb. Camping on the lake shore by the beach was permitted during the race weekend and I took the advantage of it and camped with my family for 2 days. We had very good time..
Race started on Saturday 11 AM and finished in the evening at 8 PM. Racers competed to make as many 8 mile laps as possible in the shortest time before the time cut off. Rocky Gap's mountain bike trail is smooth rolling semi- technical on the lake shore and very technical and difficult while riding on the slope of the mountain. The race consisted of crossing several water features (short section of riding in the water ), rock gardens and tough rocky descents. To avoid a mechanical as much as possible was one of my objectives. I did have a leaking tire and a bad crash but recovered from both with minimal time penalties and rode to a victory in my class and overall 15 out of 160 teams.

Overall great weekend of racing, camping and fun.

Results are here.

Muddy Buddy 2010

This Sunday 600+ teams of two ran and biked their way through the hilly course of the Pocahontas State Park near Richmond, VA, stopping at intervals to complete obstacles that included a giant inflatable slide, a cargo net and the finishing mud pit. The Incredibles: Dima, Karen and mini muddy buddy Avery made it through the mud pit taken the second place in division! Last year we finished third, way to go!