It’s been a really busy racing so far with plenty of great racing results.

First week of June was the inaugural Kananaskiker Stage Race.

Highlight includes Tim and Clayton placing 9th and 10th in the 40+ category in the XC race. Trish placed 3rd in the Open Womens category.
In the hill climb Steve took 4th while Craig M. and Tim took 7th and 8th place while Trish took 3rd.
In the ITT Tim took 7th and Tom took 9th place while Trish took 2nd in the Open Women’s category.

Second week of June was the new Iron Maiden XC race along with the returning Organ Grinder 5 hour Enduro.

Devin placed 7th in the Elite men and Trish placed 3rd in the Elite Women.

In the Organ Grinder on Sunday Steve manged an impressive 4th place in the men’s 40+ solo category while Devin took 7th in the Open Men’s.

3rd week of June was the Banff Bike Fest with Kyle managing to get 6th in the Cat 5 criterium.

Also surprise Tour Divide participant Tori is just days away from finishing the survival type race Tour Divide which take participants from Banff to the Mexican border along the Great Divide route.
Information about the race can be found here: http://tourdivide.org/Tori race traker can be found here: http://trackleaders.com/tourdividei.php?name=Tori_FaheyTori has also been updating her awesome blog regularly which be found at: http://www.observatori.ca/

This coming weekend a huge contigent of ‘Goat will be heading to Fernie to race in
the inauguaral Furious 3 MTB stage race. Details can be found here: http://www.furious3.com/

Dear Solstice racers

Due to the constant rain in Calgary we have decided to Cancel the Summer Solstice race on Saturday May 28th.

We had hoped that the rain would stop by today and give the course a chance to dry out but that is not happening.

We will issue a refund to all that have signed up, it may not be the full amount but will be close.

We will advise on that ASAP.

Sorry for any inconveniences but we tried.

The Giver8er is still a go so if you still want to get a race in sign up for the Giver8er.

Regards,

Tim Brezsnyak and Ted Anderson

Deadgoat Racing

It’s been a pretty busy May with lots happening with the team.

First off, a huge congratulations to Tori who just completed the Tour D’Afrique stage race. Tori was the overall women’s winner and finished in 7th overall. She cycled almost 12,000km through 10 countries in about 4 months.

Article from Canadian Cyclist

Another congratulations is also in order to Craig and Erik who recently returned from the Transportugal Stage Race. There were a few mishaps during the stage race in which Craig didn’t receive an official completion time but managed to win Stage 4 and 6. Erik had an official finish in 32nd place. Fellow Albertan, Kate Aardal, managed to snag 5th place overall.

Craig will be departing during the second week of June to race the very challenging Tour Divide, so wish him good luck when you see him.

On Sunday a huge contigent of ‘Goat headed up to BC for the annual Salty 6 hour Enduro in Salmon Arm.
Trish Grajczyk won the solo women’s Expert 40+ category and Julie Kelly and Tami Thicke placed 4th and 8th respectively in the Women’s Sport <40 category. We also had 2 top ten's in the Men Solo Expert 40+. A great showing overall from all our racers.

Reminder that in 2 weeks we'll be hosting the "Suffering at COP" XC race on the 28th of May and the 4th annual Giver-8-er 8 hour Enduro on Sunday May 29th. There will be suffering...
Registration for both events is up on Karelo.

2011 Summer Solstice Technical Guide

2011 Giver8er Technical Guide

It’s now spring and racing season is just a little over a month away. 

A few updates for the month of April:

Tori is currently holding onto 6th place overall going into Stage 71 of the Tour D’Afrique and is also the current overall women’s leader.

Craig and Erik will be going down to Portugal at the end of April to race in the Trans-Portugal mountain bike stage race.

Registration is now up on Karelo for both Deadgoat races.

Summer Solstice  XC Race on Saturday, May 28th

Giver-8-er 8 hour Enduro on Sunday, May 29th

Also registration is up for the CMC/Bow Cycle hosted Organ Grinder 5 hour enduro which will be held at the Canmore Nordic Centre on Saturday, June 12th.

Just a quick shout out out to a few of our fellow ‘Goats who travelled down to Chile to race the TransAndes Challenge a couple weeks ago.

Pat Doyle and Craig Marshall finished 3rd and 6th in their category while Rick Metzger finished 3rd in his category.

More information about this race can be found here: http://www.transandeschallenge.com/