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From: ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Information Exchange Forum
[mailto:CO-...@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tate Mitchell
Sent: 27 April 2012 2:29
To: CO-...@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
Subject: [CO-CURE] NOT: Round-The-Clock Ride
The 3rd annual "24 Hours in the Enchanted Forest" takes place on June
16 and 17, 2012 with 25% of the proceeds going to the CFIDS Association of
America's research program.
http://www.ziarides.com/24hitef/
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http://www.abqjournal.com/sports/2012/04/26/ride.html
Round-The-Clock Ride
By Jessica Dyer / Journal Staff Writer on Apr. 26, 2012
It's a race that attracts national-caliber athletes and teams with names
like "Clown College" and "Whiskey Club," a competition where honors are
bestowed not just upon the fastest riders but also the cleverest campers.
Participants in 24 Hours in the Enchanted Forest get "flowing brews"
with their registration fees, but also a chance to ride an event that USA
Cycling has deemed worthy of the 2013 and 2014 Mountain Bike 24-Hour
National Championships.
The third-year endurance mountain biking race - scheduled to run from noon
June 16 to noon June 17 in the Zuni Mountains near Gallup - may be growing
in profile and prestige, but organizers want it to remain true to its
relatively relaxed roots.
"It's the people out there to have fun that set the atmosphere for the
race," race director Lindsay Mapes said. "We try to keep it grass roots and
casual and not too competitive, because it can get too serious."
On the spectrum of 24HITEF competitors, Karen Rishel would be classified as
one of the more accomplished. A Las Cruces-based physician who now teaches
at New Mexico State University, Rishel has been cycling competitively for
about a decade. The 47-year-old now races as a professional and in 2010
placed second among all female single-speed racers at the 24-Hour National
Championships in Moab, Utah.
Rishel logs her training data, has been known to read up on the
endurance-biking research and has learned through participation in about a
dozen 24-hour races that success is as much about mental toughness and
preparedness as it is about physical prowess.
"When you're doing a 24-hour race, you need to strategically plan your
nutrition, lighting, how long you'll spend in the pit, your clothing
changes," she said. "You have everything laid out and planned."
In these races, the goal is to complete as many laps on the course as
possible during a 24-hour period. The 24HITEF race takes place on a 16-mile
loop that features 1,344 feet of climbing and where the elevation ranges
from 7,600 to 8,350 feet. (Upon announcing it as the location of the 2013
and 2014 national championships, USA Cycling's National Events Director
Kelli Lusk said in a news release the course "will certainly challenge the
best endurance riders in the country.")
But Rishel, who won last year's 24HITEF coed duo category with her husband,
Alan, gravitates to 24-hour races as much for the camaraderie as the
challenge, and she can appreciate the fact that not everyone sharing the
course is ultra-competitive.
"(The sport offers) a sense of community and involvement, and you just have
a great time, and it's not always about going out there and winning," she
said. "A lot of times, it's going out there and talking with people and
sharing.
"It's fun to win but not necessary."
Judd Rohwer of the East Mountains will be part of 24HITEF for the third
straight year, but he's not expecting a win. He and a group of friends
compete as solo riders under the nonthreatening team name "Back of the Pack
Racing" and aren't among the sport's elite. They still log thousands of
training miles annually and set ambitious goals - Rohwer aspires to cover
200 miles during this year's 24HITEF and ride at least 22 of the 24 hours -
but Back of the Pack members tend to prioritize fun, as evidenced by their
nontraditional racing apparel.
"We mainly wear 100-percent cotton plaid (shirts) and cargo shorts - no
fancy lycra is allowed," said Rohwer, a 38-year-old engineer at Sandia
National Labs, who has completed approximately 20 24-hour races in the past
three years."We get a few weird looks at races, to say the least."
Back of the Pack members were among about 320 participants during last
year's 24HITEF and approximately 240 in 2010.
Solo categories remain the race's most popular, but many people enter as
part of a team. The five-member and 10-member ("corporate") categories are
booming, Mapes said, and many riders see the race mostly as a chance to camp
and have a good time.
That festive spirit is apparent after each lap on the mostly single-track
course, Rohwer said.
"Every time you come around through the staging area, it's like a party's
going on," Rohwer said. "The whole place is alive and you get kind of
psyched up to go out again."
As part of the convivial spirit, there is even a contest for the best "pit,"
a personal/team rest stop along the course that riders establish before the
race and then use to sleep, recharge and refuel during the event. Since very
few of the solo entrants - "maybe two,"
Mapes said - are hard-core enough to actually ride for 24 hours without
stopping, the pits tend to get a lot of use. And some people like to make
the most of their mountain stomping grounds.
"Last year we had a guy bring out a couch and a chandelier, which is really
cool, because it's right on the course in the center of the action," Mapes
said.
For even more casual riders and kids, the race offers the "Enchanted Land"
category that takes place on a shorter loop and doesn't run during the
overnight hours. It's a fun-centric division that Mapes modeled on board
games like CandyLand and Chutes and Ladders. Riders can rack up the laps
thanks to two cut-off options: one in which a shorter lap is granted for
correctly answering a New Mexico trivia question and another where the
course is shortened by winning a game of chance.
There are also a host of other activities lined up for noncompetitors,
including live music, wine tasting and a special kids race.
Twenty-five percent of the race proceeds go to the Chronic Fatigue and
Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America.
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political opinion expressed in Co-Cure posts, and we urge readers to
research the various opinions available before assuming any one
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From: ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Information Exchange Forum
[mailto:CO-...@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU] On Behalf Of Tate Mitchell
Sent: 27 April 2012 2:29
To: CO-...@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
Subject: [CO-CURE] NOT: Round-The-Clock Ride
The 3rd annual "24 Hours in the Enchanted Forest" takes place on June
16 and 17, 2012 with 25% of the proceeds going to the CFIDS Association of
America's research program.
http://www.ziarides.com/24hitef/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
http://www.abqjournal.com/sports/2012/04/26/ride.html
Round-The-Clock Ride
By Jessica Dyer / Journal Staff Writer on Apr. 26, 2012
It's a race that attracts national-caliber athletes and teams with names
like "Clown College" and "Whiskey Club," a competition where honors are
bestowed not just upon the fastest riders but also the cleverest campers.
Participants in 24 Hours in the Enchanted Forest get "flowing brews"
with their registration fees, but also a chance to ride an event that USA
Cycling has deemed worthy of the 2013 and 2014 Mountain Bike 24-Hour
National Championships.
The third-year endurance mountain biking race - scheduled to run from noon
June 16 to noon June 17 in the Zuni Mountains near Gallup - may be growing
in profile and prestige, but organizers want it to remain true to its
relatively relaxed roots.
"It's the people out there to have fun that set the atmosphere for the
race," race director Lindsay Mapes said. "We try to keep it grass roots and
casual and not too competitive, because it can get too serious."
On the spectrum of 24HITEF competitors, Karen Rishel would be classified as
one of the more accomplished. A Las Cruces-based physician who now teaches
at New Mexico State University, Rishel has been cycling competitively for
about a decade. The 47-year-old now races as a professional and in 2010
placed second among all female single-speed racers at the 24-Hour National
Championships in Moab, Utah.
Rishel logs her training data, has been known to read up on the
endurance-biking research and has learned through participation in about a
dozen 24-hour races that success is as much about mental toughness and
preparedness as it is about physical prowess.
"When you're doing a 24-hour race, you need to strategically plan your
nutrition, lighting, how long you'll spend in the pit, your clothing
changes," she said. "You have everything laid out and planned."
In these races, the goal is to complete as many laps on the course as
possible during a 24-hour period. The 24HITEF race takes place on a 16-mile
loop that features 1,344 feet of climbing and where the elevation ranges
from 7,600 to 8,350 feet. (Upon announcing it as the location of the 2013
and 2014 national championships, USA Cycling's National Events Director
Kelli Lusk said in a news release the course "will certainly challenge the
best endurance riders in the country.")
But Rishel, who won last year's 24HITEF coed duo category with her husband,
Alan, gravitates to 24-hour races as much for the camaraderie as the
challenge, and she can appreciate the fact that not everyone sharing the
course is ultra-competitive.
"(The sport offers) a sense of community and involvement, and you just have
a great time, and it's not always about going out there and winning," she
said. "A lot of times, it's going out there and talking with people and
sharing.
"It's fun to win but not necessary."
Judd Rohwer of the East Mountains will be part of 24HITEF for the third
straight year, but he's not expecting a win. He and a group of friends
compete as solo riders under the nonthreatening team name "Back of the Pack
Racing" and aren't among the sport's elite. They still log thousands of
training miles annually and set ambitious goals - Rohwer aspires to cover
200 miles during this year's 24HITEF and ride at least 22 of the 24 hours -
but Back of the Pack members tend to prioritize fun, as evidenced by their
nontraditional racing apparel.
"We mainly wear 100-percent cotton plaid (shirts) and cargo shorts - no
fancy lycra is allowed," said Rohwer, a 38-year-old engineer at Sandia
National Labs, who has completed approximately 20 24-hour races in the past
three years."We get a few weird looks at races, to say the least."
Back of the Pack members were among about 320 participants during last
year's 24HITEF and approximately 240 in 2010.
Solo categories remain the race's most popular, but many people enter as
part of a team. The five-member and 10-member ("corporate") categories are
booming, Mapes said, and many riders see the race mostly as a chance to camp
and have a good time.
That festive spirit is apparent after each lap on the mostly single-track
course, Rohwer said.
"Every time you come around through the staging area, it's like a party's
going on," Rohwer said. "The whole place is alive and you get kind of
psyched up to go out again."
As part of the convivial spirit, there is even a contest for the best "pit,"
a personal/team rest stop along the course that riders establish before the
race and then use to sleep, recharge and refuel during the event. Since very
few of the solo entrants - "maybe two,"
Mapes said - are hard-core enough to actually ride for 24 hours without
stopping, the pits tend to get a lot of use. And some people like to make
the most of their mountain stomping grounds.
"Last year we had a guy bring out a couch and a chandelier, which is really
cool, because it's right on the course in the center of the action," Mapes
said.
For even more casual riders and kids, the race offers the "Enchanted Land"
category that takes place on a shorter loop and doesn't run during the
overnight hours. It's a fun-centric division that Mapes modeled on board
games like CandyLand and Chutes and Ladders. Riders can rack up the laps
thanks to two cut-off options: one in which a shorter lap is granted for
correctly answering a New Mexico trivia question and another where the
course is shortened by winning a game of chance.
There are also a host of other activities lined up for noncompetitors,
including live music, wine tasting and a special kids race.
Twenty-five percent of the race proceeds go to the Chronic Fatigue and
Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America.
---------------------------------------------
Send posts to CO-...@listserv.nodak.edu
Unsubscribe at http://www.co-cure.org/unsub.htm
---------------------------------------------
Co-Cure's purpose is to provide information from across the spectrum of
opinion concerning medical, research and political aspects of ME/CFS and/or
FMS. We take no position on the validity of any specific scientific or
political opinion expressed in Co-Cure posts, and we urge readers to
research the various opinions available before assuming any one
interpretation is definitive. The Co-Cure website <www.co-cure.org> has a
link to our complete archive of posts as well as articles of central
importance to the issues of our community.
---------------------------------------------
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