GRETCHEN REEVES
Event: Ultimate Mountain Challenge
Hometown: Augusta, Georgia
The scoop: Reeves, a professional cross-country mountain biker
for Tokyo
Joe's, was the winner of last year's Ultimate Mountain Challenge at
the Teva
Mountain Games.
She's a formidable endurance racer, with accomplishments that
include winning
the 2002 and 2003 Transalp Challenge titles and the 2004 and 2005
National
Marathon cross-country titles.
She started mountain biking while studying at the University of
Georgia at Athens
and moved to Vail following graduation, where she turned pro in
1997. She still
lives nearby in Edwards, and you may have seen her racing with
other local
pros as part of the Nike/Beaver Creek adventure race team. She's
also an avid
telemark skier, snowshoer and backpacker.
You didn't know... She's always loved the Georgia Bulldogs.
Growing
up, her dream was to try out for the football team and be a running
back like
Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. She had to settle for being
a Bulldogs
cheerleader which, she says, still ended up being a lot of
fun.
GRETCHEN REEVES TMG SCORE SHEET:
3rd Place - 2011 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2010 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
2nd Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2007 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
JOSIAH MIDDAUGH
Event: Ultimate Mountain Challenge
Hometown: East Jordan, Michigan
The scoop: Middaugh, winner of last year's Ultimate Mountain
Challenge, is probably best known as an accomplished XTERA
triathlete
who won the national championships in 2004, 2005 and 2007. He also
is
a regular on the podium of the National Snowshoe Championship and
at
endurance mountain biking events.
Middaugh started out as a cross-country runner, competing as a
Division I
cross-country and track athlete at Central Michigan University. His
distance
running background was the perfect fit for multi-sport racing, but
the
swimming took years to develop. Middaugh and his wife, Ingrid,
moved to
Colorado in 2000, where Middaugh races, trains and works as a
personal
trainer and coach.
You didn't know... When Middaugh is not training, his favorite
activities
are being with his two sons, Sullivan and Porter, riding plastic
bikes and
baking cookies.
JOSIAH MIDDAUGH TMG SCORE SHEET:
1st Place - 2011 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2010 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2007 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
MIKE KLOSER:
MIKE KLOSER'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
3rd Place - 2010 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
4th Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
2nd Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2006 Adventure Sprint Race (team)
1st Place - 2005 Adventure Sprint Race (team)
SARI ANDERSON:
Event: Ultimate Mountain Challenge
Age: 32
Hometown: Carbondale, CO
Website: www.sarianderson.com
The scoop: Sari is a professional multi-sport athlete who
competes in everything from mountain biking, to trail running to
snowshoe racing and ski mountaineering. She won the 2009 Ultimate
Mountain Challenge and placed second in 2008. She took last year
off to have her second child and will be looking to return to the
podium in 2011.
Sari was a member of Team Nike for several years when they
dominated adventure races around the globe and in 2006, she was
part of the Nike team that claimed the Adventure Racing World
Championships. Sari won the National Mountain Bike Marathon
Championship in 2007 and the 24-hour Mountain Bike National
Championships in 2010 as part of a co-ed team. She also won the
inaugural Winter Xterra World Championship in 2007 and in 2011 she
finished second at the Ski Mountaineering National
Championships. In the May 2011 issue of Outside Magazine,
Sari was named one of America's "fittest real athletes."
You didn't know...Sari is a part-time athlete and a full-time
mother of two. The bulk of her training is done with her kids in a
Chariot stroller, whether skiing, running or riding with them in
tow. Sari is scared of heights and addicted to Nutella.
SARI ANDERSON'S TMG SCORE SHEET:
2nd Place - 2011 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2009 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
2nd Place - 2008 Ultimate Mountain Challenge
1st Place - 2006 Adventure Sprint Race (team)
1st Place - 2005 Adventure Sprint Race (team)