Photo Recap: 2014 OverMountain Enduro at Highland Mountain

Aug 26, 2014 at 6:46

by Highland Mountain Bike Park

The 2014 OverMountain Enduro saw nearly 200 racers descend upon Highland Mountain Bike Park's fresh cut race tracks and bikepark trails. Sunny skies, stoked riders, and big prizes on the line set the stage for an awesome day of racing. The first stop on the Triple Crown Eastern Enduro Series was a rider favorite, boasting a course many called challenging and humbling, but most of all fun. Post-race riders relaxed with free beverages in the Giant beer garden, the perfect venue to share their stories of battle from the day! When it was all said and done, MTB hall of famer Marla Streb took the Pro Women's win, and Seamus Powell rode to the top step for the Pro Men. The Highland crew and Triple Crown Enduro Series send a huge thank you to Giant Bicycles, Louis Garneau, Liv, G-Form, Thule, Kingdom Trails and the Village Sport Shop for making this event possible. See you next year racers!

2014 OverMountain Enduro at Highland Mountain

Knight Ide on Stage 1.

The lovely Pro Ladies 2nd place finisher Kimberley Quinlan.

Stage 3's Reef Drop was a hit with the spectators.

The Stage 4 "rock falls."

Yokuls...

Family day at the park.

Best accommodations in town.

Scoping the day's racing.

Stage 1- Faux Pine's rock garden.

Jeff Lenosky on stage one.

Knight Ide and Mike Mader ready to depart on Stage 2.

Reef Dropping.

Rock falls on Stage 4.

Chase is always pumped to be at his home mountain.

Timing is serious business.

The Big Lenosky and lil' Lenosky tandem ride.

Hashtag that brah!

Not everybody survived unscathed.

When I grow up I'm gonna be a...

Mountain bike royalty and ladies pro first place winner Marla Streb!

The boss-man himself, Mr. Mark Hayes.

Amateur Women - 1. Clarrissa Finks, 2. Kelly Ault, 3. Rachel Brown.

Men 18-Under - 1. Alan Worth, 2. Robert Shepard, 3. Jack Perry.

Men 19-29 - Travis Nevins, 2. Michael Wilbur, 3. Saben Rossi.

Men 30-39 - 1. Rob Westover, 2. Jarrod Ogden, 3. Jonathan Dube.

Men 40+ - 1. William Johnson, 2. Duane Call, 3. Stephane Simard.

Pro Women's Podium - 1. Marla Streb, 2. Kimberley Quinlan, 3. Lauren Petersen.

Pro Men's Podium - 1. Seamus Powell, 2. Peter Ostroski, 3. Kyle Warner.

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Photos: Paul Kelly and Ryan Thibault

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25 Comments

projectnortheast (Aug 28, 2014 at 11:28)

I mean i get your point.. I guess when I see a description of a race in a series and it says racers should expect to have to climb 10-20% of the overall drop in a stages vertical and its literally under 5% on every stage and some stages could be said that it was almost 0 I dont know if its really my think. Multistage DH race with trail bikes more like it?

whitebullit (Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10)

cool to see a drop in an enduro race, highland rules!

bemery (Aug 27, 2014 at 10:22)

glad I sent it without looking at the size, might have backed out!

projectnortheast (Aug 28, 2014 at 9:31)

I've looked at that drop many times and didn't hit it till this race.. pretty smooth really.

scotttherider FL (Sep 3, 2014 at 16:26)

First time I hit that trail blind on a rental 7" bike and thought with the wooden take off it was a roll down....ended up bender hacking it to make it to the tranny....didn't make that mistake again and carried speed after that. Did they race all of threshold as a race stage?

bemery (Sep 3, 2014 at 21:00)

The stage was ODB to Threshold

scotttherider FL (Sep 3, 2014 at 21:24)

That would be a badass stage but that sucks they cut the upper part of threshold out that's the best part of the trail. The next 2 times I had gone up there I was riding that trail on my intense 6.6. But odb is still a fun trail!

fredro (Aug 27, 2014 at 12:09)

is it me or does aaron chase look like jesse pinkman from breaking bad?!?

zalgrath (Aug 28, 2014 at 11:35)

I thought that when the first season of BB came out!

bemery (Aug 26, 2014 at 19:35)

Did Paul or Ryan take more photos? Will they be putting them up for sale?

meraki-trips (Aug 28, 2014 at 12:09)

Stage one and two had lots of pedaling in them, stage three and four were just so much fun to ride. Over all I thought the course this year was amazing. Nicely done Highland!

scotttherider FL (Sep 3, 2014 at 16:28)

What trails did the course comprise of? I see threshold but was that the only gnarly trail?

greeek32 (Aug 26, 2014 at 18:46)

anyone see that a 57 yr old Matt Sebas took 5th? respect.

bemery (Aug 26, 2014 at 19:31)

He's 25

greeek32 (Aug 26, 2014 at 19:57)

bummer

bemery (Aug 26, 2014 at 20:08)

That would be crazy! Still sick though, somebody get that guy a sponsor!

scott-townes (Aug 26, 2014 at 11:18)

Looked sick! way to kelly rippa Trav! fackin killed it.

projectnortheast (Aug 28, 2014 at 9:36)

Neg rep me all you want but I thought the race track this year was more of just straight up DH runs and liked last year's track a lot better. It was a downhillers course for sure.. If that's the future of Enduro I don't know if I'll continue racing...

C9H13NO3 (Aug 28, 2014 at 11:18)

…but, that's what Enduro is supposed to be! www.pinkbike.com/news/opinion-dear-america-2014.html

projectnortheast (Aug 28, 2014 at 11:59)

I get your point.. but when a race description of a race in the series says 10-20% climbing of a segments total vertical should be expected in a stage and this race probably had less than 5% on most and some had probably 0.. I just don't know if it's my thing. Could just call it a multistage DH race on trailbikes?

scott-townes (Aug 28, 2014 at 15:10)

manchvegas- enduro racing is literally supposed to be DH runs but climbing to get to the top of each stage... it should be gnarly and I applaud Highlands for running it right. It's not their fault you had the wrong perception of what enduro should be.

projectnortheast (Aug 29, 2014 at 4:25)

I get it.. if that's the case then I don't think it's the racing format I'm looking for. If you had ridden the course last year you would know it was totally different. Average course time this year was 17min. last year it was close to 25. You had to be in a lot better pedal shape last year with the same amount of vert but some of the stages were twice as long. Some of the specials last year were over 11-12 min for pro times.. this year the longest one was 3-4 min's for the pros. Sorry, neg rep me all you want as an amateur that's never raced DH, last years course was way better

bemery (Aug 29, 2014 at 5:20)

I also signed up with a course similar to last year's in mind. Don't get me wrong, I thought the course was wicked fun this year! I love the gnarly-gnar. But on a course like that people like manchvegas and myself just can't compete with those who have downhill racing backgrounds(especially when there's virtually no time limit on getting to the top of the next stage.

And Scott, nobody is right or wrong here about what enduro is supposed to be, but I'll excuse the passive-aggressiveness since we did hijack your comment to make this thread

sublimaze (Aug 26, 2014 at 14:13)

Corner compound FTW.

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