Oregon Enduro Series Race #5 - The Finals - Recap
September 8th and 9th saw the culmination of 5-race series of 2012 Oregon Enduro Series that included a total of 25 stages that ranged in times from 3 to 16 minutes in length. The best combined times of all stages of the series crowned the series' winner. This final race of the 5-race series included a total of seven stages over two days. Saturday's three stages took place on Mt Hood with its dry, loose soil while Sunday's four stages were held on the tight, rocky and more technical Sandy Ridge trail network in the Mt. Hood Wilderness.
The Pro fields were again plentiful including around 40 men and over 10 women representing many Western states and Canadian Provinces.
The Pro classes may get most of the focus but the 'bread and butter' of these events are the Category 1,2 and 3 classes that include future pros, weekend warriors and everyone in between. Overall the Oregon Enduro Series attracted riders from 25 different states (including Hawaii) and 8 different countries.
Here are the final results for race #5:
Pro Men
1) Josh Carlson - GIANT Factory Off-road Team 44:38.2
2) Curtis Keene - Specialized/SRAM 45:34.6 +0:56.4
3) Matthew Slaven - Kona Factory 45:35.0 +0:56.8
4) Chris Johnston - Nomads 45:35.5 +0:57.3
5) Duncan Riffle - Dirt Norco 45:49.8 +1:11.6
Pro Women
1) Kelli Emmett - GIANT Factory Off-road Team 52:58.2
2) Carolynn Romaine - Bicycleworld.tv 55:08.8 +2:10.6
3) Alice Pennington - Kona 55:38.9 +2:40.7
4) Mary Moncorge - Santa Cruz Bikes/ Kali / Endura 55:45.3 +2:47.1
5) Lindsay Trimble - Rocky Mountain Bikes 56:06.4 +3:08.2
Category class results for series race #5:
Cat 1 Men (19 - 39) Olsson, Andy 47:04.1
Cat 1 Men (40+) Sloan, Brandon 48:16.6
Cat 2 Jr. Men (13 - 18 ) Nason, Winter 50:57.0
Cat 2 Men (19 - 39) Gustavson, Jon 51:05.6
Cat 2 Men (40+) Bergemann, Timmy 53:57.9
Cat 2/Cat 3 Women (35+) Armesto, Stephanie 1:03:53.6
Cat 2/Cat 3 Women 34- Ott, Christy 1:02:58.9
Cat 3 Men (open) Sprowl, Wade 52:24.6
Women Cat 1 (open) Sweitzer, Shana 55:17.5
Pro results for the overall Oregon Enduro Series:
Pro Men
1) Josh Carlson
2) Chris Johnston
3) Curtis Keene
4) Aaron Bradford
5) Matthew Slaven
Pro Women results for the overall Oregon Enduro Series
1) Kelli Emmett
2) Mary Moncorge-
3) Lindsay Trimble
4) Carolynn Romaine
5) Tina Brubaker
Category results for the Overall Oregon Enduro Series
Cat 1 Men (19 - 39) Olsson, Andy
Cat 1 Men (40+) Hutton, Dave
Cat 2 Jr. Men (13 - 18 ) Nason, Winter
Cat 2 Men (19 - 39) De Cordoba, Tony
Cat 2 Men (40+) Satterfield, Greg
Cat 2/Cat 3 Women (35+) Armesto, Stephanie
Cat 2/Cat 3 Women 34- Fellers, Kristen
Cat 3 Men (open) Finlayson, Steven
Women Cat 1 (open) Sweitzer, Shana
The race was also the final race of the national enduro series sanctioned by the North American Enduro Tour which included events at Crankworx Whistler, the Colorado Freeride Festival in Winter Park and Utah’s Canyons Resort in Park City.
Overall Results North American Enduro Tour (NAET)
Pro Men
1) Curtis Keene
2) Chris Johnston
3) Aaron Bradford
4) Dylan Wolsky
5) Josh Carlson
Pro Women
1) Mary Moncorge
2) Kelli Emmett
3) Lindsay Trimble
4) Carolyn Romaine
5) Tina Brubaker
Here's a note from Devon regarding the next year's event: "2013 we will have bigger courses...we'll go higher up! Five races...one new venue to replace Sisters. 3 one-day events and 2 three-day events. We will continue to build a fun festival atmosphere for racers, spectators and sponsora and draw the biggest names in the sport to race in the PNW
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For more race information check out the Oregon Enduro Web Site
For more information about the North American Enduro Tour click here
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Enduro style races with this many stages require a much higher level of logistics and planning than a typical DH race. The costs associated with this race are also very expensive (shuttles, land use permits, signs and equipment, food, port-a-john rentals, etc) All of this adds up quickly. Since the Oregon Enduro is relatively new, there was a respectable turnout, but not enough to be "raking in cash." The timing system is much more complex than a typical DH race with only 1 or 2 timed portions. Then take into account some of these races were conducted in areas with no wi-fi signal or even cell service. Imagine trying to combine all that data after the last stage of the day, and if something goes wrong, hand entering it into Excel.
Just giving you an inside perspective of what it takes to put the series on
Don't get me wrong, I love enduro racing, but for the privateer it is getting farther and farther out of reach. I would protest any race on a trail that I work on, maintain or build just for the pure fact that promoters are not going to go back an fix the damage done by racers.
Like or not, its the truth.
This debate could go on forever, anyone else care to get up on their soap box?
BTW...next year will have 3 one-day races and 2 two-day races....no three-day (unless you count a day for practice and/or a day to recover from the after parties!!)
The Glade and the other trails up there are AMAZING for Enduro racing (and I have a fair bit of a special interest seeing as I cut a good ammount of those trail during fire season over the last 15 years. Enjoy Mt. Biking in Oregon??? THank your Wildland FF's cause were the guys who cut every inch of trail on that mountain. The tril crews sure do an awesome job of making them rideable though aye. Good work guys)...
The Oregon Enduro has got to be one fo the best Enduro series in the country aye. I'm even MORE pissed I wasnt there cause I REALLY wanted to see Kintners Range 650B up close (I seriously think that bike would be THE best bike for that race...She just needs to run Nevegals on it and she wouldn't have had the flat problems
God Job guys, I'm glad to see Adam Milnor is still up there... makes me feel old as he was a wee little grom when I used to live in Govvy... Great guy who works hard as aye. Way to go Adam AND the rest of the trail crew. Wrd is we're gonna have a full blown "whistler Style" park at Timberline here in the near future and THAT is onna be awesome. GO OREGON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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