Team Balance Bar Crowned 2000 Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series National Champions.Sports Editors LOS ANGELES--(BW SportsWire)--Nov. 1, 2000 Trio Wins Series Final in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Cap a Sensational Season of Adventure Racing; Series Continues to Grow With 8,000 Participants in Eight Series Events Team Balance Bar (Bob Schulz Robert L. Schulz, a political activist living in Queensbury, New York, is the founder of the We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, a non-profit education and research organization with the declared mission "to protect and defend individual Rights as guaranteed by from San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Corky cork·y adj. cork·i·er, cork·i·est 1. Of or resembling cork. 2. Informal Lively; buoyant. cork Ewing from San Diego and Sylvia Corbett from Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Flor.) won the Series Final on Oct. 22 at Orchard Beach Orchard Beach may refer to:
In the first-ever point series, Team Balance Bar won five of the eight events to finish with 844 points, outdistancing Team Red Bull (Andy Petranek, Jenny Wood and Darren Wood Darren Wood (born 9 June 1964 in Scarborough) is a retired English footballer who played as a full-back. Wood began his career with Middlesbrough, making 101 league appearances between 1981 and 1984. from Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, ), who finished second in the coed division with 707 points when taking second in the New York event. Team Fogdog fog·dog n. A bright or clear spot that appears in breaking fog. [From the fact that it accompanies fog as a dog accompanies its owner.] (Doug Crytzer, Toby Angrove and Suzan Falvey from Pittsburgh) finished third with 499 points; Team Exide Batteries (Butch Ulrich, Cassy Byrne and Steve Kramer from Reading, PA) finished fourth with 491 points; and Team Hi-Tec (Karen Lundgren, David Kelly and Will Burkhart) finished fifth with 423 points. Team Balance Bar led the New York race virtually wire-to-wire, beginning with Special Test No. 1, the four-legged Grand Prix Start, and continuing with the two three-mile trail runs, two six-mile mountain bike segments, and a 1.5-mile kayak paddle, in which the teams were only allowed one paddle. Among other special tests included in the New York event were orienteering orienteering Cross-country footrace in which each participant uses a map and compass to navigate between checkpoints along an unfamiliar course. Introduced in Sweden in 1918, it later spread throughout Europe. World championships have been held since 1966. and the human ladder climb. The grand finale of special tests included the Ranger Weave (teams had to get up and over the structure while weaving over and under in alternating fashion), the Super Slippery Mountain, which was mentioned by many participants as the best special test of the season (teams had to go down an oil-coated 12-foot wall, and up-and-over a second oil-coated 12-foot wall), and the Kimms Game, in which teams were shown seven objects for seven seconds and then had to recite back the seven objects, or be forced to repeat the Super Slippery Mountain. All totaled, the 2000 Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series had over 8,000 participants in the eight race series, with six of the eight events selling out with well over 300 three-person teams.
2000 Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series Results:
Date Site Winning Team
May 21 Los Angeles, CA Team Balance Bar (Bob Schulz, Corky Ewing,
Sylvia Corbett)
June 4 Miami, FL Team Balance Bar (Bob Schulz, Corky Ewing,
Sylvia Corbett)
June 18 Atlanta, GA Team Exide Batteries (Butch Ulrich, Cassy
Bynre, Steve Kramer)
July 16 Dallas, TX Team Hi-Tec (Karen Lundgren,
Will Burkhart, Jason Poole)
Aug. 19 Sacramento, CA Team Balance Bar (Bob Schulz, Corky Ewing,
Sylvia Corbett)
Sept. 9 Hartford, CT Team Balance Bar (Bob Schulz, Corky Ewing,
Sylvia Corbett)
Oct. 1 Pittsburgh, PA Team Exide Batteries (Butch Ulrich, Cassy
Bynre, Steve Kramer)
Oct. 22 New York, NY Team Balance Bar (Bob Schulz, Corky Ewing,
Sylvia Corbett)
"On behalf of Hi-Tec Sports and MESP MESP Michigan Education Savings Plan MESP Mesoderm Posterior MESP Minimum Ethanol Selling Price MESP Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública (Brasil) MESP Matrimonial Early Settlement Panel MESP Mental Emotional State or Process , I would like to thank all of the racers, park officials, support staff and volunteers who made the 2000 Hi-Tec Adventure our best season ever," said Michael Epstein, event producer and president of MESP. "We look forward to an awesome 2001 with another eight-race Series, including outstanding courses, and brand-new fun and challenging special tests." The final three races in the 2000 Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series will be televised on the Outdoor Life Network at the following times: Hartford race -- Nov. 1 at 9 pm (ET/PT); Pittsburgh race -- Nov. 29 at 9 pm (ET/PT); and the New York race -- Dec. 20 at 9 pm (ET/PT). For further information about the sport of adventure racing, check out www.usaar.net. |
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