Brazilian visas in hand, Team Canada is ready to tackle Rocky Man Brazil for the very first time!
An opportunity I obviously could not pass up on, Rocky Man Brazil is a team race with each person racing independently for the lowest combined team effort. There are twenty teams with six countries represented. All teams consist of five team members with one person needing to compete in two events. Teams can select which two events are covered by one person, and all but one team member must be from the team's country of origin.
Solo disciplines include: Surfing, SUP, Skateboard Mini-Ramp, Mountain Biking, Male and Female Mountain Running.
Team disciplines, to be completed side by side include: an outrigger canoe paddle and a road/beach/trail run.
All racing takes place on Saturday, November 8th.
Team Canada consists of:
Anne-Marie Madden - Woman's Mountain Run
Is a trail and road runner from Vancouver,
BC, Canada. She is a member of the Arc’teryx trail running team and
winner of the 2014 Canadian Mountain Running Championships. In 2014 she
won six trail races ranging from 13 to 60km, set multiple new course records
and achieved new personal bests on the road in the 10km (35:03) and Half
Marathon (1:16:35). Her upcoming 2014 races include RockyMan in Brazil
and the North Face Endurance Challenge 50mile race in California.
Gary Robbins - Men's Mountain Run
Likes to run, preferably in mountains and over super technical terrain.
If I find any kind of "follow along" details I'll be sure to link them. Wish us luck! Go Canada Go!
An opportunity I obviously could not pass up on, Rocky Man Brazil is a team race with each person racing independently for the lowest combined team effort. There are twenty teams with six countries represented. All teams consist of five team members with one person needing to compete in two events. Teams can select which two events are covered by one person, and all but one team member must be from the team's country of origin.
Solo disciplines include: Surfing, SUP, Skateboard Mini-Ramp, Mountain Biking, Male and Female Mountain Running.
Team disciplines, to be completed side by side include: an outrigger canoe paddle and a road/beach/trail run.
All racing takes place on Saturday, November 8th.
Team Canada consists of:
Anne-Marie Madden - Woman's Mountain Run
Greg Day - Mountain Bike
Lives in Squamish, BC Canada, and has been a racing
bikes for the better part of 2 decades. He has spent the last 5 years racing on
the Canadian Professional Rocky Mountain Factory Team, and will continue with
the RMB squad in the 2015 race season. Greg has taken the overall BC Bike Race
Team of Two Pro Men title in both the 2013 and the 2014 season with two of his
Rocky Mountain Factory Teammates. Greg’s focuses on mountain bike stage races,
and single day marathon races. He enjoys longer more technical racing, and is
happiest when he has two wheels beneath him.
Keegan Sauder - Skateboard Mini-Ramp
Born Nelson, BC. Skating since he was ten years old. Lives in Oakland, CA and is a full time student/nerd/skater.
Andrew Logreco - Surf - SUP
Was born and
breed in Encinitas, California. He is 30 years old and for the majority of his life he has been in and round the ocean doing more less all of the above-
surfing, swimming, paddleboarding, stand-up paddling, running and so on... In
turn he became an ocean lifeguard at the age of 18 in San Diego, California.
Around the age of 22 he moved to Oahu, Hawaii to continue his lifeguarding.
Gary Robbins - Men's Mountain Run
Likes to run, preferably in mountains and over super technical terrain.
Born and raised in eastern Canada in Newfoundland I moved
west in search of mountains in 96 and never looked back. I have called British
Columbia home for more than a decade now after a lengthy stop in the Alberta
Rockies along the way.
After dabbling in expedition adventure racing for many years
I moved onto ultra distance trail running in 2008 where I truly found my niche.
If I find any kind of "follow along" details I'll be sure to link them. Wish us luck! Go Canada Go!
Saturday, Nov. 8th
7h - 9h30: Surf
8h - 11h: MTB
8h45 - 9h20: Skate – free training
9h30 - 13h30: Skate
10h - 16h: Men’s and Women’s mountain running
14h - 15h15: SUP
16h30 - 17h45: Outrigger Canoe
18h - 19h45: Team Running
20h: Award Ceremony and Closing Party