Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Rusch wins 24-hour race in Wisconsin

For mountain bikers


Chalk up another championship for 38-year-old Ketchum-based adventure and endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch.

On Sunday Rusch won the 24-hour Women's Open Solo class of the 2006 USA Cycling 24-Hour National Mountain Bike Championships held in Nine Mile County Forest near Wausau, Wisc.

Rusch completed 14 laps or 186.2 miles in 18 hours, 47 minutes and 38 seconds. Her first lap was 1.11:44 and her 14th lap was clocked in 1.31:41 for an average lap time of 2.30:32. She was the best of 13 women.

In seventh place out of 26 bikers in the 24-hour Men's Open Solo class was Ketchum's Greg Martin, who completed 14 laps and 186.2 miles in 18 hours, 31 minutes and 5 seconds. The winner, Chris Eatough, rode 17 laps or 226.1 miles in 19.26:55.

Rusch had tuned up for the Wisconsin nationals by winning the NORBA 24-hour Washington State Championships at Spokane May 27-28, going 18 laps in 24 hours in that event.

With her Wisconsin victory Rusch qualified for the eighth annual World Solo 24 Hours of Adrenalin Championships Oct. 6-8, 2006 at Conyers, Ga., site of mountain biking's debut as an Olympic sport 10 years ago.




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