team news and views…
As the UK season enters those winter months Team Saab Salomon continue to seek out the sun as they travel to the United Arab Emirates’ second city of Abu Dhabi for the 2nd Edition of the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge http://www.abudhabi-adventure.com/.
This marks the adventure racing debut of female fell legend Angela Mudge. She joins AR stalwarts Ben Bardsley, Andy Symonds and Tom Owens for the December event. Team manager Tim Lloyd explains, “It won’t be best suited to our team as most of the running will be in the dessert and there is a lot of sea kayaking, but we are treating more as a fun event as it has been a long year, so we’re just hoping to enjoy the occasion and see how it goes”
With $236,000 of prize money on offer I’m sure that the team will be focused for that one!
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Record number 7 for Jebby!
Most notable recent performance must go to Rob Jebb, as he claimed a record 7th (count ‘em!) 3 Peaks cyclo-cross title.
He also broke the course record, held by former MTB global legend Tim Gould, so no mean feat. This will go down as one of the cycling performances of the year – full stop.
Speaking of his victory he said, “It was a great day, as ever. I couldn’t have wished for better. I didn’t have a puncture and I didn’t have any problems. It couldn’t have gone better.”
“I went really hard over Ingleborough and got a gap on Nick Craig, who was on my wheel. I didn’t kill myself on the descents, but I knew I had a chance at the record, so I kept the pressure on.”
A huge congratulations must go to Rob for this performance, also crowned English fell running champ and winning the Langdale Horseshoe race he has had yet another superb season.
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Recent race results have also seen other members of the team cleaning up in many areas and disciplines.
Tom Owens and Andy Symonds were equal 1st at the Saab Salomon Glasgow Turbo X race http://www.saabinmotion.co.uk/turboxtrails/.
Angela Mudge was 1st lady and Natalie White was 2nd. Nick Sharp was 2nd at the Saab Salomon Sandhurst Turbo X with an injury!
Natalie also won the Dunnerdale Fell Race and was on the winning team at the British relay championships.
Finally at the OMM (Original Mountain Marathon ) a few team athletes started and not a single athlete got lost or perished and their only confusion was why the media created such a frenzy. The less said about it on these pages the better!