The Philippine Outdoors

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I-On Mountainbike Race, the first mountainbike race held this year at San Mateo, Rizal. The race involves cross-country, downhill, dirtjump, and road racing with categories for every type of racers from beginners to professionals, from kids to adults, and for men and women. The event was successful as shown by the number of registered participants and spectators. The races were well represented nationally as riders as far as Baguio, Subic, Negros, and Cotabato converged in one area to race at their respective descipline.
I joined in Downhill-Executive. This category is for people aged 35 and above who loves the adrenalin rush. The downhill race started a bit late due to transponder problem, and we ended up using the stop watch instead to measure our time. That mistake can be forgiven as it is the first time we use it in our local race.
The first downhill category was released at lunch time, which made most of us hungry as we await for our turn. Still, the majority are quite happy with the race and that’s including me, of course. Perhaps, we’re just quite happy that a race was organized for us to compete and compare our capability with others. Though, there are things that needs to be improved if we want a race that is at par internationally.
As usual, Joey Barba got the best time for the downhill-open category with a time of 1:57:71(minutes:seconds:hundredths) followed by our National Youth member Scott Remi(1:58:37) and coach Eboy Farr(2:02:03).
Meanwhile, Another Joey (Rogers) was the king at Downhill-Novice category with a time of 2:06:74. Ex-pro Jay Teodoro got the best at Downhill-Executive category with a time of 2:18:96. Mark Gomez is the best among the young stallions at beginner category with a final run of 2:18:53.
For the complete race results, please visit the I-ON Extreme Mountainbike website and its multiply site for more photos…

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See poster for details or visit the ion extreme website.

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