Last weekend Cedric Wane of Papeete, Tahiti and Tess Amer took home the amateur titles at Beaver Creek. The 24-year-old Amer from Boulder, Colorado had the fastest women’s time of the day in 2:37:21, however, due to the two-minute start time difference between the pro women’s swim wave and the amateur women’s start, she crossed the finish line in 2nd.

“I didn’t expect that at all,” said Amer.  “I haven’t done a tri in like three years.  I graduated CU in 2013, when I was the president of the tri club.  I’ve been mountain biking but not putting all three together.  And I just signed up last night.  It turned out well, it was good.  I guess I should go pro and go to Maui now.”

In Alaska, Will Ross and Megan Chelf took impressive wins at XTERRA Hammerman. Ross, 27, from Anchorage won his third-straight and seventh overall Hammerman title while Chelf, 29, of Anchorage by way of Wisconsin placed sixth overall, roughly 20 minutes ahead of women’s runner-up Corrie Smith.

Nearly 4500 miles away in upstate New York Daryl Weaver of Lititz, PA and Kelli Montgomery of Wallingford, CT took top honors at XTERRA Sky High. These wins continue an impressive run of results for both athletes. Weaver won his 2nd overall race on the year while Montgomery took her third with both holding commanding leads in their XTERRA America Tour regional division ranking.

You can view the latest XTERRA America Tour results and rankings here.

COMING UP

This weekend we’re off to Ionia, Michigan for XTERRA Ionia where well-established mountain bike single track and rail trails of Ionia State Recreation Area await you. With a new relay team option this year and their duathlon event there’s fun for everyone. Race day registration is available.

Next week XTERRA returns the Centennial State of Colorado for XTERRA Aspen Valley on July 30th where race director Lance Panigutti says there’s, “more wood and custom features on the bike and run course than you can imagine!” Check out that wooden berm in the featured photo above and check out this race for a one-of-a-kind experience.

XTERRA Panther Creek on July 31st in Morristown, TN will test your will and endurance as you navigate the rugged hills of East Tennessee. It’s also one of the final three Southeast regional races on the 2016 schedule offering up valuable tour points which will award regional champs an invitation to race at the XTERRA World Championship in Maui.

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