Sentence examples for mountain race from inspiring English sources
More importantly, each year it hosts the Obudu Mountain Race, a 13km uphill run.
For many, tackling a mountain race lies in knowing, or rather not knowing, what will greet you at the top.
The first race on the 2013 skyrunning calendar is Transvulcania, an 83km mountain race on La Palma in the Canaries.
MAGAZINE An article on March 24 about the Spanish ultrarunner Kilian Jornet Burgada misstated the time it takes for Jornet to run a short, vertical-kilometer mountain race.
No, this wasn't part of the latest craze for minimalist footwear; it was the Obudu Mountain Race in Cross River State, Nigeria.
Nearing his 39th birthday, he won only the familiar Pikes Peak Ascent, with a time 22 minutes behind his own record, and placed 33rd at another mountain race.
Kirk competed in 68 consecutive gruelling Dipsea Mountain Races between 1930 and 2002.
The premise is simple: ride a brakeless bike down a very steep mountain, racing against other equally foolhardy bikers.
Last year, Mr. Cutler, 44, and his crew founded Running Wild, which is now in its second season of hosting a series of six mountain races.
He told her about skyrunning – "where earth and sky meet", as he poetically put it – and his plans for a series of mountain races – the Skyrunner trophy.
Mohamad: After I'd participated in the mountain races like the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) [in the Alps] and the Diagonale des Fous [on Réunion], I asked myself why the Moroccan Atlas did not have a similar trail race.
