Monthly Archives: February 2009

GOODE Skis to Race in XTERRA World Championships

OGDEN, UT – XTERRA returns to Snowbasin Resort and the high-adventure recreation capital of Ogden, Utah for the second annual XTERRA Winter World Championships and accompanying festivities on March 7-8, 2009.

The XTERRA Winter World Championships is a multisport race that combines 10-kilometers of mountain biking on hard packed snow with 5km of snow running, 5km of snowshoeing, and 8km of randonee ski mountaineering.

This year’s event, which features $10,000 in prize money to the fastest men and women, is set for a 10 a.m. start on Sunday, March 8, 2009. GOODE will have a display booth during the XTERRA event.

GOODE Skis is sponsoring last year’s 1st and 2nd place finishers, Brian Smith (Gunnison, CO) and Josiah Middaugh (Vail, CO) with their ultra-lightweight randonee race skis.

GOODE  is the first and only company to totally integrate Carbon Fiber Composite technology into snow skis. The pure Carbon Fiber construction makes GOODE Skis the industry’s lightest while still having the highest flex/torsion ratios. At 1/2 the weight, GOODE Skis have twice the physical properties of conventional fiberglass / wood skis.

Schedule Released For GOODE Nationals

The tournament schedule for the 2009 GOODE Water Ski National Championships, presented by Speedo, is now available. The 67th annual event, the world’s largest three-event water ski tournament, will take place Aug. 11-15 at the Ski Club of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, FL. To view or download the schedule, click here (PDF).

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More than 800 of the nation’s top water ski athletes from across the United States will compete for national titles in slalom, tricks, jumping and overall in respective age divisions and two Open divisions. Advancement to the national championships is earned through placement on the national rankings’ list for respective divisions.

In addition to the Nationals, the fourth annual Big Dawg Slalom Championship will be held as a separate sanctioned event at Okeeheelee Park on Aug. 13 and 14. Qualifying for the championship will be held at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13 on the North-South Slalom Lake. The 16-skier head-to-head finals will be held under the lights on Friday, Aug. 14, on the East-West Trick Lake. The start time for the finals is to be announced.

GOODE Ski Technologies is proud to again be the Title Sponsor of the World’s largest water ski tournament.

Brian Smith Wins Second COSMIC Event

Hey Dave,

I won the second Cosmic event this past weekend. 

I was able to stay ahead of Pete Swenson, organizer of the series and past national champion.  I am really pumped to stay on top. 

The GOODE Rando skis are awesome and continue to be stable performers at high speeds and technical descents.  I really put the skis through the ringer at Crested Butte with the limited snow cover and hard packed terrain.  It was by far the most challenging course I have done to date.
 
I have included a few pictures with the skis that my dad took at Monarch ski area a little while back.
 
Thanks again for your support.

                                                      – Brian Smith

Click here for the results of the Crested Butte Cosmic Series Rando Race.

24 Hours of Sunlight Endurance Race Results

GOODE sponsored skiers, Eric “Sully” Sullivan and Dina Mishev, won the 4th Annual 24 Hours of Sunlight Endurance  Randonee Race in the Men’s and Women’s Solo Groups. The race started on February 7th and continued through February 8th, 2009 in Glenwood Springs, CO.

Last year, Eric Sullivan of Crested Butte, set the current world record for “most human powered vertical feet in 24 hours”.   He completed 34 laps and reached 51,068 vertical feet, which is 47.6 miles.  This year, Eric completed 27 laps, which is a distance travelled of 37.8 miles , and an elevation gain of 40,554 feet. 

Dina Mishev, of Jackson Hole, WY,  reached her goal of setting the Women’s World Record.  Dina completed 23 laps for a distance travelled of 32.2 miles, and an elevation gain of 34,546 feet, to set a new Women’s World Record.

Both skiers were racing on lightweight GOODE Carbon Fiber Randonee Skis.  GOODE skis were used by the first place racers the last four years.  Greg Hill won the first two 24 Hours of Sunlight riding his GOODE skis and set the Men’s World Record in 2006 and 2007.  Eric “Sully” Sullivan used GOODE Skis for his World Record performace in 2008 and his win again this year.

The week before this year’s race, Dina Mishev wrote Dave Goode the following: “I skied the randonees for the first time two days ago. Even better than how light they are? They ski like real skis! You are a genius.    -Dina”

More info will follow as soon a Sully and Dina recover from their races and can report in with more race details and photos.