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The Adam
Craig Junior MTB Series was launched in 2003. One of the goals of the junior
series is to recruit more junior riders into the sport of mountain biking. For
the 2005 season, Adam Craig and Giant® will sponsor the 2005 MMBA Points
Series junior men expert championship, and give a Giant® frame to the top
junior men expert rider.
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Adam
Craig Report from World Cup #6, Balneario Camboriu, Brazil
I’ve been coming here for a long
time to race bikes. The first time was the Cadet downhill at age 14 in 1996. My
first World Championships were here in 1998. It’s always been a great
time. This year especially. Keeping with the theme of no proper goals for the
2005 season, I didn’t want to “focus” on Mont Saint Anne, but I
was keenly aware that it was on the horizon. After racing on silly smooth
tracks in Europe for a while, I was fired up to get on some proper burly
trails.....
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Adam
Craig Report from World Cup #5, Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec
I’ve been coming here for a long
time to race bikes. The first time was the Cadet downhill at age 14 in 1996. My
first World Championships were here in 1998. It’s always been a great
time. This year especially. Keeping with the theme of no proper goals for the
2005 season, I didn’t want to “focus” on Mont Saint Anne, but I
was keenly aware that it was on the horizon. After racing on silly smooth
tracks in Europe for a while, I was fired up to get on some proper burly
trails.....
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Adam
Craig Report from World Cup #4, Willingen Germany
What can I say, it was finally cold
enough to wear the longsleeve skinsuit and tall Smith socks at World Cup #4 in
Willingen, Germany. What a relief, as I carried that little piece of style
around for seven weeks and got to use it on the last day of the trip. Something
about the long white sleeves raises morale to record levels and ensures that
I'll have a good day on the bike.. (this is tough information to have, as I'm
always pushing the temperature ceiling to uncomfortable highs.) .....
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Adam
Craig Report from NORBA #3, Deer Valley Utah
Back to racing in the States for me,
and back to racing in the dirt for Carl. And what nice dirt it was! The last
time the NORBA series visited Park City, Utah was in 2000. I remember the dirt
not being very nice, and by that, I mean airborne in the form of dust due to
the late summer Utah drought. Apart from the apparent lack of oxygen at 7000+
feet, Deer Valley is a great venue, good courses, beautiful backdrop provided
by the Wasatch range, and the proper city of Salt Lake just a half hour away on
I-80. ....
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Adam
Craig Report from World Cup #3, Houffalize Belgium
Houffalize is a classic. Thats it.
Steep hard climbs and rough and ready descents through the Ardennes forest.
Beautiful little village in a beautiful little valley, and they love their
World Cup. Tons of people. The race pretty much was less than optimal for me.
Luck of the draw at the start saw me on the side of the pack that was awkwardly
falling on itself on the gravel start climb and letting the other side of the
pack ride on by. ....
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Adam
Craig Report from Swisspower Cup #4, Switzerland
I was looking at the race schedule a
couple weeks ago, trying to decide how to fill the gap between World Cup #2 and
#3. There was a UCI E1 Coupe De France north of Paris and an E1 Swisspower Cup
in the Alpenregion of Switzerland, just outside Interlaken. I figured I’d
look into the Suisse race first, as the scenery seemed like it would be better.
It was. This is the most beautiful place I’ve ever raced, which is a tall
order.. ....
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Adam
Craig Report from World Cup #2, Madrid Spain
Finally, a hot, sunny, dusty race. Not
that I´m a fan of those conditioins, but it´s always nice to have a
race in the early season that gets you into the summer heat groove. The Casa de
Campo venue in Madrid is unique in the fact that it´s a city park, a
really big one, but still about 1k from downtown. The course is a fast rolling
affair consisting of some doubletrack and a bunch of fun, flowy singletrack
with tons of STEEP short climbs, all thirty seconds or less. The crowds were
out in force, tons of people enjoying a Sunday afternoon in the park screaming
"VENGA" at the riders. ...
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Adam
Craig Report from Marathon World Cup #2, Italy
This place is spectacular. Emerald
blue lake backed up by fairly impressive limestone mountains and cliffs. Sunny
and 75 everyday (so far). Pizza is cheap and to die for. What more could I ask
for. I guess I could ask for less than 9000 feet of fireroad climbing and fewer
ten minute long paved descents in the Marathon contested today. But when in
Rome…. I’ve never done a Marathon race before, and I’ve also
never been to Riva, but I’ve heard both a! re a good time, so I figured
I’d combine a couple firsts for the weekend off between Cross Country
World Cups. It was a good choice...
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Adam
Craig Report from World Cup #1, Belgium
After a busy Sea Otter (sorry for no report last
week, things were crazy, I had a solid weekend, finishing seventh overall,
Decker was solid for April in 18th overall) and couple days of packing and last
minute organizing, I left on Wednesday afternoon for the next seven weeks and
first four rounds of the XC World Cup. Frank (Trotter, team manager and
mechanic) and I arrived in Europe on Thursday (with all of our luggage) and
drove that afternoon to the Ardennes region of eastern Belgium, where the
Spa-Francorchamps F1 circuit lays nestled in a beautiful wooded valley...
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Adam
Craig & Carl Decker, TEAM Giant, Check in From NORBA #2
The desert is a strange
and dangerous place. Stop two of the NORBA series found Adam and I in McDowel
Mountain Park outside of Phoenix AZ, home to rattlesnakes, desert tortoises
(tortoi?) and a lot of cactus weary bike racers for the weekend. Again the
schedule would be for three days of racing; a timetrial, a short track XC, and
a Cross Country. The timetrial was fast and fun, with enough 25 mph rock
gardens to make the NRS dually the obvious choice for Adam and I...
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Adam
Craig, TEAM Giant, Checks in From NORBA #1
Well, Carl and I came down here hoping to have a good
time, get in some racing and check out Texas. We've been hanging out in Bend
for the last month or so, training, skiing, kayaking, making plans for the
season and generally having a relaxed, enjoyable winter. With this in mind, we
came to Texas with minimal expectations, both of us would have been pretty
stoked with a top 10 in one of the stages or overall, it being the first
weekend in March and all....
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Interview with Adam Craig, Conducted by Beau Lambert,
Athletic Development Group in 2003
Adam Craig cut his racing teeth
"back in the day" while attending Maine Mountain Bike Association races. His
first breakthrough result was at the 1998 National Mountain Bike Championships
on his home NCS course of Mount Snow. The Silver medal from that day left most
everybody on the mountain wondering who was this new kid that could put the
boots to the West coasters. Adam's mates on Team Grimace saw it coming more
than a year earlier.....
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2005
Results
Norba National #1
Boerne, Texas, USA
March 4-6,
2005
Time Trial: 3rd
Short Track: 3rd
Cross Country: 1st
Overall GC: 1st
Norba National #2
McDowell Mtn Park,
Arizona,
USA
March 18-20, 2005
Time Trial: 2nd
Short Track: NA
Cross Country: 5th
Overall GC: NA
Sea Otter Classic
Monterey
California,
March 18-20, 2005
Super XC: 10th
Time Trial:
11th
Short Track: 12th
Cross Country: 7th
Overall GC: 7th
World Cup #1
Spa Francochamps
Belgium
March 23, 2005
Cross Country: 43rd
Marathon WC #2
Riva del Garda, Italy
May 2, 2005
Cross Country: 20th
World Cup #2
Madrid,
Spain
May 8, 2005
Cross Country: 18th
Swisspower Cup
#4
Hasliberg, Switzerland
May 15, 2005
Cross Country:
2nd
World Cup #3
Houffalize, Belgium
May 29, 2005
Cross Country: 40th
World Cup #4
Willingen Germany
June 4,
2005
Cross Country: 8th
Norba National #3
Deer Valley, Utah,
USA
June 17-19, 2005
Hill Climb: 10th
Short Track: 4th
Cross
Country: 5th
Overall GC: 4th
World Cup #5
Mont Sainte-Anne,
Quebec
June 25-26, 2005
Cross Country: 4th
World Cup #6
Brazil
July 2, 2005
Cross Country: 4th
World Cup
#7
Angel Fire, NM
July 10th, 2005
Cross Country:
16th
Norba National #4
Schweitzer, Idaho
July 16-17,
2005
Cross Country: 5th
Short Track: 4th
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