Campmor H2H Series Awards

It was a fun night at the Campmor H2H Series awards dinner in Mt Arlington NJ on November 30. 150 racers gathered to celebrate the 2008 race season. Brian Larivere from Team Bulldog hosted the evening of events where top racers were recognized. Sports, Experts and Pro's received winners Jerseys.


Fast Eddy Ceccolini, winning the pro field for 2008. Joining him on the podium is Daughter Evelyn dressed in purple to match his winners jersey, as well as Art White taking second place.


Marianne Santangelo winning the sport 35+, and every race entered, all in her first year racing.


Ben Williams winning the Expert 40-49.


Zach Koop taking 3rd in the Expert 19-29.


Tom Stanowski winning the Expert 50+.


Laura Winberry winning the Expert 12-34.


Darlene Phillips taking 2nd in the Expert 35+, and Ellen White finishing 3rd.

Team Campmor Results
Ed Ceccolini - 1st Pro - 3.5 hours of Paydirt
Art White - 2nd Pro - 101.5 hours of Paydirt
Joe Azze - 13th Pro - 8 hours of Paydirt
Ben Williams - 1st Expert 40-49 - 15 hours of Paydirt
Tom Stanowski - 1st Expert 50+ - 20.5 hours of Paydirt
Laura Winberry - 1st Expert 12-34 - 31.5 hours of Paydirt
Darlene Phillips - 2nd Expert 35+ - 42.5 hours of Paydirt
Zach Koop - 3rd Expert 19-29 - 11.5 hours of Paydirt
Ellen White - 3rd Expert 35+ - 56.5 hours of Paydirt
Jeremy Swift - 4th Expert 30-39 - 8 hours of Paydirt
Joe Baldacci - 8th Expert SS - 16.5 hours of Paydirt
Tahir Thomas - 12th Expert 30-39 - 8 hours of Paydirt
Joe Barros - 13th Expert 40-49 - 9.5 hours of Paydirt
Jeff Coneys - 14th Expert 40-49 - 17.5 hours of Paydirt
Marianne Santangelo - 1st Sport 35+ - 29.5 hours of Paydirt
Tyler Conlon - 3rd Sport 15-18 - 5 hours of Paydirt
Matt Watters - 17th Sport 19-29 - 9.5 hours of Paydirt
*Jeff Sauerman - healing - 5 hours Paydirt
*Tara Walhart - healing ........*and we miss riding with you both!

The team put a total of 399 hours of Paydirt (trail work) in 2008.

Team Campmor would like to thank our very generous sponsors for 2008: Campmor, Titus, Easton, Giro, Sidi and Vredesteine.

SCCX - State Championship

Congratulations to Laura Winberry for winning the SCCX race and also taking the state championship. Great job Laura! I got out on the course as well for my first cross race. Fun stuff!

Three Ways to Skin A Cat

We were out on some of the new section of trail up at Ringwood and got some video clips. It is apparent everyone sees their own line, but all of us see it different dimensions. .... I stay to the beaten track, Tom a variation of that, and Art goes for the blowhole line ....




Get out and ride! - Ellen

Revenge at Blue Mt Ride

After such a wet and discouraging race last weekend at Blue, some of us could not put our Blue love to rest for the season with out some sort of revenge ride. We needed to go back and master the flow, roll the faces and just have a fun day of play.



Art, Willy, Marianne, Ben and I met up with Alex and Jane, resident pro, for a somewhat epic tour of Blue, well epic for me these days.



Trails included: ....... some new trail that Marianne and I got lost on in two minutes, Dr Jekyll (the fun way), Neds, Sis's the other way than the race (where I took a good endo), Criss-cross, middle and lower Stinger .......



...... My Favorite Trail (which I now can say is my favorite trail), and the "new" Monster. The new monster trail is awesome!!!



It was truly a #10 day with blue skies, temps in the 70's and the colors of fall starting to turn. Afterwards, .....lunch and a yummy porter at the brew pub in Peekskill. The boys were getting leg cramps in their bar stools. Nice day indeed.


Ben riding a roller.


Art ready to clean up the carnage with a spatula.

- Ellen

Campmor H2H Chain Stretcher at Blue Mt

Team Results:

Ed Ceccolini - 1st Pro
Art White - 8th Pro
Darlene Phillips - 1st Exp
Laura Winberry - 1st Exp
Tom Stanowski - 2nd Exp 50
Ellen White - 3rd Exp
Zach Koop - 3rd Exp 19
Ben Williams - 4th Exp 40
Jeremy Swift - 7th Exp 30
Marianne Santangelo -1st Sport

Campmor H2H Rumble in the Jungle

Racing at Jungle Habitat, is one of the highlights of the year for many mountain bikers. The defunct 70’s safari theme park has taken new form, with 30 years of new growth and vines entangling trees and structures of another era. Jorba, the main force behind the extensive trail planning and building in the park, has done a great job on the trails, and this race shows them off well. Racers were certainly challenged with rocks galore and tight off camber single-track with trees nipping at their handle bars the whole way. And if that wasn’t enough to keep their attention, racers could also take in the historical sites along the route as they would ride past a monkey cage, an amphitheater, to the top of a hill, in between tiger and baboon pens, through fences, past an umbilical cord vine, through a tunnel, into the deer pen and around the 80 acres of crumbling parking lot.

It was nice to see Team Campmor out racing on the trails they helped to build! - Ellen

Team Results
Ed Ceccolini - 1st Pro
Art White - 4th - Pro
Laura Winberry - 1st Exp Wom
Darlene Phillips - 2nd Exp 35+
Ben Williams - 3rd Exp 40
Ellen White - 3rd Exp 35+
Tom Stanowski - 4th Exp 50
Zach Koop - 4th Exp 19
Tahir Thomas - 8th Exp 30
Jeff Coneys - 8th Exp 40
Jeremy Swift - 9th Exp 30
Marianne Santangelo - 1st Sport Wom 35+
Tyler Conlon - 3rd Sport Jr

Campmor H2H Ringwood Fall Classic

Team Results:

Ed Ceccolini - 1st Pro
Joe Azze - 4th Pro
Tom Stanowski - 2nd Expert 50+
Laura Winberry - 2nd Expert 12-34
Darlene Phillips - 2nd Expert 35+
Tahir Thomas - 6th Expert 30-39
Joe Barros - 7th Expert 40-49
Jeremy Swift - 8th Expert 30-39
Ben Williams - 9th Expert 40-49
Marianne Santangelo - 1st Sport Women
Tyler Conlon - 5th Sport Jr


Lauras's report here: http://humblecoalition.blogspot.com/2008/09/swingwood-ringwood-blingwood-and.html