Summit won all four individual races and both relay races at Friday and Saturday’s State high school nordic championships. Pat Madden and Isabella Smith claimed the individual titles for the Storm.

The Pole Pedal Paddle is Bend’s signature sporting event. Marshall Greene has won the last four, as far as Central Oregon Athlete is concerned, that makes him a BIG deal! But Greene is more than just a dominating PPP champion. He recently took third @ the Boulder Mountain Tour and is an elite level endurance athlete. Greene was kind enough to answer a few questions for COA:

Central Oregon Athlete – Where did you grow up?
Marshall Greene – Grew up in Spokane. Ran xc for Lewis and Clark HS and skied with the club
team there, Spokane Nordic.

COA – How long have you lived in Bend?
MG – I moved to Bend shortly after graduating from Middlebury College in VT in
2004.

COA – What brought you to Bend?
MG – I came to Bend to pursue cross-country ski racing full time. For
“professional” nordic ski racers, there are only a few places in the country
with post-collegiate club teams that provide the support (financially and
technically) necessary to be succesful as a ski racer. Many of these places
are in the middle of nowhere and don’t really have anything to offer besides
the ski team. I knew that I wouldn’t be ski training all 24 hours of the
day and I wanted a place where I could live happily the rest of the day.
Bend was the obvious choice.

COA – What’s next on your racing schedule?
MG – I’m leaving for Madison, WI for a Super Tour event this weekend. After that
I’ll be heading to Europe for three weekends of racing. First weekend will
be in a Swiss national level race, 2nd weekend is a Europa Cup (the World
Cup qualifying races for Central Europe), and then the last weekend I’ll
race the Engadin Ski Marathon with 12,000 others.

COA – What’s something that most people don’t know about you?
MG – I’m incredibly forgetful. I lose and leave things everywhere –on my
honeymoon I left my passport in a taxi at the Thai/Cambodia border.

COA – As the winner of multiple PPPs you are clearly a multifaceted racer/athlete,
what other sports do you enjoy?
MG – I love participating in pretty much every sport. I still run all the time
and do some road bike racing. Mt. biking is tons of fun but a little
dangerous for me — I crash hard and often. I played baseball and
basketball growing up so I even enjoy team sports from time to time.

COA – What makes the PPP special?
MG – I would love to say that the PPP distinguishes the best all-around endurance
athlete in the area but that’s really not true. Cross-country skiing
requires so much technique that if you haven’t been doing it for a long
time, it’s very difficult to make the podium. That said, the PPP is unique
in that it challenges people to become proficient at so mnay different
sports.

What REALLY makes the PPP special is how many people all over Central Oregon
get into it. Whether they are volunteering, being a team member in an event
they’ve never tried before, or racing alone, the whole community gets into
the race. That’s pretty cool for sure.

COA – What is your favorite workout in Central Oregon?
MG – It’s hard to beat some of the trail running that is so accessible around
here. One of my favorite loops starts at the Tumalo Falls parking lot, goes
up the Bridge Creek trail up to Trail 99, and then down North Fork. It goes
through the watershed and stays green much longer into the summer than many
of the trails that start to turn to dust by June. Also Bridge Creek is a
pretty infrequently used trail and bikes aren’t allowed on it so you really
feel like you’re out there all alone. Obviously I’ve got nothing against
mt. bikers — I am one, after all — but sometimes, it’s pretty cool to have
real solitude even without having to be too far from a trailhead. I’m not
sure if I’ve ever met another group of people on it in all the times of run
it.

Koos’ day
Cross-country skier aims to deliver ‘best race ever’ – By Mark Morical/The Bulletin

Bend’s Max King took 11th at the USATF Cross Country National Championships on Saturday in Spokane, Washington.
Danthan Ritzenhein of team Nike won the 12K race with a time of 34 minutes, 34 seconds. King clocked in @ 35:58.
Shalane Flanagan of Nike won the women’s 8K with a time of 25:10.
800-meter specialist Emily McMahon, a Mountain View graduate, was 46th in the women’s 8K (31:00).

GREAT PHOTOS OF THE EVENT BY MICHAEL SCOTT

Just in case you missed the link to all the results, HERE it is.

UPDATE: Please disregard the earlier post of results… they were wrong.

Oregon took second behind Utah @ the 35th Boulder Mountain Tour 2010 nordic ski race in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Bend’s Evelyn Dong won the women’s race, edging Zoe Roy (also of Bend, racing out of Utah).

Bend’s Marshall Greene was third overall to lead Oregon, whose top 10 placers were all from Bend. Greene’s time of 1 hour, 13 minutes and 54.4 seconds was less than two second behind winner Zack Simons of Utah.

Bend’s Brayton Osgood took 6th overall and Bend’s Paul Clark was 18th overall.

Here’s a list of Bend’s top 10 finishers and their overall placing:
3 Greene
6 Osgood
18 Clark
46 Erik Jacobson
55 Evelyn Dong
56 Joe Madden
86 Taylor Leach
87 Sarah Max
104 Mary Wellington
105 Stephanie Howe

Bend age group winners:
Women 18 to 24 – 1 Dong, 2 Zoe Roy (racing for Utah).
Women 25 to 29 – 1 Taylor Leach, 2 Stephanie Howe
Women 30 to 34 – 1 Sarah Max

Click here for full Results.

Good results from this weekend from Sunday’s Teacup races for nordic skiers with ties to Bend. Inge Scheve, who used to write for the Bend Bulletin won the women’s 15K Classic race. In the men’s race, Samuel Cordell of Parkdale, who grew up in Bend and graduated from Mountain View high school, took 2nd behind Kent Murrdoch by just 3 seconds.

• Results by Class
• Results by Gender

- A nordic photo might have been more appropriate, but how could I pass up this pic of Zoe Roy passing through an epic cycling pileup?

Zoe Roy comes from a family that could be the poster for “Central Oregon Athletes.” Her father Rob coaches some of the best snowboarders in the world, her mother Muffy is a past Pole, Peddle, Paddle champion and her younger brother Tosch Roy is an accomplish runner, nordic ski racer and juggler. Zoe has already packed some major racing, adventures and just plain old fun times into her young life. She was kind enough to answer a few questions for Central Oregon Athlete.

Central Oregon Athlete – What have you been up to as far as racing goes since high school?
Zoe Roy – I have been mostly ski racing since high school and jumping in the old PPP, running or biking race in the off season. After I graduated from Summit High School in 2005 I lived in Ramsau, Austria for 6 months with my family. I spent the winter skiing with a local ski club, racing, traveling, learning German, eating good chocolate and hanging out. The next year I moved back to Austria by myself, skied and raced with the same ski club and took classes at the University of Salzburg. Since then I have been going to school and ski racing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake. I’ve also raced a couple of races for the cross country running team at Utah when it has fit in with skiing.

COA – What are your racing goals this winter?
ZR – I am shooting for a top 10 result at NCAAs this year in March. But to achieve that I have to qualify first, which is hard on a deep team like Utah’s. And then I just have to race fast! After that I am hoping to go to Canadian Nationals in Whitehorse.

COA – How does Utah compare to Central Oregon?
ZR – Utah, like Oregon, is a pretty awesome state because there is so much variety. I live in Salt Lake near the mountains and can be in the desert in a couple of hours. There are a lot of fun things to do in and around Salt Lake, and its a great place to go to school, but I’m still partial to Bend. The climates are pretty similar, hot and dry in the summer, cold and snowy in the winter. Utah is hotter in the summer, I’d rather spend summers in Bend. I like how central Utah is to Moab, Tahoe and places in Montana, Colorado and Idaho. And even though I really like Mt. Bachelor, I have to admit that the snow in Utah might be a touch lighter and fluffier than Bachelors….

COA -What’s it like having such an active snow sport oriented family?
ZR – Its really fun having a family that is active and likes to do stuff outside. It gives us a lot of opportunities to do things together. Anything from skiing to snowboarding, to running, to biking, to climbing, to kayaking, to unicycling, to competing with each other in the PPP!

COA – What is your favorite Central Oregon workout?
ZR – I have a few favorite Central Oregon workouts. I love running the Green Lakes loop in the summer. Another favorite is crust cruising up into Broken Top in the spring. And riding McKenzie Pass in the spring before it is opened to cars is awesome too.

Cougs shine at Diamond Lake
Mountain View boys, girls get titles in Southern League – The Bulletin

State cross country proposal sparks reaction, prompts special conference call – By Doug Binder, special to The Oregonian