I had a tour of the WEG cross-country course this morning. I say “tour” and not “course walk” as the entire thing was conducted from the relative comfort of a golf cart. The course is long, winding, and runs over undulating ground, with a punishingly steep, lengthy climb to the finish dubbed “Heartbreak Hill”. In […]

A few days before WEG, I shared a current aeriel video of Tryon on Facebook, saying it looked rather more finished than all the images we’ve been seeing from the ground.  An American friend promptly posted a picture of Earth taken from Outer Space – Tryon looks even better and more finished the further away […]

The French Endurance team’s long-standing chef d’equipe, believes the chaos that unfurled yesterday in Tryon could “sign the death of endurance.”

Hurricane Florence, which has been dancing out to sea for days, has just started to assault the Carolina coastline. To provide more resources for the response to this weather event, state government agencies have reportedly dramatically reduced the personnel previously scheduled to support public safety, transportation and health-related matters at WEG. This includes soldiers from […]

I felt bad this morning when I couldn’t quite make the 5:00 a.m. shuttle to get to the start of the endurance ride. A few hours later, it didn’t matter anyway, when the race was declared null and void during the first loop because of a rather monumental traffic screw-up and restarted at a much […]

The remainder of the WEG Endurance competition has been cancelled due to a potentially dangerously high combination of heat and humidity.

Unprecedented scenes of chaos and anger have unfolded on the opening day of the WEG with the decision to re-start the race as a 120km 2* event.

It seems that WEG Tryon just can't seem to catch a break.