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The Teva Mountain Games concluded this Sunday with the weekend-long Ultimate Mountain Challenge, pitting athletes against one another in a four event marathon comprised of a 10K run, a mountain bike sprint up Vail’s mountains, a road cycling Omega replica watches summit of 10,666 foot Vail Pass, and a four mile downriver rally sprint.Josiah Middaugh, now the three-time consecutive winner of the men’s individual UMC, finished with a combined time of 3:32:28.6, almost twenty minutes ahead of the silver finisher, Travis Macy. Middaugh earned most of his distance in Saturday’s mountain bike race up Vail Peak.
The Women’s competition was considerable closer, with champion Sari Anderson edging out Gretchen Reeves by just three minutes, breaking the Tag Heuer replica watches tape at the finish in 3:40:38.9.Most importantly, Rouser, an 18 month old golden retriever, won the Games’ lone canine competition on Saturday, leaping 24 feet, seven inches off a dock and into the air in pursuit of his favorite toy. Sean Brander
