{"id":1598,"date":"2012-07-11T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:04:02","slug":"1598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/1598\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Kenda Seven No Tubes at 2012 USA Cycling MTB CC National Championships!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prowomenstxcpodium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1599 size-full\" title=\"prowomenstxcpodium\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prowomenstxcpodium.jpg\" alt=\"Mary McConnenoug takes third place\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prowomenstxcpodium.jpg 425w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prowomenstxcpodium-400x602.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prowomenstxcpodium-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 85vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary McConneloug and Mike Broderick took the 2012 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships in Sun Valley, Idaho by storm last weekend!<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, July 7, Mary raced to a podium finish taking the 5th position in the Women&#8217;s Pro Cross Country race. \u00a0Later in the afternoon Mike put in a solid performance finishing 17<sup>th<\/sup>overall in the Men&#8217;s Pro Cross Country field. \u00a0On Sunday morning, Mike raced to a 12th place finish in the Pro Men&#8217;s Super D and returned in the afternoon to take 19th place in the Pro Men&#8217;s\u00a0Short Track Cross Country race. \u00a0Mary raced in Sunday afternoon&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Pro Short Track Cross Country field and took a podium spot and bronze medal in her race!<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Mary had to say about the races in sunny, parched Idaho:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-Kenda-Seven-NoTubes-on-top-of-Idaho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1600 size-large\" title=\"Team Kenda-Seven-NoTubes on top of Idaho\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-Kenda-Seven-NoTubes-on-top-of-Idaho-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"Team Kenda-Seven-NoTubes on top of Idaho\" width=\"840\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-Kenda-Seven-NoTubes-on-top-of-Idaho-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-Kenda-Seven-NoTubes-on-top-of-Idaho-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-Kenda-Seven-NoTubes-on-top-of-Idaho-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Team-Kenda-Seven-NoTubes-on-top-of-Idaho.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>It is high and super dry out here with little chance of badly needed precipitation.\u00a0 The XC course consists of a single steep fire road climb that sorts everything out before dropping us into a no passing single track descent.\u00a0 It makes for some hard racing at this altitude but it was a good weekend and we are both stoked to be healthy and fit!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Nationals, Cycling Dirt interviewed Mike about his IMX SL 29er.\u00a0 Mike raced all of three races on this bike, and we are happy to hear he\u2019s satisfied\u00a0 with its performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary McConneloug and Mike Broderick took the 2012 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships in Sun Valley, Idaho by storm last weekend! On Saturday, July 7, Mary raced to a podium finish taking the 5th position in the Women&#8217;s Pro Cross Country race. \u00a0Later in the afternoon Mike put in a solid performance finishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/1598\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Team Kenda Seven No Tubes at 2012 USA Cycling MTB CC National Championships!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,11,232,45,1008,23,35,9],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-mary-mcconneloug","tag-mike-mary","tag-mike-broderick","tag-mountain-bikes","tag-pro-bike-racing","tag-seven-racers","tag-seven-visitors","tag-team-kendasevenno-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17930,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/17930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}