Some 600 racers from more than 20 states and nine countries are converging on Vail Lake Resort in the heart of Southern California’s wine country in Temecula for Sunday’s XTERRA West Championship.

Stoltz’ run at his 5th consecutive XTERRA South Africa title was undermined by a flat tire, and another South African star stole the show – the young Dan Hugo.

Terenzo Bozzone just missed making the New Zealand Olympic triathlon team, but that didn’t stop him from proving his off-road worth by winning the 2008 XTERRA New Zealand Championships in Rotorua last weekend.

SEVERAL XTERRA ATHLETES SELECTED FOR LAND ROVER G4 CHALLENGE - NEVADA PASSAGE

GOOD NEWS FROM THE JAMIE WHITMORE CAMP Last Friday, March 28, XTERRA’s all-time winningest athlete Jamie Whitmore pulled off her biggest victory to date – a successful surgery to remove a baseball size tumor near her pelvic area.

THE FIRST-EVER XTERRA It’s well documented that the first-ever XTERRA was the 1996 World Champs in Maui, but that race wasn’t actually called XTERRA, it was “AquaTerra”.

Bend, Oregon, which was recently voted “America’s Best Trail Running Town” by the editors of Outside Magazine, has been named the host destination for the 2008 and 2009 XTERRA Trail Running National Championships. The 2008 event is set for Sept.27, 2008.

ENDURANCE FILMS AND MACH3 MULTISPORT, IN ASSOCIATION WITH TEAM UNLIMITED, RELEASE WORLD'S FIRST XTERRA: OFF ROAD TRIATHLON TRAINING DVD For Immediate Release: 2.28.08 You might know triathlon….but do you know XTERRA?

Some of the best multisport athletes in the world are headed to Snowbasin Resort in Utah to race in the first-ever XTERRA Winter World Championship on March 8.

Land Rover North America and the Nevada Commission on Tourism yesterday announced that this year’s Nevada Passage produced by TEAM Unlimited will serve as the national selection event for the 2008/2009 Land Rover G4 Challenge.