John, Gordo, Scott and Clas atop the highest peak in Australia during EC:OZ’05.
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Scott Molina and John Newsom are proud to present Epic Camps.
The purpose of “Epic Camps” is to provide elite and amateur athletes with an environment within which they can achieve personal excellence.
We are looking to do some huge training with a group of very good, highly motivated people. We will have ups and downs – but we are certain that these camps will provide all of us with some outstanding memories.
The idea for Epic Camps started in July of 2001 in a friend’s garage. The July weather can be a bit bleak in Christchurch so each July my buddy Peter would hook us up to the Tour de France via satellite TV in his garage. We ride our trainers and watch Tour coverage. Its one of the main things that get me through our long, cold, dark winters in decent shape. During one of these sessions, we came up with the idea to do bike tours where everyone rides big K's and has some fun. Each day would have points like stages in the Tour but the main focus would simply be big training and fun. Pete went on to launch the 5-Passes Tour that is now in its 10th yea.
My buddy Gordo and I decided to put on a tri camp with that initial idea in mind, but added a caveat that the participants would need to be of a really high standard to create a bit of a competitive atmosphere.
There are a lot of triathlon camps out there run by excellent coaches who are helping people learn valuable skills. What we wanted to do was give top athletes (age groupers and elites) the opportunity to change their physiology and outlook towards endurance training. To help them take their performance to a whole new level. We also wanted to have a platform to share the different training philosophies that we had developed.
The basic outline for each Epic Camp is to ride huge miles with people that are looking to become the very best they can be – the group using each other to take themselves where we couldn’t get alone. Along the way, we’ll talk training and have some fun. Over eight or more days of swimming, biking and running, we figured that there would be plenty of opportunity to get to know each other.
Cheers, Scott
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