Inertia Racing

 

Inertia Racing is a mountain bike racing team based in Greenville, South Carolina.  We recognize there are many sponsored teams in the upstate almost all of these teams are “road racing based” teams.  Our team concentrates on the sport of Mountain Bike Racing and we feel we can bring our sponsors exposure to the Mountain Biking community.  This presents a unique opportunity for your organization to attract potential clients. 

 

Who are we?

 

Inertia Racing is a 6 member team founded in 2003 by Mark Henninger and Danny Shew.  The team started out with a few adventure races, but has explored many different avenues since then.  Through the past 6 years, the members of the team have participated in road racing, time trials, off-road multi-sport events (duathlons and triathlons), cyclocross, and touring events (such as the Assault on Mount Mitchell).  It didn’t take us very long to realize that the sport that we all love the most is mountain bike racing.

 

The team now concentrates on Mountain Bike Cross-Country racing and Endurance (6-24 hour) events throughout the Southeast US in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina.  While the team has been founded on friendship and camaraderie, we are very focused in both our training and our racing.  Here are a few of our results from the 2010 season.

 Mountain Bike Events:

            ·     South Carolina XC State Championship series: 2 team members (Sharon Brown and Mark Henninger) with silver medal finishes.

            ·      Charlotte Winter Short Track: 4 team members. Mark Henninger (9^th place), Danny Shew (16^th place), Will Brown (13^th place) and Sharon Brown (4^th place).

            ·      Snake Creek Gap Time Trial Series: 1 team member (Mike Pierce – 26^th place).

            ·      Tsali XC Mountain Bike race: 1 team member (Mike Pierce – 15^th place).

            ·      Cohutta 100 Mile Mountain Bike race: 1 team member (Mike Pierce – 84^th place).

            ·      6 Hours Of Warrior Creek Mountain Bike Race: 3 solo racers. Will Brown (69^th place), Sharon Brown (12^th place) and Mike Pierce (31^st place) and one 2 person team (Mark Henninger and Derrick Kruse – 40^th place).

            ·      6 Hour Grind On the Greenway Mountain Bike race: 1 team member (Mike Pierce – 4^th place).

            ·      Harbison XC Mountain Bike race: 4 team members. Sharon Brown (3^rd place), Mark Henninger (4^th place), Will Brown (7^th place) and Mike Pierce (8^th place).

            ·      Stump Jump Mountain Bike race: 3 team members. Mark Henninger (2^nd place), Sharon Brown (4^th place) Will Brown (5^th place).

            ·      Burn 24 Hour Mountain Bike race: One 4 member team (Mark Henninger, Derrick Kruse, Sharon Brown and Will Brown) with a 9^th place finish and one solo team member (Mike Pierce – 9^th place).

            ·      Catawba Riverfront Classix XC Mountain Bike race: 1 team member (Mark Henninger – 6^th place).

            ·      Tiger Rag XC Mountain Bike race: 1 team member (Derrick Kruse – 8^th place).

            ·      Rock ‘N Race Duathlon (team): 1 team member (Mark Henninger) with a 1^st place finish.

            ·      Off Road Assault On Mt. Mitchell: 2 team members. Sharon Brown (2^nd place) and Mike Pierce (34^th place).

            ·      12 Hours Of Dauset: 4 person team (4th place) and one solo team member (Sharon Brown 2nd place).

 

Road Events:

            ·      Donaldson Center Road Race #2  (Sharon Brown – 10^th place).

            ·      River Falls Road Race (Sharon Brown – 11^th  place).

            ·      Donaldson Center Road race #3 (Sharon Brown – 17^th place).

            ·      Assault On Marion: (Sharon Brown – 38^th place).

            ·      Caesar’s Head 102 Mile Challenge: 2 team members.  Will Brown (42^nd place) and Sharon Brown (35^th place).

 

What does Team Inertia have planned for the rest of 2010?

 

            ·      12 Hours Of Dauset

            ·      The Treeshaker 6 Hour Mountain Bike race

            ·      Swank 65

            ·      Shenandoah 100 Mile Mountain Bike race

            ·      Spinx Run Fest 5K (running)

 

What does the team have to offer to a prospective sponsor?

 

Without fail, we present a positive image of ourselves, our team, and our sponsors.  In addition to racing in a variety of locations throughout the region, we spend a lot of time on the road and trails during training.  Team members train an average of 10 hours per week on the local roads and trails of the Upstate while wearing your logo on our team uniform.  That’s an average of 50 person hours per week of sponsor advertisement on our jersey’s and word of mouth.   Many of the rides are part of larger local group rides such as the Caesars Head Challenge, or SORBA Tuesday night group Rides at Paris Mountain.  We feel that this additional exposure would present a great benefit to our sponsors.

 

Here is a short list of some of the events that are in our current racing plan for the 2011 season.  Many athletes from the Greenville, SC area are participants.