
Tostado and Horyani overtake 24-Hour Mountain Bike national titles
Moab, Utah (Oct. 11, 2009) – Eleven national champions were crowned at the USA Cycling 24-Hour Mountain Bike National Championships on Sunday after the nation’s best ultra-endurance mountain bikers wrapped up 24 grueling hours racing in beautiful Moab, Utah.
Riders set out on Saturday for as many laps as they could complete on the 15-mile course. After the 24 hours had expired, Josh Tostado (Alma, Colo./Bach Builders) and Eszter Horanyi (Boulder, Colo/Waltworks) recorded more laps than any other solo riders in the male and female division to earn the prestigious solo national titles.
After finishing second to five-time defending champion Chris Eatough (Baltimore, MD.) last year, Tostado assumed the Stars-and-Stripes in 2009 logging 17 laps. After riding the first few laps nearly side-by-side with eventual silver medalist Kelly Magelky (Golden, Colo.), Tostado grabbed a small lead on lap three and never looked back. Magelky finished with 16 total laps.