2026 AMA National Hard Enduro Round 2 Results

Cycle News Staff | February 23, 2026

The second round of the AMA National Hard Enduro Championship took a trip to the Omao riding area on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to tackle the steep, slippery and extremely wet jungle terrain. Consistent heavy rains poured down all week leading up to the race, filling creeks with raging flows and drenching the hillsides. Hawaiians are known for riding well in slippery terrain—a necessary skill when your local riding area is less than 10 miles away from one of the wettest places on earth—Mount Wai’ale’ale. That local advantage was huge as Saturday’s main event got even more rain.

Kawelo Huddy at 2026 Kauai Hard Enduro — **Kawelo Huddy used the home course advantage to get up front and distance himself from the best hard enduro racers in the country by a huge margin. Photos by Ryan McCasland & Owen Gorsuch.**

All of this played into the hands of the local Hawaiian racers perfectly with Bulletproof Designs KRD Hui’s Kawelo Huddy taking his third consecutive win at the event, finishing in three hours and 31 minutes.

But it wasn’t just a third win in a row for Huddy on his home court, it was total domination. Huddy had a one-hour-and-54-minute gap over second place at the finish—not something you see when the best racers in the series are all there—and they were.

“[I had] a lot of pressure knowing this is my hometown; I got no excuses,” Huddy said. “I ride here all the time. So, the pressure was high. Kana [Kamakana Waiwaiole-Kahalepuna] was putting the pressure on me in the beginning, but about 20-minutes in, I pulled a gap and then tried to stay calm and clean every line.

“Saving the bike was a big factor because you are on the throttle the whole day in third gear, fourth gear. You can never let the clutch fade because once that thing fades, you’re not going to make any of these hills. So, that was a big factor—saving the bike—so you can finish.”

Kamakana Waiwaiole-Kahalepuna at 2026 Kauai Hard Enduro — **Kamakana Waiwaiole-Kahalepuna had serious bike issues but managed to finish in second in a race that most didn’t even cross the finish line.**

Closest to him was his teammate and fellow Hawaiian, Kamakana “Kana” Waiwaiole-Kahalepuna. Kana battled side by side with Huddy for much of the race but had to return to the pits to fix a clutch issue. He battled more mechanicals as the brutally steep and slippery terrain took its toll after rejoining the race but still managed to be the closest to the leader at the finish line.

“Once I figured out Kawelo had finished, I just worried about myself and told myself to keep going, keep grinding—we’re going to finish this race no matter what,” Kana said. “I feel so blessed to get that bike across the finish line. That thing had a blown crank seal right from the start, and that led to a smoked clutch we had to repair. I was pushing as hard as I could—literally pushing my bike to finish.”

Third place went to South African Matthew Green, riding for Champion Brick on a rented bike, four minutes behind second. Green had Kana in his sights during the later stage of the race but just couldn’t close the gap.

Matthew Green at 2026 Kauai Hard Enduro — **South Africa’s Matthew Green was the third and final finisher to see the checkered flag before the cut-off time.**

“It was quite a race, honestly mental, like, one of the most insane races I’ve done,” Green said. “The trails were so gnarly, we had flood warnings this morning. I enjoyed it; I was going well [and] about two-three hours in, I clicked into another gear and really got going. I managed to catch Trystan [Hart] and pulled a bit of a gap from Cody [Webb] by then. I managed to get up a hill Trystan was really struggling on, so once I got there, I had one hour to finish and had to make it count.”

And that’s it. That’s all three finishers who crossed the finish line before the five-and-a-half-hour cutoff time to complete eight checkpoints around the 21-mile single-lap race.

Hart & Webb at 2026 Kauai Hard Enduro — **Defending series champ Trystan Hart (1) finished fourth in results, while Cody Webb (2), who also struggled in the conditions and with the terrain, rounding out the top five.**

FMF Factory Racing KTM’s Trystan Hart finished in fourth place, completing six of the eight checkpoints in just over five hours. Rocky Mountain Yamaha’s Cody Webb was credited with fifth place about four minutes behind Hart at the same checkpoint. And the attrition continued from there. Sixth place went to Hawaiian Chris Satterfield after making five checkpoints. Ryder Guest finished seventh after winning the prologue on his home turf the day before. Guest had mechanical issues and could only hit four checkpoints during the main event. Braden Petrie on the IRC Beta team was eighth, Casey Satterfield was ninth and Archer Pascoe rounded out the top 10 in the Pro class.

In the A Class, Champion Brick Racing’s Makana Barger took the win in dominating fashion, covering the 19-mile A loop course in four hours and 59 minutes. In the Pro Women’s class, Oahu’s Pebs Madolora led through all three of the checkpoints, finishing on top in four hours, 36 minutes.CN