BC Cyclocross Provincial Championships were held on November 28th in North Vancouver. The snow was gone but left a very muddy course for the Mighty kids in attendance.
Jay 'Lowball' Loder was the Mighty hero of the day bringing home a Bronze medal in the Masters 50+ age group despite a good off in the tricky mud pool. He was last seen complaining of extreme neck pain on his patio deck apres race (perhaps due to the weight of this year's medal and his '09 Nationals Medal he brought out to compare). Naturally he soothed his pain with a foamy beverage or six.
Mighty's leader in the dirt, Nick Berry, had a tough day against some of Canada's best CX riders which included Andrew Pinfold, Tyler Trace and Evan Guthrie as well as Singlespeed World Champion Drew Mackenzie. In the first lap chaos he had a tough crash in traffic that left him chasing hard and working his way back up through the pack. Eventually succumbing to another crash he had to call it a day early but it was another great season from Berrryjuice.
Our racing Mama, Stacey Hutton (inspiration to all those who complain of not having enough time to train) showed up to get dirty with the ladies. She fought hard but had a few offs of her own and missed a late flask feed (hmmm, legal?) from her roadie teammate UpChuck. As usual she showed us all how to give 'er with a smile and finished 7th.
The Magical bearded one known as Meat decided to see what the big guns could throw his way. It was his first Elite race after making quick work of the Cat 3 field the last two weeks on his 'highly questionable braking' but otherwise fancy new bike. It proved to be a learning experience for our little Ginger but he raced hard as always and had a race long battle with super junior track sprinter Erik Mulder (note: Meat is about as big as one of his legs...) while fending off one of BC's best roadies Mike Sidic for lucky 13th place.
Special thanks to Hot Hot Barber who showed up early with Berry and set up the tent, BBQ and cooler and looked after all the Mighty racers and hanger-on'ers. It made for a great day to watch some fast, hard racing put on by Kevin Calhoun and friends. And thanks to Ted for some excellent photos.
Congratulations to the BC Champions for 2010, Tyler Trace in the Elite Men and Mical Dyck in the Elite Women.
3 comments:
Anytime you can beat Sidic (on a bike) is a good result in my books.
Nice Work Meat!
The best thing about that race was getting the Jager feed from Claire at the barriers. Thank you, Claire. It made the last lap far less painful.
well i stand corrected! i thought the roadie botched the feed. what a good little teammate!
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