It was the tale of 4th place today for the locals:
Bjorn Selander - 4th Elite Men
Linda Sone - 4th Elite Women
Jordan Cullen - 4th Juniors
Jordan had by far his best race of the season. He caught and passed the entire beginner Women's field (who start 30 secs ahead of the juniors) in the first couple laps, which was dominated by locals, including the winner, Kris Brazil. He also caught and passed a majority of the beginner men, who started ahead of the women.
But the most impressive thing about his performance is how he finished related to 16 year old Kaitlin Antonneau, a junior girl from Racine, WI (see photo above with the 2 of them clearing the barriers together). Katlin won the 2005 juniors girls 13-14 Cyclocross National Championship and Road Race National Championship. Jordan and Kaitlin battled tooth and nail on Saturday, with Jordan finishing just seconds ahead of her. On Sunday, Jordan simply rode away from her, and just kept on going. I was surprised how well he rode at Jingle Cross given he was home sick on Monday and Tuesday last week. Way to finished the season on a high note Jordo!
A huge congrats to Dan Casper on his big win in the Masters 35+, with Dewey finishing second. I had a less spectacular day than Saturday, and finished 18th.
Linda Sone had a bad start, and got tangled up in some caution tape at the top of the run-up, which left her chasing from the back of the field. Somehow, she battled her way back up to a group of 3 racing for 4th, and beat them all. Way to go Linda!
In the Elite Men, it was Todd Wells dominating the field again. It was amazing to watch him bunny hop the logs at the base of the run-up and ride it all the way up (see the 2 videos below). The video does not do the steepness of the climb justice. It is absolutely amazing what he did today. He rode it every time. Tristan Shouten, and a couple others were able to ride it a few times also, but not every time like Wells. The crowd on top of the run-up was much more rowdy than Saturday. A total party on Mount Krumpet.
Todd Wells Rides the run-up (shot from the bottom)
Todd Wells rides the run-up (shot from the top)
A 4 tier pyramid, cheering Adam Bergman onto a solid 6th place finish.
Marko Lalonde grabs the @ss prime from Hollywood.
5 comments:
Great pic of Hollywood!
Jordo, you are a force. Nice job!
Great recap on Jordan's Sunday race. Congratulations to him on an incredible race (both days, actually, but Sunday sounds even more exciting)! I can't even imagine how he'll be doing NEXT year!
great pic of HWood - now there's a photo to display proudly in the shop. :-)
the jr. woman kaitie happened to race twice on both days and used the jr. race merely as a warm up for the women's intemdiate race in which she placed 2nd both days.
i would also like to extend congrats to jordan. he did a fine job! hope he continues racing! sarah haung also a jr. woman did very well also. there was great jr racing going on.
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