Northfield Recap

Jordan in the Cat 4's

Jordan won the juniors 10-14, and finished 8th in the Cat 4/5's. Northfield was Jordan's very first race ever (2006). He said they were banging shoulders quite a bit in the Cat 4/5 race, and the light rain didn't help things either. It came down to a field sprint of about 30 riders, which was new to Jordan, so great experience. He got a little taste of field sprints at quad cities this year, but it's still pretty foreign to him.

I did the Masters 35+ and Cat 1/2 races. In the Masters, I planned to ride in support of teammates Scott Flanders and Jay Woller. All 3 of us got into breaks that never stuck, but Scott and Dan Casper got in a 2 separate breaks that stayed away for several laps each. In the end in came down to a field sprint, taken by Scott Flanders, helped by a strong last lap pull on the front from Casper, who finished 3rd himself. Koeneman was 3rd. A huge congrats to Scott for scoring the win in a very tough race.

Only 1 of my teammates started the Cat 1/2 race with me (Yorgos). I tail gunned most of the race with a couple exceptions where I moved clear once for a prime, and bridged up to a break that contained Casper and Brabbit. Casper and Yorgos got away late in the race, and looked like they might pull it off, but they were caught on the hill in the last lap. Dan Swanson won the field sprint, followed by Tony Olson, then Ian Stanford.

I took a look at my Garmin data from the race, and both the Masters 35+ and Cat 1/2 races clicked off about the same lap times. Average speed around 26mph for both races.