cycling

velocity cross 2024

October 19, 2024
cycling
cx, races, argyll park, vcc, velocity cross, aba cx cup, race reports, edmonton

Race Info #

This was the race put on by our club so I went out to do at least a bit of help with the setup on the Friday night. Because last year our race got smoked out, people got half price entry for this year. And socks!

My race was forgettable because on the very first lap there was an off-camber bit and my tire went flat[^1]. I hadn’t brought anything to the pit to keep myself going, so I put it up on my shoulder and ran for a couple of kilometres until I got back to the finish line and withdrew from the race.

crosstoberfest turducken prestige 2024 day 2

October 13, 2024
cycling
cx, races, crossbow semiprestige, cyclemeisters, bow cycle, aba cx cup, rutland park, calgary

Race Info #

As part two of the Crosstoberfest Turducken Prestige I imagine this was going to see riders not at their sharpest.

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Ella MYERS
  2. Christiane BILODEAU
  3. Pepper HARLTON

Open Men #

  1. Andrew DAVIDSON
  2. Mark FAGNAN
  3. Finn BORSTMAYER

Expert Men #

  1. Randy PERRY
  2. Adam ROBERTS
  3. Mike SARNECKI

Sport Women #

  1. Hazel ROBERTS
  2. Madeline MAGLEO
  3. Renee ANSEEUW

Sport Men #

  1. Craig VERMETTE
  2. Josh BARKER
  3. Cor SINKE

Novice Men #

  1. Trev WILLIAMS
  2. Emmet MACKLEM
  3. Douglas GRAY

My Results #

  • did not race

Read More #

crosstoberfest turducken prestige 2024 day 1

October 12, 2024
cycling
cx, races, crossbow semiprestige, cyclemeisters, bow cycle, aba cx cup, rutland park, calgary

Race Info #

I was planning to be at this race, but the organizers turned it into a much bigger more exciting event … that happened way too late for me to get back to Edmonton.

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Ella MYERS
  2. Christiane BILODEAU
  3. Pepper HARLTON

Open Men #

  1. Andrew DAVIDSON
  2. Mark FAGNAN
  3. Finn BORSTMAYER

Expert Men #

  1. Randy PERRY
  2. Adam ROBERTS
  3. Mike SARNECKI

Sport Women #

  1. Hazel ROBERTS
  2. Madeline MAGLEO
  3. Renee ANSEEUW

Sport Men #

  1. Craig VERMETTE
  2. Josh BARKER
  3. Cor SINKE

Novice Men #

  1. Trev WILLIAMS
  2. Emmet MACKLEM
  3. Douglas GRAY

My Results #

  • did not race

Read More #

terrascape beans + barley 2024

October 6, 2024
cycling
cx, races, beans n barley, terrascape, aba cx cup, richmond green park, calgary

Race Info #

Day two of a weekend’s racing in Calgary. It looked like a beautiful day for ‘cross racing from the Facebook pictures I’ve seen.

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Annie SCOTT1
  2. Shantel KOENIG2
  3. Justine SAGAN

Open Men #

  1. Mark FAGNAN3
  2. Finn BORSTMAYER4
  3. Andrew DAVIDSON5

Expert Men #

  1. Quinten MACKLEM
  2. Brendan CARDIFF6
  3. Bredy SHEARS

Sport Women #

  1. Sophie ERFLE7
  2. Elané FERGUSON
  3. Gail OREILLY8

Sport Men #

  1. Caleb WRIGHT
  2. Liam BATE
  3. Emmett MACKLEM9

Novice Men #

  1. Finlay ROBERTS10
  2. Christian HEINTZE
  3. Spencer ELLIS

My Results #

  • did not race

Read More #

  1. First place the day before. ↩︎

bicicross 2024

October 5, 2024
cycling
cx, races, bicicross, bicisport, aba cx cup, richmond green park, calgary

Race Info #

At one point in my season planning, I was going to be attending this race, but then things changed and I ended up working an evening shift the night before, which meant I’d need to get up at 4am to get to Calgary the next day, which wasn’t happening. It looked like a beautiful day for ‘cross racing from the Facebook pictures I’ve seen.

puncheur cross 2024

September 29, 2024
cycling
cx, races, voyageur park, puncheur, alberta, provincials, masters, junior, devon, dba

Race Info #

Day two of the Devon races for 2024. I couldn’t make it out, but I heard the runup was much nastier than the day before.

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Christiane BILODEAU1
  2. Annie SCOTT
  3. Chantell WIDNEY

Open Men #

  1. Finn BORSTMAYER2
  2. Moritz ROMEIKE
  3. Andrew DAVIDSON

Expert Men #

  1. Jared GERVAIS
  2. Robert BRUHA
  3. Jason REDFERN3

Sport Women #

  1. Alina CUSTODIO
  2. Morgan PINNOCK
  3. Emily YOUNG4

Sport Men #

  1. Eton KOHLENBERG5
  2. Liam BATE
  3. Vaughn SHEARS

Novice Men #

  1. Aiden SANDMAIER6
  2. Jamie MOORS
  3. Timothy UTTING7

My Results #

  • Did not race

Read More #

  1. First place the day before and second place in 2023. ↩︎

school of cross 2024

September 22, 2024
cycling
cx, races, capilano park, school of cross, ertc, aba cx cup, edmonton, race reports

Race Info #

Part two of the first Edmonton race weekend saw way more people (in my race at least). The course went backwards compared to Jim Horner the previous day. This was good for me because it meant we had a non-technical climb right after the start, and that’s something I’m pretty decent at. It also meant that the switchbacks we’d been climbing on Saturday were now a descent. I’m never super great at these kinds of things and in the pre-ride lots of people were testing and re-testing the lines1. After one wipeout when I was trying to cut it too close, I settled on unclipping my inside foot and dabbing a touch as I went around the steepest part. The best part of this feature was that it would be at the end of the lap so it wouldn’t be a huge mass of riders hitting it at the same time.

jim horner grand prix 2024

September 21, 2024
cycling
cx, races, capilano park, jim horner, juventus, aba cx cup, race reports, edmonton

Race Info #

Sport Men crowd1

The Jim Horner Grand Prix of Cyclo-cross was my first Edmonton race of the season, and it went well. Unlike last year we had clear skies with no Air Quality warnings so all the races happened.

Being in Novice Men, I had an early start while the grass was still dewy and wet. The course opened with a bunch of twisty turns including an uphill off-camber thing (see the picture above of the Sport Men tackling it). I did that switchback okay in practice, but on the opening lap I totally wiped out, delaying a bunch of people behind me. Once that was out of the way though, I had a good race. I was following some people and eventually passed them. I couldn’t quite get in touch with the leaders of the race but I had a pretty good run.

drie zussen superprestige 2024

September 15, 2024
cycling
cx, races, canmore nordic centre, drie zussen, aba cx cup, rmcc, cyclemeisters, bow cycle, canmore

Race Info #

It looks like they used the same course as for the Saturday’s Western Challenge, which I heard was a bit more technical than the pure power you needed to put down in Cochrane the weekend before.

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Christiane BILODEAU1
  2. Shantel KOENIG2
  3. Emma SCOTT3

Open Men #

  1. Finn BORSTMAYER4
  2. Mark FAGNAN5
  3. Oskar STACK-MICHASIW

Expert Men #

  1. Moritz ROMEIKE6
  2. Jared GERVAIS
  3. Devin ERFLE

Sport Women #

  1. Sophie ERFLE
  2. Elané FERGUSON
  3. Anna EGGERS

Sport Men #

  1. Emmett MACKLEM7
  2. Lee WOOD
  3. Caleb WRIGHT

Novice Men #

  1. Luke OSTREM
  2. Maxime BRUN
  3. Reed MCARTHUR

My Results #

  • Did not race

Read More #

  1. First place in 2023. First place the day before. ↩︎