the real diehl cyclocross 2023
September 10, 2023Race Info #
- Tech Guide
- Location: Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary - Cochrane
- Course: stravalink
“The Real Diehl” Cyclocross
Peloton’s first CX race they’ve put on. Swag included a UCI tire checker.
Results #
Expert Men #
- Scott DESMARAIS
- Spencer POOTZ
- Larix HALLETT1
Novice Men #
- Joel DYCK
- William LEMIEUX
- Douglas GRAY
Open Men #
- Andrew DAVIDSON
- Shawn BUNNIN
- Mark KNOLL
Open Women #
- Pepper HARLTON
- Kelsey DUFFIELD
- Nico KNOLL
Sport Men #
- Nigel BAINES
- Robert MARTENS
- Garth STOTTS
Sport Women #
- Alina CUSTODIO
- Hazel ROBERTS
- Elané FERGUSON
My Results #
- Did not race.
Read More #
On checking his results it appears Hallett is a really good CX racer. The day before at Deadgoat SuperCross, Larix was racing in Sport Men, which he won. In 2022 he was an Under-17 rider where he won 2 Novice class races and got bumped up to Sport, where he won in his fourth race entered. He hasn’t finished out of the top 5 in an ABA race since 2019. ↩︎
deadgoat supercross 2023
September 9, 2023Race Info #
- Tech Guide
- Location: Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary - Cochrane
- Course: stravalink1
It looks like this was a hot and windy race.
Results #
Expert Men #
- Scott DESMARAIS
- Emile VOGEL-NAKAMURA
- Spencer POOTZ
Novice Men #
- Joel DYCK
- Karol SIARKA
- Quinten MACKLEM
Open Men #
- Andrew DAVIDSON
- Shawn BUNNIN
- Mark KNOLL
Open Women #
- Sidney MCGILL
- Ella MYERS
- Nico KNOLL
Sport Men #
- Larix HALLETT
- Patrick MCCRADY
- Nigel BAINES
Sport Women #
- Avree COLLING
- Hazel ROBERTS
- Hilary BUCKLEY
My Results #
- Did not race.
Read More #
2021 version. No segment for the 2023 specific race. ↩︎
velocity cross 2023 - smoked out
September 3, 2023Race Info #
- Tech Guide
- Location: Strathcona Science Park
- Course: stravalink (shared with Tubs on Tubs)
Sidney McGill was going to be racing in the Open Men category and I was really excited to see her, and to race in the Novice Men, but by 7am the AQHI was over 10 and no one wanted to get blacklung for a race (also the Alberta Bicycle Association won’t let you do anything if the index is over 7). It sucked, but there wasn’t anything else to do about it.
tubs on tubs supercalifragilisticexpialidocius prestige 2023
September 2, 2023Race Info #
- Tech Guide
- Location: Strathcona Science Park
- Course: stravalink
Tubs on Tubs Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius Prestige was the race that was going to open up the 2023 ABA CX season. And it did for the Novice Men, Sport Men and Sport Women categories, but sadly, the AQHI hit 11 and the afternoon races had to be cancelled (along with the next day’s entire Velocity CX Race).
But I got my race in, and it was really fun! I was fighting for a good position at the beginning and because I was pushing too hard on the off-camber turns, I wiped out a bit in the long grass. Then coming out of the big downhill I cut the corner a little too close and got caught up in the course tape, which cost me time.
midweek racing
August 31, 2023As part of my season preparations I decided to at least try the midweek cx racing that goes on in Edmonton. It’s a bit weird because it’s so casual and hard to find information about. There are people asking questions in the Alberta CX Facebook group and you get a response with a screenshot from somewhere(?) giving a schedule. It seems that the people who know, know.
And holy crap did a lot of people know about it last night!
preparing for a season
August 29, 2023The Alberta Bicycle Association Cyclo-cross Cup begins this weekend with the Tubs on Tubs race and the Velocity CX and I am excited.
These races take place at Strathcona Science Park, which is a five minute ride from my house, so it’s my closest thing to a “home” race and where I do most of my ripping around on grass to practice ‘crossing. The other day I was out there and saw someone else also riding around on the grass and flagged her down. Turned out she was one of the race organizers planning out the course.
'cross is coming (2023 edition)
August 24, 2023It is August and ‘Cross is Coming1. I’m getting excited because cyclocross2 is for whatever reason my favourite kind of bike racing.
I say “for whatever reason” because it doesn’t seem intuitive to me that this would be my favourite. I’m not a big powerful rider pushing massive watts. I fall over a lot riding around on rough terrain. I don’t like being cold and wet.
But yet, when I did my first cyclocross race I enjoyed it. I came back last year to do more. And even though I’m in the slowest category racing against kids and old guys, I really like it. I feel exhausted at the end of a race but I want to do it again.
velocity criterium 2023
July 9, 2023Our club put on a criterium and in my effort to try out a few different kinds of racing (despite being a slowpoke) I entered. I rode in the Citizen class again because that’s the type of license I got for the season. This time there were three riders instead of two at the Stieda race earlier. The other guys (despite being in Citizen where all genders can enter, we were all dudes) had raced the day before with the iGregari SugarBoddy Criterium, which was on the same course but in the opposite direction.
go team optimism
May 30, 2023I joined a cycling club in 2023 and we have a coach. I have never had a coach before. I haven’t ever really done sports so I don’t know what a coach is supposed to do. But Kevin seems earnest and nice and is trying so hard to be helpful.
Before this season’s first race he held a racers’ meeting to go over the course using veloviewer and to talk about tactics and what we should be doing before a race. I was at work that night, so I asked if he’d be able to record it and he did. He talked about wind directions and planning and prep and where to attack the group if we had the legs.
stieda classic 2023
May 27, 2023We only had two people in my category for this race. The category being Citizen, which is supposed to be a mixed gender, less intense beginner kind of racing. The other guy, Keith, was also part of my cycling club but he said he was only in this class by mistake. He was confused and could probably have been in the Mens’ Category 4. But there we were.
We got to start with the Women Cat 4 group which was awesome. They pushed me hard and did all the work so I just had to hang with the bunch. And I did. I went the fastest I’d ever done 40km.