aba cx cup

baby walter cross 2023 - day 2

October 15, 2023
cycling
cx, races, queen elizabeth park, baby walter, alberta cx collective, aba cx cup, race reports, edmonton

Race Info #

I had hoped to do more racing this year, but it turned out that four was what I could handle with my work and other life commitments. So the second day of Baby Walter Cross was my season closer.

In the Leaves Defending 12th - photo by Stewart “The Legend” Hutchings1

The course this year went the opposite direction of 2022 which I think I preferred. The climbing of the stupid hill was still tough, but the descents weren’t terrifying and we got to skip the runup in favour of a singletrack descent (with roots that were highlighted but you needed to dodge).

baby walter cross 2023 - day 1

October 14, 2023
cycling
cx, races, queen elizabeth park, baby walter, alberta cx collective, aba cx cup, edmonton

Race Info #

Baby Walter Cross is a two-day race put on by the Alberta Cyclocross Collective, which isn’t a club exactly, just all the cx lovers in Edmonton. The park has a really big hill, which makes for a lot of climbing.

Apparently on the Saturday race (which I didn’t attend) there were some big crashes by people trying to bunny-hop the obstacles and failing badly. One of them happened when the rider came unclipped between barriers, but I don’t think there were too huge of injuries.

terrascape beans + barley 2023

October 8, 2023
cycling
cx, races, beans n barley, terrascape, aba cx cup, richmond green park, calgary

Race Info #

I missed out on writing this up at the end of the 2023 CX season, and now that 2024 has come around, I don’t have a bunch of the data I like to put in these race writeups. Nonetheless, here’s what I can find (thankfully I did do my CrossResults upload back when the race happened).

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Jenaya FRANCIS
  2. Nico KNOLL
  3. Francesca SEAL

Open Men #

  1. Eric BERG
  2. Ryan MACLEAN
  3. Mark FAGNAN

Expert Men #

  1. Larix HALLETT
  2. Emile VOGEL-NAKAMURA
  3. Spencer POOTZ

Sport Women #

  1. Tayte PROULX-ROYDS
  2. Hazel ROBERTS
  3. Kathryn SWEENEY

Sport Men #

  1. Joel DYCK
  2. Sean SWEENEY
  3. Brendan CARDIFF1

Novice Men #

  1. Cor SINKE
  2. William LEMIEUX
  3. Emmet MACKLEM

My Results #

  • did not race

Read More #

  1. Velocity Cycling Club woo! ↩︎

bicicross 2023

October 7, 2023
cycling
cx, races, bicicross, bicisport, aba cx cup, richmond green park, calgary

Race Info #

I missed out on writing this up at the end of the 2023 CX season, and now that 2024 has come around, I don’t have a bunch of the data I like to put in these race writeups. Nonetheless, here’s what I can find (thankfully I did do my CrossResults upload back when the race happened).

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Jenaya FRANCIS
  2. Nico KNOLL
  3. Kelsey DUFFIELD

Open Men #

  1. Eric BERG
  2. Andrew DAVIDSON
  3. Mark FAGNAN

Expert Men #

  1. Emile VOGEL-NAKAMURA
  2. Larix HALLETT
  3. Spencer POOTZ

Sport Women #

  1. Tayte PROULX-ROYDS
  2. Kathryn SWEENEY
  3. Hazel ROBERTS

Sport Men #

  1. Joel DYCK
  2. Clarke ELLIS
  3. Sean SWEENEY

Novice Men #

  1. William LEMIEUX
  2. Carson BROWN
  3. Douglas GRAY

My Results #

  • did not race

Read More #

hardcore hop n hurl 2023

September 30, 2023
cycling
cx, races, voyageur park, hop n hurl, hardcore cc, devon, training, crash, aba cx cup, race reports

Race Info #

I came into this race knowing that last year’s Puncheur Cross was my favourite. Unfortunately I had a training crash the Tuesday before this race, which put me in kind of a bad place. Mostly scraped up, but also a bit of a bruised wrist and some bruised ribs. I figured I’d be okay to race still, but I wasn’t setting my expectations too high.

drie zussen superprestige 2023

September 24, 2023
cycling
cx, races, canmore nordic centre, drie zussen, aba cx cup, rmcc, cyclemeisters, canmore

Race Info #

ABA Cup race. Construction on the course. Looked beautiful in the mountains. This is where I’d like to go for a travelling race next year.

Results #

Open Women #

  1. Christiane BILODEAU
  2. Nico KNOLL
  3. Kelsey DUFFIELD

Open Men #

  1. Mark FAGNAN
  2. Finn BORSTMAYER
  3. Eric BERG

Expert Men #

  1. Jacob PLAYFAIR
  2. Larix HALLETT
  3. Brett GREINER

Sport Women #

  1. Lydia STACK-MICHASIW
  2. Daena SIDNEY
  3. Kathryn SWEENEY

Sport Men #

  1. Patrick MCCRADY
  2. Nigel BAINES
  3. Sean SWEENEY

Novice Men #

  1. Petr HOLUB
  2. Mitchell ROBERTS
  3. Emmett MACKLEM

My Results #

  • Did not race

Read More #

school of cross 2023

September 17, 2023
cycling
cx, races, capilano park, school of cross, ertc, aba cx cup, edmonton

Race Info #

Like the previous day’s Jim Horner Grand Prix ERTC’s School of Cross (p/b Blindman Brewing) 2023 race happened in Capilano Park. The air quality was a bit better on the day so only one race was cancelled (Open Women).

Results #

Open Men #

  1. Mark FAGNAN
  2. Graham FRANCIS
  3. Ryan MCLEAN

Expert Men #

  1. Paulo ALVES 1
  2. Jacob PLAYFAIR
  3. Randy PERRY

Sport Women #

  1. Rachel DUMONT [^3]
  2. Kristin BAKER
  3. Madeline MAGLEO

Sport Men #

  1. Ethan MCGHAN
  2. Ryan ARYCHUK
  3. Colin WEIR CHABA

Novice Men #

  1. Quinten MACKLEM2
  2. Emmett MACKLEM
  3. Evan KINDZIERSKI

My Results #

  • Did not race

Read More #

  1. Earned promotion up to Open Men, with his second win (in a row, following JHGP) in Expert. ↩︎

jim horner grand prix 2023

September 16, 2023
cycling
cx, races, capilano park, jim horner, juventus, aba cx cup, race reports, edmonton

Race Info #

I was so happy this race wasn’t taking place in Argyll Park this year. I hated the downhill that someone broke a collarbone on last year and lost so much time on it. Capilano Park was near my house and I could practice on it. But I didn’t practice hard enough on wet enough grass, because hoo boy did I not do well on that terrain.

the real diehl cyclocross 2023

September 10, 2023
cycling
cx, races, southern baptist seminary, peloton, aba cx cup, cochrane

Race Info #

“The Real Diehl” Cyclocross

Peloton’s first CX race they’ve put on. Swag included a UCI tire checker.

Results #

Expert Men #

  1. Scott DESMARAIS
  2. Spencer POOTZ
  3. Larix HALLETT1

Novice Men #

  1. Joel DYCK
  2. William LEMIEUX
  3. Douglas GRAY

Open Men #

  1. Andrew DAVIDSON
  2. Shawn BUNNIN
  3. Mark KNOLL

Open Women #

  1. Pepper HARLTON
  2. Kelsey DUFFIELD
  3. Nico KNOLL

Sport Men #

  1. Nigel BAINES
  2. Robert MARTENS
  3. Garth STOTTS

Sport Women #

  1. Alina CUSTODIO
  2. Hazel ROBERTS
  3. Elané FERGUSON

My Results #

  • Did not race.

Read More #

  1. 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, 2023
cycling
cx, races, southern baptist seminary, aba cx cup, deadgoat, cochrane

Race Info #

It looks like this was a hot and windy race.

Results #

Expert Men #

  1. Scott DESMARAIS
  2. Emile VOGEL-NAKAMURA
  3. Spencer POOTZ

Novice Men #

  1. Joel DYCK
  2. Karol SIARKA
  3. Quinten MACKLEM

Open Men #

  1. Andrew DAVIDSON
  2. Shawn BUNNIN
  3. Mark KNOLL

Open Women #

  1. Sidney MCGILL
  2. Ella MYERS
  3. Nico KNOLL

Sport Men #

  1. Larix HALLETT
  2. Patrick MCCRADY
  3. Nigel BAINES

Sport Women #

  1. Avree COLLING
  2. Hazel ROBERTS
  3. Hilary BUCKLEY

My Results #

  • Did not race.

Read More #

  1. 2021 version. No segment for the 2023 specific race. ↩︎