races

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. ↩︎

velocity cross 2023 - smoked out

September 3, 2023
cycling
cx, races, strathcona science park, vcc, velocity cross, aba cx cup, edmonton, wildfires

Race Info #

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, 2023
cycling
cx, races, strathcona science park, aba cx cup, edmonton, tubs on tubs, prw, race reports

Race Info #

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, 2023
cycling
cx, races, training, capilano park

As 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, 2023
cycling
cx, races, aba cx cup, training

The 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, 2023
cycling
cx, races, stats

It 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, 2023
cycling
crit, races, vcc, edmonton, race reports

Our 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.