Race Day Sunday - BASP #4 - Golden Gate Park

This was a hard-to-believe day of cyclocross racing for the end of November – we had beautiful sunny weather, great trail conditions (but not enough mud?) and a fantastic turnout.

We had more than 20 people out to support Team AC, including all families of the Petersons, Taylors, Howards, Foxes and Siegels, as well as Chad and Ian from Above Category, Jack French our team photographer/griller, Megan’s brother Chad, and our friends Heather and Jay (probably others that I also lost count of).

I know that several people had cameras, notably Jack French, Ken Howard and the Taylors, but all you get at this point are my very quick shots – here are photos from today:

http://picasaweb.google.com/glocalize/200811BASP4GoldenGatePark#

In addition to our usual suspects (Skyler, Alex, Spence, Bob, Bjorn, Isaiah, Blair and Tom Fox), Claire returned for more racing, and a new first timer, Cole (also from MV Middle School) decided to try his efforts at ‘cross. We had seven riders sporting Team AC colors, one of the largest (and most frequently heard over the PA) teams on the roster.

There was copious food for all, with special thanks to Meg who brought huge quantities of grilled chicken skewers, potatoes, sausages and other snacks. The Petersons brought all the barbeque equipment and the Team AC tent, and also loaded us up with sausages to keep everyone well fed!

Results were as follows (as far as I can recall):

Junior Men - U18
Bjorn Fox – First Place (Leader’s Jersey)
Isaiah Rapko – Third Place (mechanical)
Cole Campton – finished his first cyclocross race!

Junior Men – U14
Spence Peterson – First Place (Leader’s Jersey)
Bob Siegel – Second Place (tied for lead in series)
Alex Howard – Third Place
Skyler Taylor – Fourth Place

Masters Men 45+ B’s
Blair Peterson – Fourth Place (jumped on podium during single-speed race!)

Women C
Claire Siegel – finished her SECOND cyclocross ever

Not sure about single speed – Blair finished pretty well, the boys just cruised it…
SO – our next outing is BASP #5 – next Sunday, December 7th at Coyote Point, San Mateo.

The championship race is on between Spence and Bob, Bjorn and Isaiah! Should be an exciting finale!