Race night! BASP #3 - Sierra Point Cyclocross Bonanza

What a great event – the racing started at Sierra Point early afternoon, and continued into the late hours of the evening.

This time we had a special guest racer – Claire (our daughter) on her FIRST ever ‘cross race. She had not been on her mountain bike in months, but went for it anyway, and did Team AC proud! Several different races and racers – the boys did the Junior race (U18 for Bjorn & Isaiah and U14 for Spence, Alex, Skyler and Bob), Claire did Womens’ C race, Blair did Men’s 45+ and Tom Fox raced Men’s A (I think). Then Blair, Spence and Bob did the singlespeed race at night (it started around 9 PM).

So it was a long day/evening of racing, and barbequing – Jack French spent the day pulling double duty as photographer and griller. Can’t wait to see his photos from this one ;-) Ian Tuttle and a couple of his friends also came to cheer on the Team AC singlespeed squad, so it was a full house in the Team AC tent! We arrived a bit before 2 PM and stayed till past 11 PM.

Pictures of all this at http://picasaweb.google.com/glocalize/200811BASP3SierraPointNightCXRace# - but the photo quality of the night shots isn’t great.

Jack has uploaded some of his (excellent!) photos to Flickr – I suggest you check them out at
http://flickr.com/photos/jackfrench/sets/72157609601366990/

Now, the results:

Junior Men – U14:
First Place Bob Siegel (held on to the leader’s jersey)
Second Place Spence Peterson
Third Place Alex Howard
Fourth Place Skyler Taylor

Junior Men – U18:
First Place Bjorn Fox
Second Place Isaiah Rapko (keeps the leader’s jersey)

Women C:
Claire Siegel 29th Place (out of 37 – for her first race, with NO training!)

I didn’t capture Blair’s finish at the Men’s 45+ race but he seemed to do very well – maybe top 5?

The singlespeed race was a long (60 minute) grueling event and everyone was pretty wiped, but Blair actually looked surprisingly good at the finish!

It was a really fun event – the night racing is an excellent addition to the cross scene, and we were amazed by how warm it was (for mid-November, or for any time at that location). Everyone had a great time.