CXHB hosted its second race of the winter cyclocross series today Sunday at Pan Pac’s Eskdale MTB park and it proved to be the perfect course for all involved. No rain or wind perfect cool conditions and due to bucket loads of rain during the week we have heaps of mud!!
The course used was modified due to flood water on many of the tracks, so one of the testing climbs was eliminated due to safety, however the revised route without much in the way of hills proved to be just as testing. Several jumps were added to make things more challenging but all in all it was pretty much as hard as it gets.
Recently crowned NZ Champ Dan Warren took out the A Race is style clearing out from his rivals, Josh Page coming in second and Gary Hall after loosing a lot of ground from braking his chain and riding a borrowed bike rode extremely well to get up for 3rd place over taking Blair Heney (4th) in the final lap. The first lady home in the A race was Hayley Davis and the first junior was Ben Ross.
The B race was dominated by Richard Mills who cleared out early and was never pulled back in taking first place followed by a close match with Laura Harris and Ashleigh Neave ..neck and neck until the fianl lap. Ashleigh lost valuable time in the mud along with fatigue setting in allowing Laura to take second place ahead of a fast finishing Gareth Howard.
The kids race was a shorter course but had its fair share of mud and water to deal with. Mitchell Heney came out on top with Jacob Cooper second and a close sprint to the line for 3rd and 4th between Ben and Kiri Gouldsbrough, Ben coming in a few bike lengths ahead of Kiri.
Our next events:
Race 3: 14th August Roys Hill- Highway 50 Hastings
Race 4: 28th Chesterhope Park/ Pakowhai Hastings
Full results will be posted Monday night.
For Photos see the link on the previous post.
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