CCCX II Fort Ord

The second race of the CCCX series saw slightly smaller fields in some cases, larger fields in others. Our team is still not fully present at the races as many of the team are waiting until October to start. This didn't keep the team from having a dominant showing for the second week in a row.

The juniors and C groups started off early with the boy's 10-14 where we were well represented:

10-14  Mac Tomkins 2nd, Remy Schmidt 3rd.
15-18 Peter Vahlberg 5th

Open C race
Enzo Sapojnikoff 1st.

 In the B wave we had limited but good results:

Open B race
Enzo Sapojnikoff 1st
Joey Kochlacs  4th

Men's 45 B
Eric Werner  4th

 The masters A races saw a few of our team do well

35 A race
Ben Dodge 2nd.
45 A race
John Vahlberg 19th
55 + race
Detlef Adam 4th
Manny Affonso 7th
60+ race
Paul Sadoff 3rd
Mark Hubbell 4th

 In the single speed A race there were only two but Kyle Taylor managed a convincing win in his first try .

In the Women's A race we had only one entrant but it was Hannah Dillard and the pace she set was more than enough to beat the field. She is undefeated so far in the series.

After last week's near miss, Brendan Lehman got his first ever elite CX win-riding at the front and wearing everyone down until he was alone at the end. He got the win and now has the series lead.

Men's A race:
Brendan Lehman 1st
Ben Dodge         11th
Eric Brown         13th
Nate Vahlberg     16th
Ian Stowe            17th

With no races in the coming week there will be time for team folks to do other events such as the Old Growth classic. Several of the team will be there- it isn't a CX event but it is the dirt and it is local.

CCCX opener

 Kathleen Bortolussi opting to race in the A race rather than in her age group. She finished on the lead lap in 5th.

Brendan Lehman led the men's A race from the first lap and came within one second of winning it.

Plenty of great results here-the team came to the first local race and put in a dominant performance. The juniors started the day early in the morning with some great riding.

Open men's C

Enzo Sapojnikoff   1st.

Junior boy's 10-14

Colin Manalang 1st, Jason Burgess 2nd, Remy Schmidt 4th, Mac Tomkins 5th, Cullen Keefe 6th, Matthew Werner 9th.

Junior boy's 15-18   

Dylan Gong 1st, Peter Bissell 6th, Jayden Cheung 7th, Zain Huq 9th, Nicolas Goumas 10th, Korben Tomkin 11th.

Junior girls 15-18 Shilpa Rao 1st.

Men's open B race
Enzo Sapojnikoff 1st
Dylan Gong 5th
Manny Affonso jr. 12th.

Master's B 45+

Eric Werner 4th

Single Speed B

Kyle Taylor 1st.

Men's 55+

Detlef Adam 6th

Men's 60+

Rick Ortenblad 2nd

Paul Sadoff 3rd.

Women's A race

Hannah Dillard 1st

Kathleen Bortolussi 5th

Men's A race 

Brendan Lehman 2nd

Ian Stowe 14th

Dean Poshard 16th

Ben Dodge 17th.

Some people had best ever showings and there are people yet to race who will shake things up even more at the bay area cyclocross scene. Newcomer Hannah Dillard had her first elite win- Brendan Lehman nearly had his first elite win as well. Ben Dodge had an excellent 2nd in the 35 A race. Kyle Taylor might look at upgrading to the single speed A race as he looked pretty far ahead of the B field.

This coming weekend will be at the same Ft. Ord location -hopefully we will have a similar showing.