This is about a month late but I had a long wait for the results for this race to be posted. The long wait was worth it as the team came to this race with a number of people missing and still put on a dominant performance- no less than six NCNCA district championships and many medals were awarded to team riders. We had enough people there at Manzanita park that if we had not shown up, the race would have been a tiny affair.
In the morning our juniors tore it up with some great performances all around. In the junior boy's 10-12 race Noam Gilat placed 2nd. with Noah Hekkert in 5th. In the boy's 13-14 Boaz Cohen finished 3rd, Remy Schmidt 5th , and Matt Werner 8th. In the boy's 15-16 Mac Tomkins finished 5th with Sterling Woodson 8th.
In the boy's 17-18 Nate Vahlberg got the win with Austin Fowlkes 3rd, Jonah Pirnejad 4th and Korben Tomkin 5th, nearly a sweep of the podium.
Next up were the B categories with Dylan Gong taking the win in the open B race followed by Nathan Delaney in 6th. In the 45 B race Eric Werner finished 2nd with Michael Schaller coming in 4th.
The next wave of racers were the master's A's. In the 45 A race John Vahlberg finished 12th with Carl Hekkert finishing 15th. In the men's 65 + I rode alone so I got the win - hey, its a rare win so I'll take it.
Next up were the women's races with Kate Hochler winning the open B race. Christy Vahlberg finished 3rd in the 45+ age group. Hannah Dillard took the win in the women's single speed race.
Las races of the day started with men's A single speed with Dylan Gong making the podium for the second time coming in 3rd. He was followed by Kyle Taylor in 4th.
Last up was the Elite men's A race. We had the numbers in this field and the results were good with Brendan Lehman coming in 3rd,Cole Williams in 5th, Austin King in 6th and Joey Kochlacs the title sponsor in 7th.
What a way to cap off the first real season since 2019. With luck, 2022 will be even bigger with more races and more participants. 2022 will also be the beginning of the first official gravel team headed up by Joey Kochlacs. More on that soon- it made sense to create a gravel squad as a number of people on the team already had been doing the events for the last few years. Now, they will be doing the rides in the team kit and the whole program will be more structured.
