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Cross Crusade #1 Alpenrose Dairy

Monday, October 4th, 2010

It’s that time of year again!  After a great warmup for cross with the season opener here in Hood River with the Hood River Double Cross we were all primed and ready for the Cross Crusade (http://www.crosscrusade.com/default.htm)  It got it’s start this past Sunday at Alpenrose Dairy where another record was broken with just over 1500 racers lining up at the start.  At the beginning of the women’s start the announcer stated that there were more women lined up there than every other cross series in the country combined!!  Way to go Oregon!!

Team Mountain View did well on the day and had 25 total starts in almost every category.  Of these 25 we had nine riders get into points with a total of 98 team points awarded.  Julie and Taylor were the big point winners with their 2nd place finishes while Tre, Zack and I rounded out the other top 10 finishers (I have to mention that Andrew got 11th and missed top 10 by 1 spot!!)

Ed, Gregg and Kristi rounded out our other top 18 finishers pulling in points for the team.

Alpenrose is probably my favorite venue as it had us racing on gravel, BUMPY grass, pavement through an old western town, dirt, concrete stairs, barriers, and even in the velodrome!!  The folks at Cross Crusade and OBRA (www.obra.org) really manage this huge race very well!

Even the Kiddie-Cross is a huge event here and they had 256 kids under 12 years old line up for the race.  My boy Camden – just 4 yrs old – lined up for the smaller kids race as I was not sure I wanted him racing with the older kids and doing the full 1.5 mile lap around the whole course but at the start he sped off the front of the small kids and caught up with the bigger kids!  He managed to pass quite a few as he rode the entire length of the race and only needed help getting his bike over the barriers and up the stairs!  He is fun to watch and I am a very proud daddy!!

Next week we will be at Rainier High School for the Cross Crusade #2!!  Can’t wait to see you there!!

http://www.crosscrusade.com/flyers/2010/october_10.html

Cheers,

Eric

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