Wednesday afternoon 5 of us headed over to V.A. to race a High School League Mountain Bike Race. It was a really cool event and the Nordies from SMS had a blast. It was an awesome workout with race times from 20 min(girls) to over an hour (A race).
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There were tons of riders in the four levels of races. A, B, C, Girls.
Vermont Academy had a pretty technical course complete with wet, slick as snot rocks, roots, rock drops, ledge climbs, berms, whoops and jumps.
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Jack the “Mountain Goat” on the line
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The lead A riders on the start hill. Jack in 4th.
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We know these dudes, Scott trailing Oggie Levins. Oggie’s older brother and sisters do quite a bit of training with us. Oggie stays busy with mountain biking and building trails in the now Famous Pine Hill Park in Rutland.
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Koby “Quadzilla” mashed his chain right off the gears in the start and was dead last after 20 seconds.
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A quick spin of the gears and back on course.
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Mr Quadzilla on his way back to the front of the race.
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K.O. tearing it up passing tons of boys during the race.
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Vermont Academy has some super rad trails right on their campus. This section had some corkscrew berms.
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Scott with Koby in hot pursuit. Both of them rode at the front of B race for all 3 laps.
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Jack climbing for a top 10 finish in the 4 lap A race. This was one of the few open non single track sections.
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Scott in 3rd in front of VA rider but by the finish the VA local who was shredding the downhills was up to 2nd place!
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Girls Podium. Katharine looking really really good in second place.
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Koby blasted the pack from last to first in the B race. He finished among the top 10 A riders! Oggie Levins held on for third. Scott was a few seconds back from the podium in 4th.
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Special thanks to Tamra Mooney for the photos!
