Sunshine Coaster report April 30, 2016
First off I
want to thank our sponsors for making it possible to do fun trips such as this one.
- Eatmore Sprouts and Greens
Ltd.
- Royal LePage - Rob Nygren
Since this
race was in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast we needed to do a lot of traveling.
The trip
started when my dad came and picked me up from school so we could drive to Comox
and catch a ride with the Nilson’s. Well we made it to the Comox ferry on time
but the night went downhill from there, with the Powell River ferry running
half hour late we got to the Salterry Bay ferry terminal just in time to see
the ferry leave. Although they said they did hold it up for seven minutes…. so
we waited the four hours for the next ferry.
In that time we went on a really easy ride where I managed to flip over
and tear the line on my dropper post. Eventually we got to the bed and
breakfast (which was really nice)in time to get to sleep at twelve and wake up
at seven. Then we were off to the race.
The course
started with a steep and long road climb, then into some rooty single track,
then across a road to some loose and steep switchbacks. Finally we started the descent, you go down
some semi flowy fun trails with a super sharp corner every now and then just to
throw you off. The bottom of the course had this weird illusion that you were
still going up, probably because my seat post was broken. After the race was over
some of us were pretty tired.
Congratulations
to all the racers who participated!
here’s how
the team did: Emilly Jhonston coming 1st u15 women and was the first woman to
finish the course.
In u15 men Erik Ashton was 1st, I was 4th place (not bad for
a first provincial race with a broken dropper post and remnants of a cold
) and Ian lehton in 5th place.
Keiran Nilsen coming
3rd in u17 even with a bad cold.
On the dad side of things Chuck Ashton came 4th in over 40 men and hats
off to Dan Lehton being the only one to tackle the marathon length!!
