March 2009Vancouver Island has a spring series every year, a great way to warm up and fine tune all the bugs before the season starts. This first race was held in Cumberland just down the hill from Mt Washington Alpine Resort. I was lucky enough to be able to travel to Vancouver Island to put a few laps in on the new bike and work on the setup.
The track was awesome! A pedally and flowy upper half dropped into a super fast and rough mid section that spat you into some beautiful turns to the finish line.
Racing on the west coast is done nothing like out east. Wicked tracks and fast riders, but the organization does not exist. Shuttles are only available race day, and expect 1 warm-up at most. Manual timing led to permanent errors in the intermediate class with some unhappy racers never finding out there times, and about a weeks wait for all the results. With little/no course marshalls, racers are on there own if they get hurt. Hopefully there is a fan standing nearby trained to save you if you go down hard.
It was a rather short course that forced riders to be pinned top to bottom. Vancouver Island has produced Canada's top racers for some years now making the competition quite tough. I just squeezed into the top 10, realizing that a bit more aggression was needed against the locals.
| 1 | 121 | Brent Anderson | 31 | 02:08.11 |
| 2 | 119 | Dean Tennant | 20 | 02:10.48 |
| 3 | 276 | Jamie Biluk | 23 | 02:11.45 |
| 4 | 116 | Simon Garstin | 18 | 02:11.86 |
| 5 | 479 | Conner Macleod | 23 | 02:11.86 |
| 6 | 105 | Kyle Marshall | 17 | 02:11.99 |
| 7 | 117 | Mitch Forbes | 25 | 02:13.89 |
| 8 | 115 | Kyle Walstrom | 16 | 02:14.79 |
| 9 | 118 | Harold Woolnough | 21 | 02:15.04 |
| 10 | 110 | Remi Gauvin | 16 | 02:17.39 |
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