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Jan
14

Cyclocross Masters Worlds Day 3

Another challenging day out on the course in Louisville! With the temperatures remaining below freezing throughout the day on Friday and overnight into Saturday, the course remained a maze of unforgiving frozen ruts. Course workers continued to shift the course tape around and bring in sand on a couple of the worst sections of ruts to make the course a bit less treacherous for the 6 Championship races on Saturday.  

The course improvements helped to decrease lap times and make for some tighter fields, but bike handling skills remained a crucial partner to powerful riding for those who hoped to do well in their races. As the sun began to shine in the morning, parts of the course began to soften up a bit, creating a slick layer of greasy mud on top of the frozen ruts. By the afternoon races, the pits were once again in heavy use as bikes became heavily laden with a mix of mud ice.

 

The first Championship Womens race went off in
the morning.Lisa Hudson representing for Colorado.Tough Girls Team rider Rebecca Gross took the Gold in her
race.More women's action from the morning races. Dicing through the trees takes on a whole new aspect when
your riding across deep frozen ruts.Steve Tilford takes the whole shot, avoiding the mayhem
behind. He went on to take the Gold.Speedplay along the tape.John Bliss from Boulder
CO. gets of to a clean start in the 50-54 race.CX racing became much more of a contact sport this
weekend in Louisville.Dirk sighting.Tilford on the move.That's Tim Allen and the Feedback Sports crew from
Colorado working on Chris Cases bike during the 35-39 race.Another MTB legend, Gunner Shogren, gave chase to Steve
Tilford, but Tilford would have none of it. Shogren ended up third.Churning up the one of the run ups.More Dirk sightings.

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