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GT News: Boulder Cup & Redline Cup Results

My cyclocross season officially got underway this weekend up on the Front Range.  I didn’t even have to get on a plane to get to the races either. Awesome!  I was planning on starting my cross campaign last weekend at the first USGP, but got sick instead.
 
Saturday was a C2 event held at the Boulder reservoir--the same start and finish area as the Boulder Roubaix Road Race uses.  The course consisted of quite a few loose turns, 30 mph winds, long sand pits, and one set of bunny-hoppable barriers.  Normally I would have to start in the back since I didn’t do any UCI races before the points reset; this weekend though, the UCI officials mixed up my name with my brother’s who had points, but was racing somewhere else, so I got a front row call up.  Lucked out again! 
 
So the Redline Cup race went pretty well.  I ended up 3rd. I rode half a lap to the pit with a front flat with only one lap left to go. I was barely able to hold off a charging Kabush.  The 2nd day was the Boulder Cup--a C1 held at a middle school in the heart of Boulder. They said there were 2,500 spectators there, and I believe it.  This course consisted of much more grass, with wide open turns, 25 mph winds, a few sand pits and a set of barriers I was able to hop before a climb you would normally have to run.   
 
This race didn’t go as well as the previous day. I broke my chain right after the pit on the 2nd lap and had run/skate board kick with my bike for half a lap.  I got passed by the entire field since it was less then 10 minutes into the race.  Once I got a new bike I made up about 50 places but that was only good enough for 8th place.  It was good considering the circumstances, but I was hoping for much more.
 
All in all the weekend was a success.  The courses were fun, the temps were in the low 70s, but most of all, it was great to get back out there racing with everyone.  Next weekend we have two new UCI venues--one is in Gunnison, which will be the highest elevation UCI race ever, and the other one is in my hometown of Durango, CO. I’m going to try and add pictures to these reports from now since I got a new camera after losing my old one to a tubing accident in the river this summer.
 
Thanks for your support!
 
Todd Wells
 

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