Thursday night was the 3rd XCOTTAWA.CA Duathlon held at Nakkertok, back by popular demand. With a super busy racing schedule, both for NCD and for XC Ottawa this year’s race was held at night. It was a big success and, for me, brought back memories of the Bailey’s night races at Lappe in Thunder Bay. Somehow racing in the dark is more exciting and feels more casual.
Thanks very much to Dave Mallory for both grooming and coming up with the fun course, featuring a brand-new downhill corner which was a popular spectating location.
Also, thanks to all our helpers. Given the small size of our team, we couldn’t have pulled this race off without you.
Here are the results from the race:
Midget Boys and Younger
1 Timothy Austin 12:32
2 Marcus Nussbaum 12:42
3 Teo Sanchez 14:07
4 Eric Nussbaum (mini-midget) 15:02
5 Nolan Scheier 16:18
6 Miles Betteridge 16:19
7 Alonzo Sanchez (atom) 20.01
Midget Girls
1 Rozie Brochu 12:38
2 Keria Niemi 13:28
3 Phoebe Berkeley 13:42
4 Laura Williams 13:56
5 Leanne Weller 14:35
6 Willa Mason 17:09
Juvenile Boys
1 Chris Weller 25:25
2 Cary Pomeroy 26:36
3 Ryan Fahey 28:16
4 Thomas McKenna 28:26
5 Jesse Williams 29:21
6 Marshal Phillip 29:42
Junior/Senior Men
1 Steffan Loyd 23:07
2 Karl Saidla 23:09
3 Andrew Stewart-Jones 23:16
4 Patrick Stewart-Jones 23:23
5 Aidan Lennie 23:53
6 Matthias Purdon 24:26
7 Nansen Weber 24:34
8 Kyle Power 25:25
9 Robbie Anderson 26:21
10 Michael Abbot 26:28
11 Chris Halldorson 26:49
12 Kristian Medri 29:06
13 Colin Huang 35:42
Junior/Senior Women
1 Megan McTavish 27:54
2 Kaisa Lindfors 33:36
Master’s Men
1 Kevin Jones 26:41
2 Eric Betteridge 29:12
3 Etienne Grall 30:03
4 Chris Nussbaum 30:49
5 Stephen Cann 32:02
6 Colin Campbell 34:20
7 Bryan Morris 35:26
8 Paul Mason 37:44
DNF Ian Joiner
Master’s Women
1 Jen Adams 33:54
And here are some great pictures taken by Sheila Kealey.
Andrew Stewart-Jones setting up his box
The front row of the open mass start
Me, excited to race after lots of organizing
Evan and Lois - our wonderful bib collectors
Evan Lewis Kealey - with his laundry basket full of bibs
The Yukon Boys - out to help organize
Also, check out on of our fabulous volunteer’s blog -Ken Trischuk– featuring some really cool night racing action photos.
http://kenmores.blogspot.com/2010/03/night-at-races.html