Results!!! Sorry for the delay, but in Meat's own words: "Having jobs is stupid!" Race report to follow.

	New Brighton Superprestige
	29-Sep-12
Master 1/2 Men
	Pos	bib #
Chris McNeil	1	114
Martin Bojesen	2	107
Brad Collins	3	104
John Benskin	4	109
John Irvine	5	117
Brad Issel	6	119
David Kvick	7	121
Rick Rodland	8	115
Kalle Karu	9	103
Dale Ewanchook	10	108
Scott McGregor	11	113
Colin Campbell	12	118
Pete Holzhuter	13	101
Joshua Weiss	14	106
Brent Hambleton	15	112
Keith Wilson	16	105
Mathew Drown	DNF	111
Elite Men 1/2
	pos	bib #
Steve Fisher	1	102
Aaron Schooler	2	15
Kevin Noiles	3	11
Kevin Calhoun	4	2
Andrew Pinfold	5	16
Bob Welbourn	6	7
Sven Sturm	7	12
Mike Berkenpas	8	3
Wai-Ben Wong	9	9
Brett Wakefield	10	6
Trevor Pearson	1 lap down	5
Sherwood Plant		8
Richard Machein		10
Louis Dillon		14
Ian Robertson	2 laps down	14
Single Speed
	pos	bib #
Nick Berry	1	209
Niels Steiner	2	206
Bart Nakano	3	202
Scott Sportsman	4	203
Mark Oldenburg	5	204
Lucas Gallager	6	207
Ashley Stotts	7	205
Robert Airey	8	208
Open Women
	pos	bib #
Mical Dyck	1	172
Jean Ann Berkenpas	2	176
Jenny Lehmann	3	178
Heidi Manicke	4	177
Talita Almeida	2 laps down	171
Ivy Andrain	DNF	174
Caitlin Reimer	DNS
Master Women
	pos	bib #
Katie Lotterhos	1	185
Emily Sportsman	2	138
Karen Fedoruk	2	187
Karen Todd	4	184
Bobbi Handford	5	183
Corinne Issel	6	182
Nikki Licht	7	181
Master Men 3/4
	pos	bib #
Aaron Weiss	1	61
Vincent Marcotte	2	60
Dan Gronross	3	59
Dougls Ritchie	4	139
Ray Lachance	5	71
Sheldon Orr	6	131
Bob Chew	7	72
Andrew Summers	8	68
Ryan Kazakoff	9	133
Patrick Beckstead	10	62
Ted Matson	11	52
Kurt Withers	12	54
Jeff Hanninen	13	134
Chiron Kantakis	14	67
Jason Bond	15	135
Michael Dolling	16	130
Brian Willock	17	70
John Tani	18	132
Regan Pringle	19	57
Tobin Copely	20	58
Dave Collins	21	66
Brian Greening	22	90
Steve Cooper	23	120
Jay Loder	24	63
Andrew Lea	25	137
Michael McClure	26	74
Brian Gunn	27	73
John Wong	28	75
Scott Wilson	1 lap down	55
Chris Hardwick		56
Jeff Van Mulligan	2 laps down	53
Men 3/4
	pos	bib #
Nigel Kinney	1	26
Ted Martin	2	64
Evan Wishloff	3	27
Kelly Servinski	4	22
Brandon Thompson	5	23
Darrin Grund	6	21
Michael Parrish	7	30
Alexander Dove	8	24
Kevin Kondra	9	28
Jon Sonnenschein	10	29
Van Shih	11	65
Armand Hurford	DNF	25
U17
	pos	bib #
Carsten Lapointe	1	42
Peter Whalen	2	41
Josh Hardwick (U15)	3	43
Citizen Men
	pos	bib
Peter Zubick	1	88
Charles Jardine	2	85
Mike Pearson	3	87
Jason Rhodes	4	77
Michael Goodman	5	162
Dominik Szopa	6	144
Brian Reguly	7	147
Dale Thiessen	8	142
Doug Giles	9	143
Paul McCarthy	10	86
Drew hemmingson	11	149
David Gilmour	12	78
Matthew Sipple	13	157
Glenn Ross	14	169
Andrew Tuovinen	15	164
Cameron Adam	16	79
Einar Halbig	17	148
Jamie Johnson	18	152
David Usher	19	158
Steve Pukesh	20	145
Robert de Rot	lapped	156
William Richardson		165
James Clarke		89
Doug Brons		141
Paul Chaytors		167
Martin Richardson		146
Geoffrey Wherrett		153
David Hodgeson		150
Eric Case		151
Erik Wyatt		159
Jeff Tymchuck		81
Andrew Pickell	DNF	161
Jason Glucken	DNF	82
Citizen Women
	pos	bib #
Joey Luyckx	1	80
Donna Bartel	2	155
Suzanne Nagey	3	76
Sarah Nathan	4	170
Margaret Ovenell	DNF	84

New Brighton Super Prestige CX Course Map

Tomorrow! It happens!

If you're the kind of person that's interested, please find a course map, showing Registration, and all those good things, below.

Please respect the Dog Park (to the East of the pool) as we are sharing this space with many park users. If you can warm up on the outskirts of the park, or during times between races, we will very likely be welcomed back to the park. Otherwise, you'll ruin everything and no one wants that.

Parking is copious, though it would be wicked if you could carpool.

If you are interested in setting up a team tent, if you can get in early, and we'll try to help out. Driving on the grass is a no no (don't follow the park vehicles as an example).

Neutral Support will be run by our dear friends at Mighty Riders! Wheels in, wheels out! Provided you're super nice, you might even get a cup of Musette Caffe brewed 49th Parallel.

Prizes have been put together, and with amazing things from Lazer Helmets, like their R2 OD (feels so nice on your head), Topeak pumps, Lizard Skins and Norco. We are also looking forward to presenting the Chrome Winners Jersey to our First Single Speed finisher - a jersey Chrome keeps out of their product catalog and only in the hands of some damn hard racers.

And don't forget, Brodie is slathering our Facebook with their Brodie Pact Frame/Fork giveaway! You keep coming to the CX races, we'll keep your name in the drawing! Yay!

We're stoked and probably not going to sleep a wink. We'll see you in the morning!

New Brighton Super Prestige Cyclocross 2012

New Brighton Super Prestige CX 2012 is only 5 days away! We're giddy with excitement! You, however, should be giddy with registration. DO IT HERE: https://reg.ccnbikes.com/index.php/event/new-brighton-superprestige-cx

At the same time, you should be checking out the second race of this double header weekend, Vanier Park CX - http://westcoastracing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=46.

The wonderful Sven Sturm is hosting, and as the nicest guy you know (who is also faster than you), he's put out a call to Island Racers and US racers - give us a shout if you need somewhere to stay! We will find you floors, fold outs, dog beds. Drop a line to Sven or VCXC right here (or on Twitter, or on Facebook!) and stay over for both races September 29th and 30th, 2012!

So get it together, bring the family, and get ready for Cyclocross at New Brighton!

photo by Doug Brons - http://www.dougbronsphotography.com/

New Brighton SuperPrestige

New Brighton SuperPrestige

This is it, Saturday September 29th, the first race of a double header weekend! Come race picturesque New Brighton Park for the waterfront and mountain view, a definite classic on the cross circuit.

Back for a fifth time in 2012, VCXC is planning yet another sweet Euro spectator-friendly parcours. So bring the family, your friends and your enemies to spectate on the most beautiful course in East Van.

We will be providing a Team Alley area, so please consider rounding up your ladies and gents, getting the camping chairs out and heckling.

We are happy to have coffee by Musette Cafe, Food, beer prizes from Beer Thirst, a Kid's Race.

Race Registration as follows:

- $25 Pre Registration / $30 on Race Day

https://reg.ccnbikes.com/index.php/event/new-brighton-superprestige-cx

- Kid's Cross is FREE
- Racers crossing the Border get a $5 discount!
- Racers from Vancouver Island / Sunshine Coast get $5 ferry crossing discount upon presentation of ferry receipt
- $30 one day event insurance for non-license holders available at registration

Registration starts at 9:30 and closes 15 minutes before each races starts. This race will use the standings from Fort Langley CX Classic for call-up and we will expect you to suffer with your appropriate category. We'll see you on course.

*THESE DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE - PLEASE CHECK BACK WITH US FOR COURSE MAP AS AVAILABLE*

Cheers,

V.CX.C

VCXC events are open to:

UCI, USCF and CCA (incl. Cycling BC) license holders or Cycling BC Citizen license holders.
One-day license from Cycling BC is available for $30.
All kids age 15 and under.
Please note: Medical coverage is not available at the event for non-BC racers, and should be acquired in advance from a suitable provider.

Complete Timed Results!

Computers are hard.

Please find the results here:

1:00 PM Race Results - Elite Men, Masters Men 1/2, Single Speed

11:40 AM Race Results - Master Men 3/4, Open Women

10:30 AM Race Results - 3/4 Men, Citizen Racers

I would also encourage everyone to check out the photo links on the previous post - some great shots of riders doing suffer properly. Also, the video from Warwick, aka Bacon Handup:

Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic 2012 from Formula Photographic Inc. on Vimeo.

And a slightly more comedic POV by Andrew Summers:

Don't forget! More racing in September. Check the calendar, and the Facebook Page, get your skinsuit clean, we'll see you out there.

Race Report - Fort Langley CX Classic

Ladies and Gents. Thank you.

Fort Langley CX Classic was a huge success. A hot, dusty, rock-laden success; and it's thanks to you. I even got to get my ass kicked by some of the best racers in BC.

Photo by the Amazing Doug Brons (who has more photos here) 

We had our massive support team from Mighty Riders  out, registering, taping, yelling, bleeding, just for you folks. It's a major boon to an event when the volunteers are way smarter than the organizers. It helps to ply them with Musette coffee...

It's also important to note that this event was well supported by our series partners, Norco Bicycles; Steve showed up with a huge booth, Norco tester bikes (that I totally should have used as a course setup bike) and some incredible swag for winners, including Lazer Helmets and Topeak pumps.

Our dear friend Andrew from Brodie bikes cracked open the swag bag for us, as well as providing some killer finish line flags, so we could figure out where the hell we were supposed to sprint to on that hot dusty gravel. As a reminder, Brodie has ponied up a PACT frame and fork for our VCXC series. Deets on the Facebook Page. He also has no problem with a brandy-handup.

Photo from the series by Steve at Norco

Finally, for a last bit of callout, we were so deeply excited to get Beer Thirst on board for our races this year. they provided us enough beer to go two deep for each category, with beers from Green Flash, Elysian Brewing, Bear Republic and Alameda - check out where you can drink these now that we've given them all away.

For those of you jonesing for results, here are top 5 for each category. I will upload a condensed spreadsheet for full results as I can. These results are being forwarded to Jeff of Vancouver SuperPrestige to be counted towards the series points.

In order of race time:

Citizen:*(revised)

1. Brad Issel
2. Benjamin Schmidt
3. Brian Reguly
4. Colin Bell
5. Dale Rister

Men 3/4:

1. Troy Neale
2. Ted Martin
3. Ryan Cousineau
4. Warwick Peterson
5. John Sonnenchein

Open Women:

1. Mical Dyck - check out her awesome writeup of the race here.
2. Jean Ann Berkenpass
3. Kelly Jones
4. Steph Roorda
5. Beth Hartsoch

Master 3/4

1. Shawn Peterson
2. Regan Pringle
3. Dan Gronross
4. Robert Chew
5. Ray LaChance

Master 1/2

1. Bob Wellbourn
2. Kim Steed
3. Matt Drown
4. Graeme Martindale
5. Brad Collins

Single Speed (our first ever, thanks for the guys who came out and crushed!)

1. Ashley Stotts
2. Jay Showtime Loder
3. Robert Airey
4. Aaron Scally
5. Scott Sportsman

Men's Elite

1. Kevin Noiles
2. Kevin Calhoun
3. Sven Sturm
4. Mike Berkenpass
5. Matt Hornland

There are even more pictures from John Denniston here: http://www.johndenniston.ca/blogwp3/?p=2968

Thanks again to everyone that came out, ate some BBQ and Chili, and check back with Vancouver SuperPrestige to see where you stand throughout the season. The next BC race is Abottsford CX - September 15th - http://cyclocross.cyclingbc.net/ai1ec_event/abby-cx-bc-cup/?instance_id=15

Also be sure to check back for updated information on our next V.CX.X race New Brighton SuperPrestige on September 29th! It's a double header weekend with WCR/RedTruck Vanier CX on Sunday.

Keep the rubber side down.

Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic

It's what you want, now it's here.

The inaugural race of the 2012 season is upon us. Please join us at Aldor Acres Farm in Fort Langley for the Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic, presented by Mighty Riders and our generous sponsors.

You can find the course, roughly outlined (we reserve the right to make it harder on you), here: http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/129020363/

OR look at it in this adorable little photo. T represents the Team Alley area, flag the start/finish timing area. Wheel pit is across from the start. The rest, I hope they come through loud and clear.

There will be coffee, BBQ food (including veggie options, much to the farmer's chagrin), beer prizes, kids races and of course, wonderful farm animals! Please remember to leave your dogs at home, we don't want them scaring the goats.

Registration starts at 9:30 and closes 15 minutes before each races starts. This race will use the Cycling BC points callup from last year's BC Cup, and we will expect you to suffer with your appropriate category. Put your numbers on the right side, and we'll see you on course.

Cheers,

V.CX.C

categories and times

Ermahgerd, it's almost CX season. I know, I know, you're like "but meat, the summer just got here, I can't be thinking about Flemish Tan Lines". And believe me, I'm revelling in the summer, taking my sweet time away to ride bikes and drink beers (and do secret altitude training). However, it's been put off long enough and it's Business Time, which means we need to hike up our socks and give the people races.

This year brings a new category to V.CX.C events; Single Speed. This is an equipment-based category so bring your fixed gear with knubbies, your Nebraska Corn Cob or just your regular CX bike with the gearing locked out  . They will be starting at 1PM, after the Elites go out, as we all know single speed racers are lazy bums who are busy sleeping off their hangovers. 

Details for each of the events, such as course layout, series points and day-of sponsors will be up at vancrosscoalition.blogspot.ca/ with ample time to decide what kind of tires to mount and convince your significant other to drive you out to the race.

Tell your kids, tell your friends. If you know people new to CX, you should point them towards our dear friend Kevin Noiles, who is running a Cross Clinic: Intro to Cyclocross Racing Clinic . You don't want to head into your first cross race and pull a Joey. If you're in need of a CX bike for it, try touching base with Jay "Showtime" about either his Argon Arsenic 18 or his Jake the Snake Single Speed build ... And yes, he paid me to drop these in here. But not very much.

Stay tuned!

one more time

Welcome to Vancouver Cyclocross Coalition. We are here to make your life muddy. 

Alright; our last little post was a tester, a tease, and now we're getting things done. This year has started out with a slow release of scheduling from the Vancouver cyclocross scene, so here's as much as we can give you right now. We have 2 dates confirmed, more coming. Start marking your schedules. There will be more information as soon as we can provide.

This'll have to do right now

We will be rolling out more information as we can; this also includes a TWITTER (omg) account @v_cx_c which will post smaller updates including day-of race results and other useless crap you probably don't want to hear about.

We encourage you to tell your friends, tell your family, we want Vancouver to remember, CX isn't just a race, it's a lifestyle choice. Come, hang out, bring some camping chairs and replace your pit-bike with a six-pack. You look better when you're relaxed*.

*stolen from Portland geniuses, Team SuperRelax.