April 17, 2010 Mount Laguna Bicycle Classic ResultsHere are some selected shots from the ride. Click any thumbnail. We have over 450 images online from this event! Slideshow links below.
We are pleased to announce the results for the inaugural Mount Laguna Bicycle Classic, the newest AdventureCORPS cycling event, featuring 101 miles with over 10,000 feet of climbing and three different ascents of San Diego County's Mount Laguna! Participants climbed San Diego's highest point via Sunrise Hwy from the north, via the fabled and car-free Kitchen Creek from the south-east, and via the little-known and truly epic Pine Creek drainage from the west. There are just three stop signs and NO traffic lights on this incredible route which starts and finishes in Pine Valley, CA! In the official results below, elapsed time is listed for 101-mile finishers only. Congrats to the overall men's champion, Drew Peterson, and overall female champion, Janet Christiansen, as well as the Club Challenge Champions from World Cycles, Alex Estrada and Deya Guerrero on tandem, along with Gordon Smith! We also salute 11-year-old Moriah May Swan and her 13-year-old sister Hannah Swan, our youngest 101-mile finishers. As local riders from Alpine, CA who know these roads very well, they rode with their father, Richard Swan, age 41, and completed the 101-mile route in 9:06. Besides being so young, they ride absolutely beautifully with real passion and excitement for the sport, as well as for the challenges which these roads offer. On a different end of the age spectrum, two riders, both aged 69, also completed the full 101-mile distance: Andrew Gustafson of Ojai clocked an 8:34 finish and Jon Meyer Robins of La Jolla clocked a 9:48 finish. We also thank Bill Walton for serving as the Chairman of Good Times, Social Affairs, Customer Relations and All Things Fun. Bill was on hand for all the wave starts in the morning, and then he rode the Lake Cuyamaca and Kitchen Creek loops. After his ride, he spent the afternoon at the finish line, posing for photographs and congratulating riders. What a great friend we have in Bill Walton! A total of 131 riders (17 females, 114 males) completed all three loops for 101 miles, 54 riders (12 females, 42 males) completed two loops for 77 miles, 3 (all female) riders completed the first loop, and 12 riders completed an unknown number of miles and loops. (If you are listed as unknown, but did complete the three-loop route, please contact us with the following: your bib number, wave start time, finish time, and the name of anyone with whom you finished, if any. If you have your bib number and can scan it, please send that along, too.) Thanks to all the riders and volunteers for making the inaugural Mount Laguna Bicycle Classic a huge success! We look forward to sharing this experience with you again in 2011! Between now and next April, we plan to offer some excellent training and adventurous riding opportunities in the Mount Laguna area. We will post those to our Blog, as well as our Facebook page and Twitter feed. We also hope you will join us in October this year for Furnace Creek 508, and/or the Death Valley Century and Double Century. Please Note: The 2011 Mount Laguna Bicycle Classic will be held April 16, 2011. Mark Your Calendar!Links to over 450 Images from the Ride, plus Blog Links and Media Coverage
Let's Give a Big Round of Applause to all the Fantastic Volunteers! (Listed by Saturday assignment):Roving SAG: Les Campbell from Cyco-Path Bicycle Shop in Temecula Marking the Turn onto Hwy 79: Ingo Neumann, Sabine Neumann, and Mike Hooper CP1 / Lake Cuyamaca Store: Mike Angelfish Angelos, Steve Protoceratops and Elliott Barnes, John Byrne, and Kathy Stadler CP2/4/6 / Red Tail Roost atop Mount Laguna: Tim Kjenstand, Kevin Goins, Yoana Georgieva, Steven Ward, Ingo Neumann, Sabine Neumann, and Mike Hooper CP3 / Kitchen Creek:, Joe Poma, Ryan Crane, and Tina Angeles Pine Creek Water Stop (Loop 3): Mike Angelfish Angelos and John Byrne Finish Line / Timing / Food: Steve and Elliott Barnes, Francis Picachu Ignacio, Scott Palka, Kathy Stadler, Steven Ward, Tina Angeles, Kassidi & Nathan Jeppesen, Elizabeth Jefferson, and, I'm sure, several others! Special Note: Francis Picachu Ignacio, a four-time Furnace Creek 508 solo finisher, was up all of Friday night, cooking the super popular adobo Filipino food (chicken, rice, veggies, plus custard, and more!) for all the riders, then he spent all of Saturday working the finish line and keeping his home-cooked food warm and ready to serve. And now you know why his LA-based cycling club (which is open to riders from anywhere) is called Adobo Velo! (Four Adobo Velo riders participted. They are a regular fixture at AdventureCORPS events: riding, volunteering, or both.) We also want to thank the folks at Pine Valley Store (the "gas station / mini mart" immediately next to the park entrance) for their all-afternoon-long friendly, great service and pizza baking! Additionally, Linda and the San Diego County Park staff were very supportive and we thank them for allowing us to hose the startfinish for this event at Pine Valley County Park. Finally, we thank the United States Forest Service and the County of San Diego for issuing the permits and allowing us to host this event on the roads which they oversee. This is a spectacular route and we thank them for taking good care of this superb cycling region! Lost & Found: If you left clothing at the event, please email us with a description and your mailing address, or arrange to meet us tomorrow in the UTC area of La Jolla at Infusions of Tea. Awesome, Unsolicited, Totally Appreciated Feedback!I really enjoyed the ride. Well done. There's never a bad reason to head out to Laguna. And Pine Creek is ridiculous. Just from looking at the elevation data from online gps mapping tools, I thought I had a chance at riding the climb fixed. I had no idea what was in store for me! I really have to return with gears! - Adam Rock Rabbit Bickett I just wanted to thank you and your staff for a great ride on Saturday. It was a truly beautiful day, and an epic ride. And a couple of times during the day I ran into other riders along the route that brought up (without me asking) how well run the ride was, how nice the staff was, how good the food selection was, etc. Not a discouraging word. - Regards, Jack Blackbird Bochsler Chris, you’ve outdone yourself. Since I did the first Death Valley Double it was always my favorite ride. I think it has now been replaced by Mount Laguna. The scenery, the support and the course were awesome. That dreaded third loop which needs a nickname will surely become a classic for anyone who thinks digging deep into their physical and mental wells is “fun”. In the nearly 20 years I’ve been doing endurance cycling events that loop is arguably the hardest stretch I’ve done. I can see many of us coming back not simply to complete it but to reduce the number of times we have to come off the bike due to those grades. Finally, I don’t know how popular it was with others but in the future if you continue to have chicken and rice at the end I will make that my first stop at the end. Great job as always. My brother and my friends are already talking about next year. - Ron Sparrow Shepston Wow - THAT was EPIC! From the pre-event communication, to the on-course support and to the course itself and lastly but not leastly to the post ride food and atmosphere - this event was fantastic. It will be a quick sell out for years to come. That last loop was one for the record books in its difficulty. I highly recommend every rider that is looking for a real challenge they give this a go! - Cliff Clermont Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to shake your hand and say thanks for an EPIC event on saturday. This was truly a GREAT course, with great support! The third loop was definitely no joke, and was a killer way to end the course. Ball buster for sure! Thanks again for a great race. - Ryan Denner I just wanted to thank you again for an epic and amazing day on Laguna. I think it might be the best event i have ever participated in. The aid stations were excellent, timing well done, atmosphere positive (competitive but friendly) and course challenging; It was an inspirational day! I am so thankful you let me do it and already have fond memories of it. Also thanks for the nice jersey. I hope to get out there again and ride with you guys. - Take care, Drew Peterson Thanks for creating such an epic event. Until Saturday, San Diego County really had no challenging cycling events until this one. Thanks for everything. - Take care out there, Jay Nielsen Thanks for the great event -- the course was fantastic (if a little cruel going up Pine Valley)... - Kind regards, Andrew LeBeau Just wanted to say that I had a great time yesterday. It was my first time down in that area and I can't wait to get back down there and explore some more. The ride was both challenging and rewarding at the same time. I only completed 2 loops, but I rode them at a faster pace than I did the 80 miles in Death Valley, so it was great day for me. Thanks to you and your volunteers for putting this on. Thanks again, - Errin Vasquez Thanks for putting together a fantastic event. Funny how it’s tough for many to complete, hard to imagine doing it again as you push to finish, yet it seems like fun in the days following the event. Should have been named the Mount Laguna Bicycle Challenge, because that was a tough ride. Very well supported ride with a fun group on a challenging course and Bill was great fun to have in customer service too. - Gregg Sprosty Thanks for the great event. This was only my second organized event, and I found completing 2 loops very difficult but rewarding. - James Eitelberg Hi, I had a great time at the Mount Laguna Bicycle Classic! - Thanks, Scott Boniface I wanted to let you know that I had a great time volunteering. Thanks for letting me do that. I really hope that I will be able to ride Mt. Laguna next year. I also wanted to let you know that I heard tons of positive, glowing feedback from the riders. Almost everyone with whom I interacted had fabulous things to say about the ride, the organization, and the overall experience. - Thanks again, Kathy Stadler Mount Laguna was probably the best route I have ridden. The after-ride dinner was great. I know a lot of thought and effort went into planning this event. - Thank you, Gary Brownlee Thanks for a beautifully organized and beautifully scenic ride. The three progressively more difficult climbs with a bailout option on the first two, plus safe and easy descents provided something for everyone, although the third climb was suitable only for the truly masochistic. Your highly supportive volunteers were great too. - Andrew Gustafson Thanks for the update and thanks again for a great event. BTW, if you had seen me doing my Quasimodo walk up part of that last climb, you would have had no trouble believing my age. I'm debating whether I should come back next year for a try at being your first 70-year-old finisher or just stick to the relatively easy stuff like Everest Challenge. - Andrew Gustafson (age 69) Thanks for allowing me ride and participate in the pre-ride for the Mt. Laguna Classic last November. Like the pre-ride, I chose to make the actual event a double century ride - commuting to and from Pine Valley from Bonita, CA. Although I was slow and methodical on the first climb, I really got moving up Kitchen Creek. The first half of Pine Creek Road was powerful as I continued to work my way back up to what could have been a 7hr. 30 minute ride. Unfortunately, I bonked at the 18-22 percent grades and suffered some bad cramps and nausea. Thanks to your wonderful support, I was able to take my near hour off the bike, suck down some oranges and then very slowly lumber up the rest of the ascent. Although I was offered a ride to the summit, I adamently refused. I am 0 for 2 in 508s, and wanted very badly to get through my first AdventureCorps event. I was able to finish under 9 hours, barely ahead of the Swan girls!!! They are awesome!! After Picachu's Chicken Adobo, I actually made a rapid descent, breaking 3 hours for my final 50 miles back to Bonita. (Still not up to Drew Peterson's climbing pace....but I was satisfied) Hope to be back at the 508 within the next few years. - Greg "Great Dane" Sherman You guys are awesome. You really ran a smooth event. A challenging route, great support, and a beautiful day. I'm already recruiting some friends to ride it next year. - Adam Pacal I just wanted to thank you all for organizing and executing a truly epic and incredible ride! Once again, many thanks...and looking forward to next year's ride already! - Peter Sroka Great ride. Overheard another rider at the local 24Hr Fitness who was bragging about it to his work out pals (his version was very colorful) down here in Rancho Bernardo. Sure to be one of the “monuments” on the SoCal calendar! - Janet Osprey Christiansen Thanks for putting on a well supported event today! - Thank you, Scott Gilbert Thank you for such an excellent event. You really do have this down to a science and you have an excellent group of people working with you. Thank you for blessing the girls with the jerseys and attention. They had a great time, and yes, they did Pine Creek without walking :^) Listed below is my Garmin Edge 705 data just for another reference on elevation. - Sleeping good tonight, Richard Swan (father of Moriah and Hannah) What a stellar venue for a ride. Your support crews were awesome and always offering to help. Loop 3 was incredible. (So, were loops 1 & 2.) My brother Ron and I are already talking about training for next year’s ride. (Including losing those extra pounds that aren’t fun to climb with…..) When we finished, I was talking to Elizabeth, when my wife returned my call to ask me how it went. I said, “It was awful!”. Or, something to that effect. Elizabeth was taken back and asked if we’re coming back. I tried to explain that awful means awesome. You know what I mean. The more painful it is, the more we love it, right? - Thanks again, Mike Shepston Great event! I had a blast, and hope to do more AdventureCORPS events. - Jerald Cook Congrats again to you both on a wonderful inaugural event. This will be a "must" for us in Southern California in future years and will likely draw folks from far and wide. - All the best, John A.T. Young Fantastic ride on Saturday! You've created a must-do, classic San Diego event. Thank you! It was great meeting you and doing my *first* AdventureCorps event. - Regards, Amy Snyder Thanx, to Chris & all the volunteers. Great Ride! Stops were situated perfectly & people were positive. I had the 'honor' & distinction for earning the Red Lantern. When I passed by the park at 2:25pm I knew I was making a large comittment for the RL trophy, but it felt great anyway finishing a shade before 6 or whenever. - Tor Ueland PS Special thanx to Les of Cycopath Cyclery of Temecula for your support at the end... Just got home and wanted to say thanks for letting me help out last week. I really enjoyed it. Kevin did too. We rode the Kitchen loop the next day and what a beautiful ride. Thanks again, see you at BW. - Tim Kjenstad, Mount Laguna volunteer
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