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Moutain Bikers Rack up the Finishes, but not the Mud this year
The Warren Wilson Mountain Biking team took fifteen riders to the season’s first race this past weekend at Eastern Tennessee State University. Normally this race is a slippery-rooted-pinch-flat-causing-rocky-mudfest, but due to the month long drought, the trails were smooth and fast and you could actually tell where the trail ended and the woods began (as opposed to the pig-pen effect which had been status quo).
Saturday consisted of a two-mile time trail, the downhill race, dual slalom and short track. Senior Ashlee Robison, who spent last season finding herself a new love—fishing boats in Alaska—returned talented as ever, with a win in both the downhill and dual slalom events – and her time for the downhill course made some of the male competitors a little self-conscious—so take that gender stereotypes!
The two mile time trail results are still pending, but several Wilson riders rode their first collegiate race ever in this event—Matt Williams, Becca Parish, Vanessa Emery, Lauren Parker, Alexis Decosimo and Maxx Cohen.
Their second collegiate race ever occurred a few hours later with the short track event. Here, the riders altruistically torture themselves while going around and around a ½ mile grassy track so that the spectators may take joy in the looks of pain and sound of ceaseless wheezing coming from the riders.
The official results of the short track event are still pending and the individual riders were too delirious to remember their finishing positions anyway.
The Warren Wilson riding Hooters finished the day with a proper recovery dinner at America’s favorite House of Gluttony (Ryan’s Steak House and Buffet), where they ate enough to refuel and pre-fuel for Sunday’s cross country race. The team had an overall very strong performance, even visibly impressing their ever-stoic coach, Art Shuster.
After four laps of a fast, yet technical five mile course, Pat Hurley, whose sculpture-esque legs are all the rage with his fellow racers (check ‘em out when you get a chance), led the Men’s “A” team with an 11th place finish in a very competitive field.
Matt Williams, who transferred from Lewis and Clark college in favor of a school with a lesser-known hero (that would be Willy Warren), finished 13th. They were followed by Ran Morra in 18th and Ben “Big Country” West in 20th.
The Women’s “A” race saw two Wilson riders in the top-ten, with Kylie Krauss in 2nd and Hannah Waldman in 9th.
The official finishing positions of Alexis D. (Women’s “A”), Maxx C. and Scott Anderson (both Men’s “B”) are still pending
In the Women’s B race, the new riders showed considerable talent and enthusiasm, all with strong finishes. Becca led the group in 3rd, followed by Vanessa Emery in 5th and Lauren Parker in 6th.
(write up by co-captain Kylie Krauss)