Roy and Van Gilder finish second and third in mud-fest
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Amanda Carey (Kenda) challenges Laura Van Gilder (C3 – Athletes Serving Athletes) for third place.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
Deidre Winfield (C3 – Athletes Serving Athletes) was clean and smiling before the start.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
Georgia Gould (Luna Pro Team) leads the elite women’s field down the opening path.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
After just a half lap, Georgia Gould’s (Luna Pro Team) dominance was clear.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
The conditions forced Maureen Bruno Roy (MM Racing) to go right, while the course goes left.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
An accumulation of small falls would eventually sap the strength out of many riders.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
Lenore Pipes finds herself pointing in the wrong direction.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
One of the few riders who appears to be enjoying the tough conditions.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
The conditions were especially hard on Laura Van Gilder (C3 – Athletes Serving Athletes). Despite finishing third, she landed in the medical tent for stitches.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
Deidre Winfield (C3 – Athletes Serving Athletes) makes her way up a hill on her way to fifth place.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
The conditions separated the riders so much that Rebecca Wellons (Team Plan C) shouted back to her crew: “Am I last”? No, she was holding a solid seventh place.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
Georgia Gould (Luna Pro Team) crosses the line first, then turns and removes her glasses to make sure.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
The muddy conditions added considerable weight to the bikes.(Image credit: Todd Leister)
A smiling Georgia Gould takes the win and looking forward to getting rid of all that mud.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Luna's Georgia Gould concentrating on getting out of the cornfield mud maze.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Georgia Gould was undeterred by straw and mud barrowing uphill.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Kenda/Trainwith eric.com‘s Amanda Carey pushes towards third place.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Laura Van Guilder (C3 Athletes Serving Athletes) shows her strong determination, finishing in second place despite a serious chain ring injury.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Team Plan C’s Rebecca Wellons was the early lead-out into the first mud section.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
MM Racing p/b Seven Cycles rider Maureen Bruno Roy pushes through the second walk-up as spectators watch transfixed.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Heidi Von Teitenberg (C3 Athletes Serving Athletes) makes it look effortless getting that bike up the hill.(Image credit: Marco Quezada)
Georgia Gould dominated the Women's UCI C2 race from the start and rode away from the field for her first win of the season. However, it was not a care-free ride as the former MAC Champion did not have a pit bike, a source of concern considering the parade of broken derailleurs in the earlier amateur classes.
"Feel my bike!" said Gould to a friend shortly after crossing the finish line. With the accumulation of mud, most estimated that it weighed in the vicinity of 30 pounds.
"The run-ups were more like hike-briskly-up-the-hills, and sometimes it wasn't even briskly," said Gould of the slippery course conditions.
Following a long mountain bike season, Interbike, CrossVegas and the Planet Bike Cup, Gould was giving her body a well-deserved rest. "But I got tired of sitting in Colorado while my husband (Dusty, team mechanic for Kona's Trebon and Wicks) had fun with cyclo-cross out East," said Gould. "So I booked a ticked Tuesday for a flight Thursday, but I could only bring one bike."
Behind Gould, noted mudder Mo Bruno-Roy (M&M Racing/Seven Cycles) ran a smooth race to finish second. Amanda Carey (Kenda) continued her year of strong performances with a race-long battle with current MAC champion Laura Van Gilder. Early in the race, Carey held the advantage over C3 Athletes Serving Athletes teammates Van Gilder and Dee Dee Winfield. Winfield never looked settled on the day and dropped back, while Van Gilder clawed her way up to Carey.
The tables were turned during the second half of the race as Van Gilder held the position and Carey dragged her way up on the last lap to make contact and then attack prior to the final corners. Unfortunately for Carey, the long, paved uphill finish at Granogue perfectly suited Van Gilder, one of the greatest women's road sprinters of all time. Van Gilder took the sprint for third, but to Carey's credit, she made Van Gilder work hard for it, as Van Gilder was shattered following her anaerobic effort to finish on the podium.
The MAC Powered by SRAM Series continues Sunday with the Wissahickon Cyclo-cross at the Ludwig's Corner Horse Show and Country Fair grounds in Glenmore, Pennsylvania.
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Full results
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Georgia Gould (USA) Luna Pro Team
0:41:20
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Maureen Bruno Roy (USA) MM Racing p/b Seven Cycles
0:01:41
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Laura Van Gilder (USA) C3 Athletes Serving Athletes
