Woodruff, Rinehart win cross country

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Sunday morning's races came quickly after riders fueled up with a big breakfast of seven-grain hot cereal, Norwegian pancakes with lingonberries and farm sausage.

The elite men rolled off first with Doug Swanson taking the early lead before a group of three consisting of Moore, TJ Woodruff and Sam Oftedahl. Behind them, Eric Oftedahl, Jack Hinkens and Cam Patrick chased.

Heading towards the lakeside on the final lap, Moore pinned the drops in first with Woodruff and Oftedahl just off by seconds. Woodruff hung tight, and when the three riders came out the tight and twisty and began the climb up Suicide Hill, Woodruff made "the attack that stuck" and went on for the win that also secured the overall classification.

Moore hung on for second, Sam Oftedahl was third, junior rider Hinkens was fourth and Kirkpatrick finished fifth.

In the elite women's race, Jenna Rinehart and Kyia Anderson pulled away from the field until Suicide Hill where Rinehart made her move.

"I had a great start and jumped on Jenna's wheel. I let Jenna take the lead and when I looked back the rest of the elite field was right there," said Anderson. "We dove into the first section of singletrack and Jen Fisher was excusing her brake noise. We gapped the field out of the first section of singletrack, and I stuck on Jenna's wheel on the ski trails and up Suicide Hill."

Eventually Rinehart got away for the win. "Once in the singletrack and onto the steep climbs, she just danced away," said Anderson.

Fisher, Meghan Korol and Corey Coogan rounded out the top five respectively with Coogan looking rather "clean" compared to the other riders, male and female, who looked "dirty". Rinehart took the overall as well with the sweep of all three events.

Both Rinehart and Woodruff were repeating a previous overall win.

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