Arctic Cross 4 and 5 - 24th and 25th September 2016 - lots of wet grass

Saturday was round 4 of the Arctic Cross series.  The course revisited an older location however it was a completely new course.  Lots of grass, some fun single track a little mud, pavement and a few bunny hop opportunities to keep everyone on their toes.

Bunny hop technique - Tom - Race #4
Photo Credit -Kelsey Tranel

Sunday was round 5 of the series and visited a team favourite at Harvard Park in Government hill. The course as always had a mixture of grass, pavement and dirt, this year the runup was back.

"Run up" technique Clint - Race #5
Photo Credit - Rob Christenson

The team had 16 members racing/organising on Saturday and 11 members out on Sunday.

Once again a huge thanks out to the Arctic Cross team for putting together two fantastic races. See you all next week for round 6 at Kulis Air Park.

Race #4

Full results can be found here

Beginner Men

Ethan - 5th Place

Travis - 11th Place

Mark - 13th Place

Brant - 23rd Place

Mike - 32nd Place 

Open Women

Laura - 2nd Place

Danielle - 6th Place

Open Men

Nico - 6th Place

Clint - 8th Place

Nick - 10th Place

Ryan - 11th Place

Brad - 16th Place

Shannon - 19th Place

Oscar - 20th Place

Tom - 26th Place

Race #5

Full results can be found here

Beginner Men

Ethan - 11th Place

Mark - 23rd Place

Brant - 29th Place

Mike - 44th Place

Open Women

Laura - 3rd Place

Open Men

Nico - 4th Place

Clint - 7th Place

Ryan - 8th Place

Nick - 10th Place

Shannon -16th Place

Oscar - 17th Place

Tom - 18th Place

Arctic Cross 2 and 3 - 17th/18th September 2016 - Muddy and hilly Oktoberfest edition

This week the Arctic Cross show headed down to Girdwood for a double header. Saturday featured some mud, hills and a little bit of pavement.  Sunday was a similar story with more mud and hills.

Revolution had 16 team members out racing for round #2 and 8 for round #3 Once again we were lucky to have a number of team mates/family members out supporting.
Finally thanks to Bruce and the rest of the Arctic Cross team for putting together a fun course.

Race #2 

Full results can be found by clicking the following link, with splits on the following link.

Results

Beginner Men

Travis - 6th Place
Ethan - 9th Place
Mark - 19th Place
Brant - 24th Place
Mike - 34th Place

Beginner Women 

Kristie - 15th Place

Open Women

Laura - 3rd Place
Danielle - 5th Place

Open Men

Nico - 6th Place
Clint - 9th Place
Nick - 10th Place
Ryan - 15th Place
Brad - 16th Place
Shannon - 22nd Place
Tom - 25th Place
Oscar - 27th Place

Race #3 

Full results can be found by clicking the following link, with splits on the following link.

Results

Beginner Men

Travis - 7th Place
Mark - 14th Place

Open Women

Laura - 3rd Place

Open Men

Brad - 13th Place

Clint - 15th Place

Oscar - 17th Place

Shannon - 19th Place

Tom - 20th Place

Arctic Cross #1 - 10th September 2016 - Kincaid stadium

With a blue sky day we couldn't have asked for nicer conditions for the 2016 season opener for Arctic Cross. Yes we all love a bit of mud and rain but it was nice not to have to replace a drive train and brakes following one race. The course was based out of the stadium at Kincaid and had some fast sections, steep hills, long gradual hills and a couple of barriers including a tricky barrier section and remount on a side slope.
Revolution had 10 team members out racing and number of team mates/family members out supporting.

Full results can be found by clicking the following link

Results
Beginner Men

Travis - 8th Place

Mark - 16th Place

Mike - 35th Place 

Open Women

Laura - 2nd Place

Danielle - 5th Place

Open Men

Nico - 5th Place

Nick - 11th Place

Brad - 14th Place

Oscar - 17th Place

Tom - 20th Place

Roll on next weekend for the double header down in Girdwood where Arctic Cross is teaming up with Oktoberfest, beer and cross. 

Arctic MTB #6 - 16th August 2016 - The series final

Tuesday the 16th August 2016  marked the final round of the Arctic MTB Kincaid Race Series for 2016.  The six race series always passes so quickly but this year, once again the series has been a blast to compete in with a great variety of courses and weather.  

From the team point of view we've had great participation in the events both racing and assisting with course setup and teardown.

Thanks again to Arctic MTB for putting together a great series, see you all at the Trifecta then following on from that #Crossiscoming with Arctic cross

Team photo from earlier in the season

How did we do in round 6?

Expert Men

Clint - 11th Place

Shannon - 12th Place

Expert Women

Laura - 3rd Place

Sport Men

Oscar- DNF - missed turn on course

Ethan - ????

Sport Women 

Danielle - 1st Place

Masters Men 

Bruce - 5th Place

Singlespeed Men 

Nico - 1st Place
Ryan- 3rd Place
Tom - 7th Place

Fatbike Men

Andrew - 4th Place

Race results

Series roundup

Expert Men

Clint - 11th Place

Nick - 18th Place

Brad- 24th Place

Shannon - 25th Place

Expert Women

Laura - 3rd Place

Sport Men

Travis - 32nd Place

Oscar - 39th Place

Ethan - 44th Place

Brant - 69th Place

Sport Women 

Danielle - 1st Place

Beginner Women 

Kristie - 13th Place

Masters Men 

Bruce - 4th Place

Singlespeed Men 

Nico - 2nd Place
Tom - 5th Place
Ryan - 7th Place

Fatbike Men

Andrew - 2nd Place

Full results 

Alaska Endurance Association Soggy Bottom - 6th August 2016

After the epic rain preceding the Soggy Bottom all the racers were preparing for potentially horrendous conditions on the course. Fortunately the course was mostly just moist with the occasional section of wet. Even a lot of the wet cleared up for many riders return trip back towards Devils pass.

Revolution racing had two riders completing solo for the 100mile event, 2 riders on teams (both took leg 2) and two riders running the SBBS (Soggy Bottom Bacon Station)

Results

7th Place - Samuri Cereal Killers - 9:53:56 (Oscar's Team)
12th Place - Clint - 10:44:26
17th Place - Nick - 11:28:36
23th Place - EMT - 12:14:00 (Ethan's team... I think)

SBBS - Laura and Ryan
Here are a couple of snap shots from out on the course.

Bacon Hand off from Ryan - Photo credit Will Ross

Oscar at SBBS - Photo Credit Ryan Greeff

Clint descending Devils Pass - Photo credit Will Ross

Nick taking a shot at the SBBS thanks Laura
 - Photo credit Ryan Greeff

Nick descending Devils Pass - Photo credit Will Ross

Ethan at SBBS - Photo credit Ryan Greeff

Arctic MTB #5 -4th August 2016 - The water edition

Wow what a wet one!  Congratulations to the 6 team members who were out racing. The course was a little climbing, a little descending with a large side of  mud, water and wet roots.

How did we do?

Expert Women

Laura - 2nd Place

Sport Women 

Danielle - 2nd Place

Masters Men 

Bruce - 3rd Place

Singlespeed Men 

Nico - 2nd Place
Tom - 4th Place

Fatbike Men

Andrew - 4th Place


Full results

How wet was it?  Take a look at these photos and judge for yourself.

Bruce on Black Bear

Nico on the ridge trail

Danielle on the ridge trail

Andrew on the ridge trail

Laura on the ridge trail

Tom on the ridge trail

Arctic MTB XC#4 - 21st July 2016 - The gorge trail edition

Nine team members were out racing in the only slightly smokey air this week.
The course was a tough one with around 800ft of climbing per 6mile lap.  Although most of the climbing wasn't steep it did wear out the legs.  2/3 of the way around the course we took a primitive single track trail that linked up with the gorge trail.  This added a little technical riding into the course and was a great place to either maintain some good pace or lose time against your rivals, if you hadn't already lost time in the climbs ;-)
Thanks again to Arctic MTB for another fantastic course.

How did we all do?

Expert men

Nick - 10th

Clint - 12th

Brad - 15th

Expert women

Danielle - 4th

Sport men

Travis - 11th

Master men

Bruce - 5th

Single speed men

Nico - 1st

Tom - 6th

Fatbike men

Andrew - 1st

XC#4 Race results full
Season points including XC#4