Washington Co., Wi – The Trail Sharks Mountain Bike Team had another great NICA weekend race/festival weekend as they participated in the third race of the season at Englewood Grass Farm in Fall River.
With it being a full league event there were just over 1100 registered athletes participating in the race on Sunday, September 28. There were 27 athletes representing our team with one athlete taking the podium.
This race venue is a private course built in a working farm, only opened for special events like WORS (Wisconsin Off Road Series), Pro XCT & XCO races and this NICA race. Features include flyovers, punchy climbs and technical rock gardens, with berms and tabletops along with plenty of passing opportunities throughout the course.
The dew-covered grass caused havoc for the morning racers – athletes sliding out in the grassy corners with several causing pileups.
The sun eventually helped dry out the slippery corners, but then the temperatures rose close to 80s for the afternoon racers. Some multi-lap racers were taking water bottles just to dump over the top of them to cool off.
Lauren Ryan is about to make her descent on the first of several wooden flyover features on the course.
Their next festival weekend will be October 4-5 with the race on Sunday at Camp Tesomas in Rhinelander.
Medalists…
Gracelyn Beimborn (Kewaskum) – 3rd
Athletes…
(1 lap)
Addison Schumacher (West Bend – St. Frances Cabrini) – 13th
Lukas Heller (Germantown) – 28th
Jeffery Hilgendorf (Germantown) – 87th
Gracelyn Beimborn (Kewaskum) – 3rd
Iain Crew (Homeschool) – 30th
Brayden Thiermann (Mequon – Trinity Lutheran Freistadt) – 31st
William Heller (center) leads the pack of 2-lap riders up a long double track hill before getting back onto more technical singletrack.
(2 lap)
Sloan Godbout (West Bend West) – 21st
Liesl Ryan (Homeschool) – 32th
William Heller (Germantown) – 45th
Clayton Katsma (West Bend West) – 51st
Tyler VanAdestine (West Bend East) – 57th
Wyatt Edlbeck (West Bend East) – 64th
Kaylie Yttri (West Bend West) – 35th
John Rank (Kewaskum) – 26th
Aiden DePolo (Homeschool) – 39th
Benjamin Tremaine (West Bend East) – 44th
Matt Moser (West Bend East) – 52nd
Xander Atkins (West Bend West) – 71st
Chet Davis (Germantown) – 77th
(3 lap)
Shealyn Jablonski (West Bend East) – 29th
Lauren Ryan (Homeschool) – 36th
Jaiden Schumacher (West Bend West) – 6th
Alexander Seboe (Germantown) – 8th
Ephraim Essinger (Kewaskum) – 36th
Graham Jablonski (West Bend East) – 58th
Christopher Tremaine (West Bend East) – 61st
(4 lap)
Aiden Schubert (West Bend East) – 39th
