Canada Cup, Edmonton AB 2009

  

Canada Cup, Edmonton AB – 2009 from Sheldon Smart on Vimeo.

Although I wasn’t in this race, despite planning and training for it, I did get to watch some wicked national level racing, and cheer on some of the locals guys that I know. Dana, sorry about your chain, man… You were killin’ it till it snapped! Sam, good to see you out there bringin’ the beats as usual. Peter, 4th place Masters Expert! Wooo hoo!!! And Paul, I think you said this was your first race in 4 years, so welcome back! 

The event organizers pulled off a really great event. They can be proud. Tons of riders, a stupendous urban XC course, and it was nice to see so many manufacturers out with their kits and demo bikes – Good times… For the first Canada Cup , Edmonton knocked it out of the park. I’m looking forward to 2010 already. This time I’ll be on the bike though :-)

 

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Guys from Mud Sweat and Gears

 

 

 

 

 

 

Masters Expert group

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ready to go!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start Finish

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start Finish

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bird's eye view of the course

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good times, good times!!!!

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5 Comments

paulo  on June 14th, 2009

Sounds like it was a perfect event. Hope you are in it next year. mmm … perhaps if I combine a climbing trip to Banff I could watch you compete as a total exciting package. I’ll be working on that.

Sheldon Smart  on June 14th, 2009

Hey Paulo! There sure would be a lot of better racers to watch than me, but I’ll take all the cheering section I can get! :-)

Cheers!

John Connors  on June 14th, 2009

Great little video clip, looked like a FUN event.

Ken Hurd  on June 15th, 2009

I’m sad that I missed it – Looked like a stellar event!! A lot of big names out there too.

Looking through the results I noticed a few things:

  • I missed Emily Batty taking 1st in the Elite Women category… She’s my favorite little mtb cutie, so that made me sad ;-)
  • A podium sweep by Hardcore in the Expert category is pretty impressive, that’s gotta feel good for them!
  • There was a massive Novice Men turnout – Nice to see
  • A lot of DNFs in the Sport Men (9 out of 30)
  • There was a decent Novice Women turnout, but sadly there were a lot of DNS’s. It’s nice to see Mtb racing gaining a little more traction with the women, but it would be nice to have a more robust turnout.

K8  on June 15th, 2009

WOW! Awesome. Nice vid. Wish I’d been there.

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