She finished with a solid 10 minute lead over Dong, who finished in 7:26:22.Ĭonnors said she was drawn to the race after not having a chance to ride in Utah over the summer. “It was an interesting field and I didn’t know how things were going to go down.” “I knew most of the girls, and they mostly race shorter stuff and I mostly race longer than this, so we were meeting in the middle,” she said. After a strong start she kept pushing through the competition and led for most of the race. It was the second year running that the elite endurance racer had won both the Point 2 Point and the Leadville 100.Ĭonnors, a teacher in her life outside of racing, said she had a great day on her bike. She crossed the finish line with a time of 7:16.20. cross-country national championships, and Salt Lake resident Hannah Finchamp, who took ninth in the same competition.īut it was Larissa Connors, of Silverado, California, who finished first.
While the women’s pro competition was not quite as stacked as the men’s, it too drew a heavy-hitting roster which included previous winner Marlee Dixon, Midway rider Evelyn Dong, who took 17th in this year’s U.S. Next, he plans on riding in the Epic Rides finals in Bentonville, Arkansas, in early October. The champion’s post-race plans included dinner and bath time for his two kids, then bed. I’ve obviously had a good run here, and this race treats me well, so I’m lucky to be a part of it.” “I couldn’t be happier to come back and get another win in,” he said. Then, in 2016, he broke his calcaneus bone in his heel, and last year his second child was born two days before the race. In 2015 he was double booked with the cross-country mountain bike World Championship. The last time Grant raced the Point 2 Point was in 2014, when he won for the sixth time and was still the only person to have won the overall race. Grant hadn’t been in that shakeout for a long time. “It was just one of those (races where) people were showing their cards and you don’t know until Armstrong who is going to be the strongest,” he said. Grant took the lead on the Armstrong trail, holding it through the finish line at the Skullcandy headquarters. “We slowly started chipping it back,” Grant said, and by the time he had reached the Shadow Lake trail, Kalter, Finsterwald and Grant broke away. According to Grant, Driscoll led by more than two minutes going into the Prospector area.
He chased back up near the front of the group, then kept a “mellow” pace among the leaders through Round Valley, where Driscoll made a break away from the peloton. The United States National Mountain Bike Championships are held annually to decide the cycling champions in the mountain biking discipline, across various categories.Grant said he started the race slowly, getting a stick wedged in his dérailleur as he entered the first dirt section of the race.
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