After the ride, I jumped in the car and headed to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to watch the AC juniors tear it up in a cyclocross race. Now I say the AC junior team but a more accurate description is probably the ACR U16 terror squad. Despite the fact that none of the juniors has a valid drivers license they seriously took charge of the race. ACR's Spence Petterson won the mens B race and the rest of the team also had strong showings. There were probably over 100 riders in the field and the junior team seriously represented with all the riders in the top third! Good job boys!
It was a beautiful day here in Northern California. I stopped to take this picture as we crossed Alpine Dam around 11am. Not a cloud in the sky!
ACR's Sklyer Taylor, age 14, looking pro warming up before the start!
ACR's Bob Siegel(16) and Spence Peterson(14) warming up before the start. Bob and Spence had some sort of crazy warmup routine they were doing, but it apparently works well as Spence went on to win the race with Bob a solid 7th!
This is a video of the start of the men's B race that the juniors were in. A huge field!
Check out all the people cheering at the run up. Gotta love the energy out here!
Here's a good pic of Blair Peterson, Spence's dad, flying up the run up in the singlespeed race. Blair is a super nice guy and it is cool that Spence has his whole family, mom and sisters included, cheering him on at the races. Side note - Blair is riding a super sick Potts singlespeed cyclocross bike. Steve Potts is a legend in the frame building/mountain bike world. He personally helped me out as a junior and it was cool seeing Blair race such an awesome machine.
