Race Results For The Golden State Mountain Bike Championship In Fontana
The climb up the steep rocky hill sent a waterfall of sweat down my face. The best shooting location was not always on flat ground. After a short vacation from shooting sporting event, I was back in the saddle shooting a mountain bike event in Fontana – the California Golden State Championship #3 in Fontana, CA on May 15th.
Riding fast down the multi-lap course, the cross county mountain bikers I’d seen before at other races, or at least, most of them. At the top of the hill, a race volunteer advised that most of the mtb riders were walking the steep, uphill portion of the course. Today, I chose to photograph the mountain bikers looking strong on the downhill section of the course.
Feeling the heat, the Fontana sun was a reminder that summer was near. The next SRC event in August would add a new level of dehydration for these mountain bike riders. In a four event series, this was the third for SRC and major sponsor Kenda.
A mixture of single track trails and fire roads made up the California Golden State Championship. With one major climb and descent on this multi-lap course, the XC mountain bike riders who had enough energy to smile for the camera during the first few laps had no energy for a pose near the end. A tight 90 degree turn slowed many of the mountain bikers to an almost stand still near the top of the course.
In today’s race, David Santos captured the XC mountain bike race in 1:29:07 with Griffith Vertican and Garnet Vertican earning the 2nd and 3rd place spots in 1:34:07 and 1:41:05, respectively. In the women’s division, Heather Rose captured 1st place and a fourth overall finish in 1:53:12.
For the men, the downhiller with the fastest time for the day was David Klaassen VanOorschot with 2nd and 3rd place going to Rich Houseman and Ryan Egusquiza, respectively. For the women’s division, Gabriela Williams took 1st place followed by Kelly Damschen in 2nd place.
Ryan Equsquiza took on the Super D race as well and won, followed by Eric Bierman in 2nd. Heather Rose, the XC winner, took the Super D winner’s division.
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