On Saturday, March 4, 25 members of the ECHS Mountain Bike Racing Team competed at the NorCal league’s second race of the season at Exchequer Mountain Bike Park in the foothills near La Grange in Mariposa County. On Friday, as menacing clouds gathered overhead, riders were nevertheless able to complete a cold, but mostly dry pre-ride of the courseContinue reading “Exchequer XC – 03/04/2023 – Race Report”
Category Archives: Race Reports
Modesto MTB Match – 02/18/2023 – Race Report
On Saturday February 18, the ECHS Mountain Bike Racing Team competed in its first race of the season, in Modesto at Tuolumne River Regional Park. It was the second time NICA hosted a race at the new park. Our 23 riders were part of a field of 518 riders across the region. ECHS came in 3rd placeContinue reading “Modesto MTB Match – 02/18/2023 – Race Report”
Six Sigma Championship – 05/21/2022
On Saturday, May 21st, 18 members of the ECHS MTB team were among 585 racers from 77 NorCal teams who competed at the Championship race at Six Sigma Ranch in Lake County. At the end of the day, El Cerrito High–under the guidance of Head Coach Doug Diego–took home the 3rd place trophy for teamContinue reading “Six Sigma Championship – 05/21/2022”
Six Sigma Showdown – 05/01/2022
This weekend, 21 members of the ECHS MTB Race team participated in the NorCal Regional Semifinals at Six Sigma Ranch and Winery in Lower Lake. Riders lined up against other high schools from the East Bay all the way down to the Central Coast to ride a gorgeous, technical, meandering loop that was lined withContinue reading “Six Sigma Showdown – 05/01/2022”
Six Sigma Showdown – 05/01/2022 – Tristan Schonfeldt-Aultman
This race was going to be interesting. It was the first race of the season where varsity was going to go first at 8. I didn’t really know how I was going to handle that but I preferred it over waiting the whole day for our race. So we woke up and started warming upContinue reading “Six Sigma Showdown – 05/01/2022 – Tristan Schonfeldt-Aultman”
BHHR 4/23/2022 – DJ Kang
I had never done a road race before. I registered and knew it would be a long sprint. I kept up the whole way until we got to Castro ranch rd and my chain had problems going. I lost about 20 seconds and couldn’t recover and at that point knew just finish. I didn’t feelContinue reading “BHHR 4/23/2022 – DJ Kang”
BHHR 4/23/2022 – Will Diego
This was by far the most bizarre race I’ve done, mainly because I race XC and this was my first ever road race. Rather than an all out sprint at the start, the race began with a gradual ride down San Pablo Dam Road. For the first few miles I was in the middle ofContinue reading “BHHR 4/23/2022 – Will Diego”
BHHR 4/23/2022 – Jack O’Neal
Coming into this race with a week of riding this new bike I didn’t want to crash. For most of the race we were riding pretty chill except for when Grant put in some attacks to keep us on our toes. No one got off the front and the people at the front were playingContinue reading “BHHR 4/23/2022 – Jack O’Neal”
BHHR 4/23/2022 – Odin Simms
I came into this race with low expectations. Not because I didn’t think I was strong enough, but because of the day I had ahead of me. I planned to do this race, then immediately drive to Napa for a practice ride with my enduro team. I tried to be as competitive as possible duringContinue reading “BHHR 4/23/2022 – Odin Simms”
Modesto Flow 4/9/2022 – DJ Kang
I was going into Modesto, looking for glory. I did the preride and thought to myself, this course feels like a breeze. I got back to the hotel, hanging with the team and knowing I could manage my diet well the next morning. I made sure I had plenty of water and energy for theContinue reading “Modesto Flow 4/9/2022 – DJ Kang”
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