Well another successfull Trialsworx…even for Mitchell! He did come away unscathed here! The sections were quite difficult. It was pretty hot as well so we decided to just do 2 laps instead of 3. Even then we had to send out search and rescue for Alex Li.
As usual John Webster won the event although Russell Phillips seems to be closing the gap a little? John rode spectacularly as always!! Jeff Anderson was a little further back but he was up there with me since Wednesday setting everything up and with all the work he did I am sure it took a lot out of him for the competition. Thanks a ton Jeff!!!
The sections were long as usual with Webster being the only Elite rider to make it thru the ‘bucks creek section. It was right near the end of the day and he made it thru with about 5 seconds to go, gapping up the entire waterfall and just squeaking thru to a huge eruption from the crowd.
In the Expert category Joe Baxter from the UK won a VERY tight race. Joe had 12 pts, Alex Li had 13 and Zak Maeda had 15. Nice big group of Experts including Mitchell Long and John Goodwin competing for the first time in Expert at Whistler.
In Master Jeff Lenosky fixed his passport problems just in time to win with just 16 pts! Only 4 more than the Expert winner. Jason Yu and Jason Cuthbert rounded out the podium. In Sport Gino Salveo took first by 2 points over Jay K-C. and James Wessels 3rd. Sean Watson rode brakeless and still managed 4th! Cameron Rinkes came up from Oregon but had to DNF due to illness.
In Poussin we had a ton of riders with Danielito winning with 0 pts. The Coupal brothers are VERY glad that Danielito is turning 11 next year!!!! Josh and Ryan Coupal finished right behind Danielito and should dominate the category until they turn 11! Lots of other very young kids including youtube sensation Jackson Goldstone who at 6 still won a medal in the Beginner category.
Kidsworx was a riot as always…..79 kids were registered including many pushbikes and a young boy on a wheelchair who had the biggest smile of the weekend on his face….except when Jeff was helping him up and down the first ramp obstacle! Lots of very cute colour coordinated girls and a little boy with a donald duck helmet and a soother! Kidsworx is the highlight of the Crankworx festival in my opinion!!!!!
Thanks to all who helped with the kids event including Trevor Bodogh from Ontario and Ian Johansen, Lauren for having to sign up that many kids, Jason of course and Jeff as well who was there the entire week. Thanks to John Webster for grabbing some riders and checking for the Friday event (good karma John?)…..big Daniel for singlehandedly taking down the Fitz Creek sections….of course the Long and Goodwin families for helping out with everything including making the evenings so much fun! Shirl for all the background stuff that nobody notices…Secret Cycles for donating prizing as well as 2 pushbikes to raffle off, Clif Bar for donating 200 bars, wherestheseat.com and CBTrials for donating prizing….Eric Crowe and Bubba from the muni for getting us those awesome logs. Again…props to Jason and Jeff for making it happen!!!
Results:
| Novice (Beginner) | ||||
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Points | Cleans |
| 1. | WEI TIEN | HO | 9 | 5 |
| 2. | RHYS | HIGGINS | 14 | 4 |
| 3. | JACKSON | GOLDSTONE | 22 | 3 |
| 4. | HAYDEN | SANSALONE | 33 | 2 |
| 5. | NOAH | LEVINKIND | 34 | 1 |
| 6. | RONIN | SAKAMOTO | 34 | 1 |
| 7. | ANDREW | WILSON | 43 | 1 |
| 8. | SETH | SAKAMOTO | 48 | |
| 9. | KAEDEN | EWEN | 50 | |
| 10. | BAILEY | GOLDSTONE | 50 | |
| 11. | JIMMY | HODGSON | 50 | |
| 12. | CONNOR | MATTHEWS | 50 | |
| 13. | JAXON | COOPER | 50 | |
| 14. | BENJAMIN | COOPER | 50 | |
| 15. | FINN | FINESTONE | 50 | |
| 16. | MASON | GAUTREY | 50 | |
| 17. | STELLA | BROWN | 50 | |
| Poussin (under 10) | ||||
| 1. | DANIELITO | CHERNETSKI | 0 | 10 |
| 2. | JOSHUA | COUPAL | 5 | 9 |
| 3. | RYAN | COUPAL | 7 | 4 |
| Sport | ||||
| 1. | GINO | SALVEO | 20 | 2 |
| 2. | JAY | KENDRICK-COOK | 22 | 2 |
| 3. | JAMES | WESSELS | 34 | 0 |
| 4. | SEAN | WATSON | 43 | 0 |
| 5. | LUCAS | PHILLIPS | 48 | 0 |
| 6. | ALLY | NOORMOHAMMED | 48 | 0 |
| Master | ||||
| 1. | JEFF | LENOSKY | 16 | 4 |
| 2. | JASON | YU | 36 | 2 |
| 3. | JASON | CUTHBERT | 46 | 0 |
| 4. | IAN | JOHANSEN | 48 | 0 |
| Expert | ||||
| 1. | JOE | BAXTER | 12 | 6 |
| 2. | ALEX | LE | 13 | 5 |
| 3. | ZAK | MAEDA | 15 | 3 |
| 4. | CHRIS | HII | 24 | 4 |
| 5. | BRETT | MCCULLOUGH | 32 | 1 |
| 6. | DYLAN | KORBA | 33 | 2 |
| 7. | JOE | MAHER | 34 | 2 |
| 8. | BEN | COSTIN | 43 | 1 |
| 9. | JOHN | GOODWIN | 46 | |
| 10. | JESSE | MONTANDEN | 46 | |
| 11. | MITCHELL | LONG | 47 | |
| 12. | JUAN | WORTH | 50 | |
| 13. | BRANDON | LAW | 50 | |
| Elite (Pro) | ||||
| 1. | JOHN | WEBSTER | 17 | 4 |
| 2. | RUSSELL | PHILLIPS | 21 | 5 |
| 3. | JEFF | ANDERSON | 35 | 3 |
| 4. | STEVE | DICKIN | 37 | 1 |
| 5. | STEVE | BAIA | 48 | |
| 6. | TREVOR | BODOGH | 50 | |
| 7. | KEVIN | LIU | 50 | |
| 8. | AARON | DOBLER | 50 | |