Island Cup #3 Port Alberni April 23

The third Island Cup DH was held in Port Alberni last weekend and what a weekend for a race, blue sky, 20 degrees, a nicely groomed course and lots of good people to enjoy it. Everybody was super enthusiastic mostly due to amazing course Mike, Lee and the rest of Port crew put together. The top of the course is pretty tech with lots that would challenge any rider. And then once you cross the tracks it all changes, all of a sudden you're lettin it all hang out, high speed with sweet burmed corners, oh yah baby! At the bottom just keep pedaling until you hit the gap jump. One of the nicest things about this course is it's all single track through beautiful lush forest. I just can't say enough.



At the top you get to hang out and ejoy the beautiful view from the lookout and at the bottom there's a candy store, sweet! As usual the shuttling was a bit chaotic but they did a great job of getting everyone up for runs all weekend long.



*above pics by John Bazett*


In Expert men Drew Mitchell came out to make everybody look bad by rockin' the competition on his hardtail with a time of 4 min 26.33 sec, Dan Espeseth got second with 4 min 35.32 sec and Port Alberni local Kyle Johnson came third with 4 min 36.87 sec (even with hitting a tree right after the last gap jump).



In Expert ladies Adrienne Miller came in first with a time of 5 min 09.63, Glenowyn Carlson came second with 6 min 18.53 sec, and Kjersten Lone came third with 6 min 31.09 sec.



It was a fantastic weekend. Island Cup fun continues in Parksville at Hammerfest May 6, 7. For info check www.arrowsmithmtbclub.com. Can't wait to see you all there.