Compton and Powers take the Friday night races in Ohio

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By VeloNews.Com

Jeremy Powers (Cannondale-cyclocrossworld.com) and Katie Compton (Planet Bike) were victorious by wide margins in Friday’s Cyclo Stampede, the opener of this year’s Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival.

But the race was truly dominated by the team of Mother Nature and Gravity. Mother Nature delivered plenty of pre-race rain, while gravity took advantage of riders as they rode, or rather, tried to ride, the multiple off-camber straights and turns on the course. Even Compton was victimized by the muddy slopes, falling twice and running off course in the first lap.

Surprisingly, Compton lost the hole shot to Sue Butler (Monavie-Cannondale) at the start of the women’s race. With only one bike available for this race, she never rode the course prior to the start, and elected not to lead the race since she didn’t know where the course went.

“Sue would have got the holeshot anyway,” she said of Butler. When asked why she didn’t have a pit bike, the World Cup leader explained that there had only been enough time between her busy travel schedule to assemble the two bikes she used in the world cup last weekend, and she and husband Mark (who finished third in the Elite Masters race) made the decision to leave one bike in Europe.

With Butler leading into the first off-camber “Slippy-Slide” section moments after the start of the race, Compton tried to pass on the low side of the hill. The two riders both careened, more-or-less out of control, to a point of convergence just before the course flattened out onto a golf cart path, knocking Compton into the tape and bringing her to a halt as she unhooked her bike. Just as she got going again, a chain reaction on the same “Slippy-Slide” brought seven riders down.

But the momentary stop, and two first-lap falls into the mud couldn’t slow down Compton for long. By the end of the third lap, she had a 93-second lead, which she extended throughout the remainder of the race. “I forgot how to ride mud,” said Compton after the race. “After the second lap I remembered how again and it got better, and the third lap was even better.”

Prior to the start of the men’s race, Ryan Trebon (Kona) pronounced the soggy, slippery course to be “burly” and said the one portion of asphalt golf cart path was “terrifying.”

That section would have a big effect on the race. Soon after the start of the men’s race, a lead trio of Powers and Kona teammates Trebon and Barry Wicks, pulled away from the field, while Danish national champion Joachim Parbo(CCV Leopard Cycles) and Mark Lalonde (Planet Bike) began a battle for fourth that would last most of the race.

“It was the kind of race where you just waited for somebody to make a mistake,” said Powers afterward. On the third lap, Trebon led Powers across the line, while looking back to find Wicks, who had been gapped by about ten bike lengths. Not long after, on a grass-to-pavement transition, Trebon flatted his front tire and had to run over half a lap. Powers never looked back and Wicks was never able to close the gap. Behind them, Parbo used his immense experience to gut-out a third place.

The Cincinnati UCI3 Festival continues with day 2 on Saturday with the Java Johnny’s Lionhearts International presented by Queen City Wheels in Middletown, Ohio.

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Results

Men’s results | Click for: ( Women’s results )

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• 1. Jeremy Powers Cannondale/cyclocrossworld.com
• 2. Barry Wicks Kona
• 3. Joachim PARBO Ccv Leopard Cycles
• 4. Mark LaLonde Planet Bike
• 5. Ryan Trebon Kona
• 6. Molly Cameron Portland Bicycle Studio
• 7. Troy Wells Team Clif Bar
• 8. Brian Matter Team Geargrinder
• 9. Greg Wittwer Alan North America Cycling Team
• 10. Weston Schempf C3 Sollay.com/athletes Serving Athletes
• 11. Ryan Knapp Panther/rgf P/b Felt Bicycles
• 12. Dave Weaver Alan North America Cycling Team
• 13. Andrew Wulfkuhle C3-Sollay.com
• 14. Mike Sherer Alderfer Bergen
• 15. Andrew Messer Drt Racing
• 16. Stephen Cummings Indiana Regional Medical Center
• 17. Scott McLaughlin Sram Factory
• 18. Mitchell Kersting Rapid Transit Racing
• 19. Ben Popper Hrs / Rock Lobster
• 20. Robert Kendall Barbasol
• 21. Noah Metzler Team Globalbike
• 22. Zachary Edwards Drt Racing
• 23. Matthew Weeks Team Lake Effect
• 24. Andrew Reardon Starbrite Carwash / Moab
• 25. Michael Kennedy Barbasol/ Rapid Transit
• 26. Eric Wondergem Hup United
• 27. Joshua Whitmore Team Globalbike
• 28. Brandon Jessop Boulder Cycle Sport
• 29. Jacob Virostko Biowheels/reece-Campbell Racing
• 30. Dustin Greer Ohio Valley Velo/maxxis
• 31. Marcus Moran Bob’s Red Mill/rocky Mountain
• 32. Katsuhiro Tanda Team Athens P/b Kt Prototype

Women’s results | ( Men’s results )

• 1. Katherine Compton Planet Bike
• 2. Susan Butler Monavie-Cannondale.com
• 3. Deidre Winfield C3 Sollay
• 4. Linda Sone Planet Bike
• 5. Laura Van Gilder C3 Sollay
• 6. Barbara Howe Vanderkitten Racing
• 7. Kimberly Flynn Vantaggio/specialized
• 8. Elizabeth Frye Boone Velo
• 9. Nicole Borem Drt Consulting
• 10. AnnaJean Dallaire Cannondale Factory Racing
• 11. Kristin Wentworth Planet Bike
• 12. Amanda McKay Biowheels/reece-Campbell Racing
• 13. Anne Schwartz Flying Rhino Cycling Club
• 14. Bridget Donovan Trekstorecincinnati/seven Cycles
• 15. Therese ( Teri) Meek Bikeclicks/team Louisville
• 16. Deb Sweeney Whitmore Bmw/bianchi
• 17. Marne Smiley Scott Bikes
• 18. Whitney Kroll Cane Creek

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