Garden Creek Gap Road Race

A few guys made the looong drive up to Arimo, ID to do the Garden Creek Gap race on Saturday. The weather was perfect and the road was dotted with fresh cow manure from someone moving their cattle from one pasture to another on that morning before the race started.

They changed the course this year so everybody did one less climb but making it logistically better to have the start and finish at the same place instead of 8 miles apart.

Kracht was up in front for the whole race and felt good about making the selection up the 2nd climb, taking 4th place in the final uphill push for the line in the 35+b race.
In the cat 4 race, matt and DC attacked early and often, on the first lap. The first climb got it down to 8 riders with our eric and tyler in the lead group. Seth came over the climb a few seconds later but spent the first half of the second lap trying to chase back on to the lead 8. After a few guys got together, seth got on with 3 others making the lead group 12 strong. They kept the pace fast enough to stay away from the rest of the pack that was chasing behind. Matt and DC sat on and watched everbody burn themselves up right before the climb the second time. The lead group had enough to charge up the hill the second time with tyler taking 2nd at the line and eric not far behind in 7th.Tyler holding his 2nd place envelope of what turned into gas money for the long drive home
This happened to matt at the 1km to go mark. He was happy that although he walked the last kilometer, he still did not take last.