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Caption: NorCal.CX SupCat
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Caption: Hosted at Lake Cunningham in San Jose, CA the SupCat is quickly becoming a Northern California marquee event. After its second year in a row many people are asking when nationals will end up here?
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Caption: The forest section was a veritable maze of trees. Advantage went to bike handling and navigation in this section of a course that otherwise lent itself to raw power.
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Caption: The corse also hosted a number or tricky corners and steep descents that made for some interesting use of lines. Some being obviously better than others.
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Caption: Even though the course is generally flat there's this monster of a run up that most racers dreaded every lap. Though the elite racers were riding most of it there were always grimaces on their faces by the time they crested the hill.
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Caption: _______ WOMEN'S ELITE
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Caption: The women's race quickly became a one woman race with Caro sprinting off the line and leaving all competition thinking about second place.
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Caption: Caro Gomez Villafane
women's elite 1st place
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Caption: _______ MEN'S ELITE
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Caption: The men's race was chaos from
the start, but after the dust would eventually settle it became a fierce battle for every spot on the podium.
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Caption: Tobin "McTubbin" Ortenblad
Men's elite 1st place
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Caption: "SupCat!"
Caption: And thus we see the end of the cyclocross season. It's been a fun year so far and now to look forward to getting out of the mud, jumping on our mountain bikes and slaying some trails.
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