Today was a big day for the future of cycling at UCSD. The prospect of a Triathlon/Cycling team showdown had been discussed but never come to fruition…until today.

There had been some trash talk in the form of Facebook 'Wall' postings and jabs in the bike shop, but there was a good-natured vibe in the morning when we met at the shop to do a group ride down to Mission Bay. We did a lap, or two, ok three...around Fiesta trying to find a safe place to set up a start/finish line. After some illegal maneuvers on the one-way road, everyone safely grouped up. We sent people off on a 30 second interval, and everyone did 3 big loops of the island making for a 20K course, finishing on a slight uphill right by the start. We scored 7 deep.

Results are below:

1. Zack Simkover...... 27:24 Bike (alumni)
2. Alex Jarman......... 28:31 Bike
3. Colter Cederlof...... 29:29 Bike
4. Chris Burnham...... 29:51 TRI (alumni)
5. Frank Uyeda......... 30:09 TRI
6. Trevor Haag.......... 30:56 Bike
7. Justin Arnold......... 31:14 TRI
8. Jeff Kidder............ 31:22 Bike
9. John Burke............ 31:23 TRI
10. Marc Schommer.... 32:10 TRI
11. Ben Migliori.......... 32:42 TRI
12. Adam Strobl......... 32:52 TRI
13. Tim Machado........ 33:47 TRI
14. Josh Egbert.......... 34:04 Bike
15. Sante Kotturi........ 34:21 TRI
16. Blair Ryan............ 35:11 TRI
17. Tammy Wildgoose...35:19 Bike
18. Ben Reiter.............35:33 Bike
19. Ty Kubart............. 36:25 TRI
20. Bethany Sotak...... 37:20 TRI
21. Phil Bush............. 38:08 Bike
22. Garlen Yu............ 39:00 TRI
23. Allen Chan........... 42:35 TRI
24. Amanda Smith..... 43:43 TRI 

TEAM SCORES:

Bike: (1,2,3,6,8,14,17)=51

Tri: (4,5,7,9,10,11,12)=58

Hard to beat a 1,2,3 sweep...

Everyone was awesome! Thank you for making it out to represent our team.

Thanks to Robert Carr of the cycling team for making this race happen. Maybe it can be an annual thing now, and hopefully our teams will get together more in the future.