Sunday’s H2O Overdrive Triple Crown All Mountain Series finished off with the Super D Time Trial. The 2.1 mile course with 500 feet of decending would be a sub ten minute effort at threshold. The stage was set for a Team Sho-Air/Specialized sweep, as team mate and good friends Max Plaxton and Sid Taberlay were tied going into the final event of the weekend. Plaxton was in the pressure cooker as he was in a must win situation after his 5th in the Short Track race just twenty minutes earlier. The Mountie was obviously banged up, running a shredded pair of bibs that displayed some serious road rash.
Plaxton recovered from a crash in earlier competition to roost the pro Super D field
Riders were let off in 20 second increments based on current standings on the weekend. Plaxton went off first with team mate Taberlay hot on his heels. Wells, Kabush, Schultz, JHK, Bishop, Morka and others were soon to follow. Then as if the drama wasn’t enough, Plaxton went down loosing the front end of his S-Works in a left hand corner heading towards the finish. But Plaxton wasn’t to be denied this weekend and took the Super D win, over Rocky Mountain’s Geoff Kabush, Trek regional rider Dana Weber, Subaru/Gary Fisher’s JHK and Sho-Air/Specialized’s Sid Taberlay.
Looking down to the finish from the top of the Super D course.
The Super D win cemented Plaxton as the opening men’s champion of the H2O Overdrive Triple Crown at the Bonelli Park, with his team mate coming in for second. The top 5 overall would end up with Kabush taking 3rd, Todd Wells taking 4th and Sam Schultz taking 5th.
WOMENS SUPER D
In the women’s race, Okole Stuff.com Pua Sawicki took a big win in the Super D over rivals Kelli Emmet, Lene Byberg, Rock N Road’s Allison Mann and Tokyo Joe’s Chloe Forsman.