2025 Cantua Creek Road Race - Men's Cat 3

Race: Cantua Creek Road Race - Men's Cat 3

Date: February 15, 2025

AVRT racers: Ryan Dyke

Top Result: DNF (or 1st, depending on who you ask)

Course: Three laps of a 22 mile out and back. Chilly but not very much wind. Finishes with a 3% 0.8 mile climb

Strava: https://strava.app.link/fNnJjX2hnRb

Nutrition: Just water

Recap: This was my first race of the season, so I had low expectations going in. Unfortunately even those expectations didn’t include flatting in the first 12 minutes of the race. Luckily I brought a flat kit for some reason, so I pulled over and fixed it on the side of the road.

At this point, rejoining the group was not going to happen, so I rode back to the start, told the officials what happened, and accepted my DNF. After picking some stuff up from my car, I went back on the course between packs to get a bit of a ride in and then called it a day. Overall, great ride and nice course but bad luck.

Later that night, I was chatting with a teammate on Slack when he congratulated me on my win. I was like, “I flatted out lol, definitely didn’t win”, but then I checked ontheday.net and realized that the officials counted me at the end of my solo ride. I cleared it up with them the next day, but the moral of the story is that you need to remove your number or cover it when you pass the officials. At the start of Pine Flat the next day, every racer really wanted to know who I was and why they hadn’t seen me at all during the previous day’s race.