Outdoor Central Oregon Issue 9 | January/February 2019 | Page 30

30 JAN/FEB 2019 CYCLOCROSS NATIONALS| DECEMBER 2018 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Photos by Bill Warburton Top: Jacob Olander runs up one of the many muddy sections. A quarter of this years course required running because of the deep mud. Each lap the racers came into the pits to get a freshly washed bike otherwise you were toast. Left: Tanner Bowen riders an off camber and dryer part of the course. Like father, like son, but could have used that clean diaper change over in the pits. Above: Bart Bowen is a cycling legend but even with that status he still has to ride the same mud like everyone else. Opposite page: Cyclocross racers say they like mud if they didn’t, they’d stick to the road. Here, Tanner Wescott wears his Kentucky Mud well. 31