ing positions until a navigation
error toward the final stretch left
Hart with an opportunity to pull
a few bikelengths ahead and
secure second place. Riordan
crossed the finish line 14 sec
-
onds after Hart to round out the
podium.
With a weekend free and a
race close to home, Flatrock Mo-
torclub GasGas Factory Racing's
GNCC athlete Jordan Ashburn
stopped by to throw his hat in
the ring. Having experience in
riding hard enduro, Ashburn
was no slouch on the course,
keeping within a minute behind
the podium finishers the entire
first lap. Starting lap two, the
lead stretched to 10 minutes,
and Ashburn finished only 18
minutes behind the podium trio
for fourth overall, with Rocky
Mountain Yamaha's Cody Webb
closing out the top five only two
minutes later.
"I haven't gone that fast since
I used to race GNCCs back in the
day," said an excited LeBlond.
"I don't train to go fast like that
anymore, and I could tell the first
lap. There were a couple of hard
sections left after [a rocky uphill
called Trinity], but nothing where
you were going to get stuck, so I
was just going as fast as I could
until the checkered flag. [Riordan
and Hart] were close the whole
time, and I was stressing. They
were going back and forth, and it
let me get a little bit of a gap go
-
ing into the last hard section and
the Endurocross section; that
would've been chaos if we went
into that together. I'm pumped to
win this one."
"It wasn't the greatest day for
me," said Hart. "I never found a
good flow, I feel like. Those guys
definitely had this place figured
out, it seemed. They knew where
to go, and it seemed like they
had it dialed in, and I never could
get into a spot where I could
WIND
IN THE
P50
Championship
points leader
Trystan Hart took
second overall
despite not winning
a single section.
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