August 1/14 13:40 pm - SingleTrack Six Final standings

Posted by Editoress on 08/1/14
 

One hundred and fifty kilometres west of the town of Golden lies Revelstoke.  This former mining town, turned recreational playground, was host the final day of the 2014 Singletrack 6: the Red Racer Stage 6. 

A downtown start in Grizzly Plaza, and parade style lead out through town courtesy of the local RCMP, connected the riders to the Mt. MacPherson Recreation Area.  With the help of the Revelstoke Cycling Association, this network has grown to 30 plus singletrack trails with some of the most diverse riding anywhere.  Over the 47km, this stage would throw a little bit of everything at the riders: short power climbs, gradual long climbs, rocks, roots, flowy descents...the list goes on.

After 5 days in the saddle many of the battles for ST6 overall titles had been determined earlier in the week.  In the team event, the Open Men, Open Women, 80+ Men, 80+ Mixed and 100+ Open categories had been blown wide open.  The final stage would finish with each team gapping their closest competitors by at least thirty-seven minutes over the six days.  In the end, the slimmest overall margin of victory came in the Open Mixed where Anja McDonald and Tristan Rawlence took the overall by just over fourteen minutes.

On the solo side, dominance was the name of the game.  Kris Sneddon stood atop the podium five times among the Open Men leading to an overall time gap of 8:51.  Kate Aardal took the title for the Open Women with 5 stage victories by a combined 30 minutes.  Anthony Slowinski and Filip Meirhaeghe, in the 40+ Men, battled back-and-forth all week with Slowinski taking the overall by less than 4 minutes.  Golden, B.C. rider Rich Marshal was tops among the 50+ Men finishing out his week 2nd on the day but over nine minutes ahead of Tony Routley in the overall.

A series of four timed descents were introduced on Stages 1, 4, 5 and 6.  This 'race within a race' was largely for bragging rights among buddies and a fun way for the technically gifted descenders to show their strength.  In the end, Shane Kroeger's combined time of 27:48 placed him 53 seconds in front of Jonathon Firth.  For the ladies, Mical Dyck captured three of four descents for a 56 second margin of victory over Kate Aardal.

With six stages down the inaugural Singletrack 6 was in the bag.  Thank you to all our riders, volunteers and staff for making ST6 a huge success and one great celebration of Canadian mountain biking.  In less than a year we will do it all again with six new stages in the Thompson Okanagan!


Stage 6 Image gallery 

For 2015 Singletrack 6 will be mixing up the routing!  Introducing Singletrack 6 2015: Thompson Okanagan.  We're currently lining up host communities and resorts and pre-riding all the stages.  Below is a sneak peek at what we have in store.  Stages will be announced beginning October, 2014.  REGISTRATION IS OPEN!  The field limit is 400 riders so register early!    
 
Dates: July 26th - July 31st, 2015
•  6 stages in the sun drenched, wine loving and lake plentiful Thompson Okanagan in beautiful British Columbia
•  Kelowna as the event hub with Kelowna International Airport serving as the host airport
•  Host communities and resorts may include: Kelowna, Penticton, Merrit, Kamloops, Silverstar, Salmon Arm, Apex and Sicamous
•  The highest percentage of singletrack of any mountain bike stage race
•  Varied terrain ranging from buff to hard pack to loose rock to slickrock with a healthy dose of technical descending mixed in
•  Challenging climbs to spectacular views of lakes and mountains followed by wicked descents
•  Stage distances averaging 40km with 1200m of elevation gain

Singletrack 6 press release

The final stage of the SingleTrack Six was held July 31st in Revelstoke, BC.  The day's distance was 47km with an elevation gain of 1200m.

Final standings

Stage by stage details