The GHY race team headed to Mission, BC this past weekend for the Arduum Challenge 2010, also the fourth stop of the BC cup series. The race is widely known as the most technically challenging course of the BC cup races. And the GHY riders agree this course is by far the most challenging course they have ever raced. On Friday the course was open for walking only so riders could pick lines to practice come Saturday. Practice started at 9 AM Saturday morning and the course was extra slick and all the rock features were coated with mud. As practice progressed the course began to dry out and speed up, but this was not beneficial to the riders. Come Sunday riders arrived to a course even slicker than Saturday morning due to rain overnight. And the course wasn’t going to improve as the day went on because of heavy cloud cover and mist. Each rider took their practice run Sunday morning and racing began at noon. Three team riders raced shortly after noon.

Andy Knott was the first of the three. Andy took fifth place in the Citizen 30+ category with a time of 4:54.61.

Jerry Southworth wasn’t far behind Andy, holding down sixth place with a 5:01.29.

The third GHY rider down the course was Trevor Louviere landing him an eighth place finish in Citizen 19-29 with a time of 4:24.98.

Just after 3:30 in the afternoon the Pro/Elite category was on course. Team rider Nick Tuttle dropped in mid-way through the pack and rode to 15th place in Pro Men with a time of 3:46.58.

The course was mentally and physically draining because riders needed to be on their toes at all times due to the technical challenge presented by the course. All in all the race was gnarly and everyone of the GHY riders left the race site having had a good weekend and looking forward to racing the course next year.

Story By Trevor Louviere………..Pictures ripped off from Racealot