{"id":1647,"date":"2011-10-03T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2012-12-22T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T00:30:46","slug":"october-1-2-purdue-xc-stxc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/october-1-2-purdue-xc-stxc\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue XC, STXC Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Saturday, October 1 \u2013 Cross Country (XC)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purdue University hosted the first race of the weekend, the cross country race, on the extremely\u00a0tight and twisty trails in McCormack Woods adjacent to the Purdue campus. The first race to start\u00a0was the Men\u2019s C, in which Jose Lugo and Carl Josephson competed. Overcoming a slow start that put him into the singletrack in the woods near the back of the pack, Lugo picked off riders in the\u00a0technically demanding serpentine sections of the trails to net a 5th place on the day.<!--more--> Josephson,\u00a0starting in his second race in his entire career, rode to a solid 11th place ahead of several more\u00a0experienced riders from the Midwest Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Douglas Ansel and Luke Tilmans competed in the Men\u2019s B race later in the morning. Ansel<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">picked up speed as the race went on and was in position to pass into 3rd position only one third of\u00a0the way into the 16 mile race. However, he suffered a flat tire and crash in quick succession that\u00a0prompted him to withdraw from the race with an injured knee. Tilmans began to pass riders in the\u00a0latter portion of the race and finished 4th, several slots better than his last race at the University of\u00a0Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sunday, October 2 \u2013 Short Track Cross Country (STXC)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The second day of racing at Purdue consisted of a short-track race held on a short 800m track with\u00a0several sharp climbs and off-camber turns that tested riders\u2019 technical ability and nerve. Douglas\u00a0Ansel was the only Notre Dame representative at the race and was leading the Men\u2019s B race at the\u00a0halfway point when he pushed too hard in a turn and crashed, losing 10-15 seconds and several\u00a0positions. He was able to pull himself back up to 3rd position at the finish, lapping several riders in\u00a0the process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 1 \u2013 Cross Country (XC) Purdue University hosted the first race of the weekend, the cross country race, on the extremely\u00a0tight and twisty trails in McCormack Woods adjacent to the Purdue campus. The first race to start\u00a0was the Men\u2019s C, in which Jose Lugo and Carl Josephson competed. Overcoming a slow start that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/october-1-2-purdue-xc-stxc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purdue XC, STXC Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49000,15607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-cyclocross","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cyclingirish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}