And this is the showdown…

I barely pulled off the win yesterday at the AGSI National XC Champs in Guelph over teammate Eric Gillis.  I seriously thought I was going to finish second when Gillis and I got to the bottom of the hill with 200m to go.  He has been stronger on the hills this fall than myself but I decided I wasn’t going out without a fight.  So I pushed hard halfway up the hill and got a small lead that I was able to hold onto until the finish line.  Speed River went 1,2,4,5,13 to claim the team title. 

Flotrack.com has a video of the race and many interviews up

http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/coverage.php?c=130

My friend was filming the race and captured this… enjoy

Results

    1  630 Reid Coolsaet                             Speed River TFC      1979  29:55.7

    2  631 Eric Gillis                               Speed River TFC      1980  29:56.2

    3  621 Dylan Wykes                               Physi-Kult           1983  30:12.7

    4  635 Rob Watson                                Speed River TFC      1984  30:27.0

    5  634 Taylor Murphy                             Speed River TFC      1979  30:29.4

    6  638 Derek Nakluski                            Toronto Olympic      1982  30:37.3

    7  659 Trevor Caldwell                           University of Toront 1979  30:45.2

    8  652 Chris Winter                                                   1986  30:47.1

    9  647 Joël Bourgeois                                                 1971  30:56.9

   10  579 James Gosselin                            Brooks Canada Marath 1977  30:57.7

   11  596 Spencer Morrison                          Hershey Harriers     1983  30:58.1

   12  627 Cleve (Michael) Thorson                   Saugeen              1981  31:00.1

   13  629 Scott Arnald                              Speed River TFC      1981  31:04.5

   14  574 Colin Fewer                               Athletic North East  1977  31:07.2

   15  644 Matthew Kerr                              Tri-City Track Club  1976  31:12.1

   16  661 Alex Hutchinson                           University of Toront 1975  31:15.6

   17  657 Geoff Kerr                                University of Calgar 1984  31:18.5

   18  618 Kris Swanson                              Pacific Athletics    1981  31:20.9

   19  637 Saheed Khan                               Toronto Olympic      1984  31:21.4

   20  633 Taylor Milne                              Speed River TFC      1981  31:25.9