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Show WedThursFri, June 30-July 2, 2004 The Park Record Locals mU at gmeling Solitude races SixferkCHyridere win state titles in ICS races on Saturday By BRETT LARSEN Of the Record staff Solitude Mountain Resort has been kind to Team Sugar mountain moun-tain biker Jean Carlan. In two Intermountain Cup Series races in the past two years, the Park City rider has never finished lower than second. In Saturday's Utah Open State ChampionshipsChris Allaire Memorial races at the resort, Carlan extended the streak, winning win-ning the women's sport division with a time of 1:21.01, just one second ahead of fellow Sugar rider Stacy Newton. The win was also one of six for Park City riders rid-ers in the ninth ICS race of the season. "It felt darn good," said Carlan, referring to her photofinish photo-finish win over Newton. "I was in the lead. I thought she was further fur-ther back. It could have been either one of us." Besides Carlan, Park City winners win-ners were: Cole Sport's Jon Gallagher (single-speed), the Young Riders' Dutch Wiehe (men's sport 16-18), Jeff Butler (Mad Dog Cycles, men's sport 40-plus), 40-plus), Jan's rider Todd Henneman (expert men 30-39) and Dwight Hibdon (Mad Dog Cycles, men's 50-plus). Although he was pleased with his win, Gallagher, usually a road racer, regards the Solitude event as a training exercise for the upcoming national road championships champi-onships as much as a chance to move up on the ICS circuit. "It was important for me to win the race, but for me, it's a training stop on the way to nationals," he said. Gallagher's single-speed category cate-gory is a new one in ICS competition competi-tion this year, and although there arent many competitors in the division yet (there were only four on Saturday, including Team Sugar's Brook Shinsky), he says he was especially driven to win the single-speed state championship champi-onship because it was he who pressured ICS race director Ed Chauner into forming the division. divi-sion. "Ed took the time and energy. I kind of had the responsibility to at least show up, if not win it," Gallagher said. No matter what division the competitors rode in, all of them had to overcome a huge climb to . start off the race. After leaving the startfinish area near the resort's Moonbeam Lodge, the route climbed nearly 1,000 feet straight up the mountainside, moun-tainside, meaning 20 to 30 minutes min-utes of grueling uphill to start out the race. "It's really kind of suffering. It just hurts," said Hibdon, describing describ-ing the ascent. "You have to really real-ly press forward and give it everything you have." Still, compared to the route used at the June 5 Deer Valley Pedalfest - a course almost unanimously unan-imously dubbed the toughest in the ICS by those who have ridden it the Solitude course was much easier, Carlan said. She added that its healthy mixture mix-ture of single-track, technical descent and dirt roads made for an entertaining variety of challenges. chal-lenges. "You can have a lot of fun with it," she said. Although the route started out with a huge climb, the second half of the loop was pretty pret-ty much all downhill, she said. "The downhill is pretty technical, techni-cal, pretty rocky," Hibdon added. "You have to be right on top of it. "It's really important to stay focused," he continued. "If you lose focus, you could go off... and usually crash." For Hibdon, it was his first state championships win since 1992. Although he was in third place going into the final stretch of the race, he was able to slowly overtake over-take the leaders and win his division divi-sion by nearly a minute. "I just felt good," he said. SSL ilk 1 : v mm StMMiT & Wasatch CotMies APARk GiTy E. StanIey RodiER MD FRCP(C) FAAD AdtlT AchildREN ACQSMETiC Board QRiimn Fatow amirican socinv K)R WRMAICXCXJC St R&ERV & SWN C AV1R IMC . Mfdi(ARF Mosi oihiR Insikaves Board CfRiiuii) )RM-K)PAlHOIOCi reuow AMfRicw sfxifn Of MOMS' 1KRX.RAPHIC SWN CAV R SIKC.IW 455-649-4145 1-800-755-2555 PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE DOUGHERTY Park City Young Rider Mike Voth negotiates a stretch of single-track single-track at the Utah Open State Championships at Solitude Mountain Resort on Saturday. "Everything just fell together great." In a field of 212 riders at Solitude, 45 were from Park City. Intermountain Cup racing con tinues on Saturday at the Brian Header at Brian Head resort. To see how all the local riders fared, check out the Scoreboard on page B-4. UOP zipline opening delayed till Aug. 7 This weekls highlight: The public opening of the world's steepest zipline at the Utah Olympic Park has been pushed back to Aug. 7. The delay is due to allowing proper time for the concrete to cure. The Olympic Park is installing eight ziplines with four each from the top of the K120 Nordic hill and the winter win-ter freestyle hill. Each line delivers riders to the ski jump base. The K120 zipline reaches a maximum speed of 55 mph with a 435-foot vertical ver-tical drop at a 33 percent grade. The public will be able to ride the ziplines while athletes are simultaneously jumping on the K64, K90 and K120 hills. 2007 Single Distances Speed Skating World Championships coming to Utah: The Single Distances Speed Skating World Championships, the premier speed skating event, has been awarded to the Utah Olympic Oval in March 2007, the International Skating Union announced recently. The Oval hosted this same event in March 2001 as its official test event prior to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Champions from the Torino 2(X)6 Olympic Winter Games will he showcased in an event that has the same format as the Olympics with men's races at 500, 1 ,000, 1 ,500. 5,000 and 10,000 meters and women's competition at 500, 1.000, 1,500, 3,000 and 5.(X meters. The 2004 Single Distances Speed Skating World Championships were held in Seoul, Korea while the 2005 event will be in Inzell. Germany. 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