Miller and Wells Make it Two at Jingle Cross – Updated: Full Results, Video, Photos

by Jared Roy

IOWA CITY, IA – Even on a beautiful sunny day, the record rains from earlier in the week kept the grounds at Jingle Cross Rock muddy like peanut butter. Riders’ brakes filled with so much mud that the wheels wouldn’t spin and derailleurs were being shred everywhere.  Mt. Krumpet was relentless today with a muddy run-up and a treacherous downhill that took many victims.

Miller Time

Meredith Miller of the California Giant Strawberry team took off early in the race and was gone. Her power through the course was unstoppable. Linda Sone (Planet Bike) made a hard charge but couldn’t close the sizable gap. Sone was letting it all loose on the muddy downhill of Mt. Krumpet and at one point was headed straight into the woods, nearly hitting a tree, but recovered nicely and held on. Sone and her teammate Kristin Wentworth were together early in the race until a strong Kari Studley of Velo Bella caught and dropped Wentworth. Miller crushed the field for first with Sone taking second and Studely third.

Wells Makes it Two

The Men’s race was stacked with talent today with the Wells brothers, both Lalondes and even Ned Overend showed up to show the youngsters how to do it in the mud.

Todd Wells (Specialized) took the hole-shot followed by Troy Wells (Clif Bar)and the race was on. Ryan Iddings (Lapierre), yesterday’s most aggressive rider, was again mixing it up in the top five and putting on a show as he descended Mt. Krumpet.

On the second lap Todd Wells opened a sizable gap (see video of him descending Mt. Krumpet) and the race for second place was a group of Ryan Iddings, Planet Bike teammates Tristan Shouten and Marco Lalonde, and Brian Matter (Gear Grinder). Iddings would open a gap on the downhill, but Shouten, LaLonde, and Matter would catch back on in the flats. With three to go Lalonde went down on Mt. Krumpet and was left chasing the group.

On the final lap, Shoutan was the only one to take a bike in the pits as Idding and Matter rode on. Iddings then had a mechanical and was forced to run his bike while fixing it. Shoutan and Matter were gone.Marco Lalonde caught and dropped Iddings and was in close pursuit of Shoutan and Matter but ran out of time. It was a two-man sprint between Shoutan and Matter for second. Shoutan won the sprint with Matter filling out the podium.  Lalonde rolled in for fourth with Iddings taking fifth. Photos below the results.

See our coverage of Jingle Cross Rock from Friday evening and Sunday.

Full Results:

Elite Women:

Rank	Name	Nat.	Age*	Result
1	Meredith MILLER	USA	37	38:34
2	Linda SONE	USA	38	40:21
3	Kari STUDLEY	USA	30	41:03
4	Kristin WENTWORTH	USA	31	41:14
5	Rebecca MUCH	USA	24	41:56
6	Kaitlin ANTONNEAU	USA	18	42:08
7	Kris WALKER	USA	49	43:14
8	Corey COOGAN	USA	33	43:17
9	Lisa CURRY	USA	29	44:42
10	Marne SMILEY	USA	28	44:59
11	Robin WILLIAMS	USA	31	45:13
12	Holly KLUG	USA	39	45:23
13	Elizabeth WELLIVER	USA	31	51:15
14	Megan ELLIOTT	USA	28
15	Patti KAUFMANN	USA	52

Elite Men:

1	Todd WELLS	USA	35	58:43	30	30
2	Tristan SCHOUTEN	USA	28	1:00:00	20	20
3	Brian MATTER	USA	32	1:00:02	15	15
4	Marko LALONDE	USA	28	1:00:09	12	12
5	Ryan IDDINGS	USA	26	1:00:28	10	10
6	Jake WELLS	USA	32	1:02:41	8	8
7	Mitch HOKE	USA	22	1:02:55	6	6
8	Alex HOWES	USA	22	1:03:03	4	4
9	Edmund OVEREND	USA	36	1:03:08	2	2
10	Jack HINKENS	USA	19	1:03:42	1	1
11	James LALONDE	USA	25	1:04:10
12	Scott MCLAUGHLIN	USA	41	1:04:12
13	Ryan KNAPP	USA	26	1:04:17
14	Chris HURST	USA	20	1:04:48
15	Jesse RIENTS	USA	33	1:05:19
16	Kevin MCCONNELL	USA	29	1:05:53
17	Ben POPPER	USA	28	1:07:11
18	Shadd SMITH	USA	39	1:07:40
19	Josh JOHNSON	USA	34	1:07:40
20	Jeff WINKLER	USA	42	1:09:05
21	Michael HEMME	USA	31	1:10:05
22	Mathew ALLEN	USA	29	1:11:21
23	Adam MILLS	USA	31
24	Jacob HELMBRECHT	USA	34
25	David QUIST	USA	39
26	Teodoro RAMOS	USA	34
27	David SACHS	USA	29
28	Logan VONBOKEL	USA	21
29	Bill STREET	USA	25
30	Spencer HAUGH	USA	32