With scenery like this, Joe Sales couldn’t resist taking some scenic shots of the racing action at the 2011 Wedgewood New Brighton cyclocross race this past Sunday.
Clear blue sunny skies set the stage for what was to be the warmest and dustiest Langley Cyclocross Classic on record. Just over 100 participants took to the farm fields and forests of Aldor Acres for this early season ‘kick in the pants’ ’cross race. The course featured a long flat gravel section, barriers, a long run-up with a knee high log at the base of it (which only the top few were able to ride it), a single track descending section followed by some twisty turns through the trees in almost sand-like ground.
Photographer Joe Sales captured yesterday’s tight, exciting battle between the 2009 Collegiate National Champion Zach McDonald and the defending U23 Champion Danny Summerhill. Whether you were there in person, following our live coverage, or missed it entirely, you’ll likely appreciate the fine photography documenting the race.
Now that the chaos of the 2010 Cyclocross World Championships is over and fingers and cameras have thawed out, we’ve had a chance to sort through our photos from the big event. Up next is a final men’s race photo gallery from Joe Sales.
Both newly-crowned national champions and reigning world champions were present this past Sunday in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, for one last battle before the 2010 World Championships in Tabor. Cyclocross Magazine star photographer Joe Sales has finally started his annual European trip that we always anxious await and was there to capture some of the action [...]
Photographers Joe Sales and Janet Hill provided us with two galleries of photos of the cold, icy racing on Thurdsay at the 2009 Cyclocross National Championships in Bend, Oregon. They day started and ended the same – with a very slick course that required extra care in the corners and on the pavement.