Photos

Greg McNeill has uploaded a huge number of photos here.

Drone footage of the first lap of the A race here. Ness runs into the tape at 1:40 putting him way back at the start of the race.

Thanks!

What an amazing job by everyone. Huge huge thanks to everyone who helped out.

Results are here.

The permanent CrossTastic page is here.

See you next year!

Course Maps

 

Kids Course

Adult Course

Friday Update and Thanks!

1/ Firstly, thanks to everyone who has volunteered. You're awesome! We can proceed with the race. 

2/ Things will go much smoother/quicker if you have your vaccine info (whether card, on phone, printed copy of QR code) and your ID ready before you pull up.

It'll also help if everyone comes from the same direction i.e. on St. Joseph from the south heading north to the park (park will be on right hand side).

3/ Because it's such an open park in order to comply with the city's requirements everyone will be given a wristband at the vaccine check. You'll need to wear that while on site. A bonus if you want to warmup or have to park outside of the park is you can just show the wrist band when re-entering.

4/ A few managed to register by going directly to CCN before we actually opened registration. If you're one of those eager beavers please make sure you look at the updated tech guide. There are some significant changes.

Volunteers

As per the post below the city is requiring that events in it's parks with greater than 50 people present must be fully vaccinated. EVERYONE 12 years of age and older will need to present and have verified their vaccine passport (vaccine passport and for adults matching government issued photo ID) before entering the park, this includes to park or drop off. 

In order to accomplish this we'll require a team of volunteers in short shifts to do the checking. Unfortunately if we do not have enough volunteers we'll have to cancel the event. If we do not meet the city's requirements we will lose our ability to hold cyclocross races in the future.

If you're able to help please look at the spreadsheet here then email me at gsewell at mymts dot net with your first and second choice of open time slot for when you can volunteer or if you are open to any. Some time slots have more than one opening so we can help more than one vehicle or person at a time. At the end of the day we'll still need someone at the entrance even though there may be next to no one coming in. I'll fill in the slots as we go. Your help is vital to running the race and really appreciated.

For vaccine verification you'll need to download the app (Manitoba immunization verifier) to your smart phone and you'll need to use cellular data to run the app on Sunday. We can cover your cellular data costs if that's an issue.

Challenges

It's been a challenging year and a half for everyone in many different ways. One thing we've all learned is that it helps to be flexible and adaptable. I got a bit of a curveball yesterday with the City informing that their requirements for use of the park are different from what we were expecting based on what Sport Manitoba had told to the MCA regarding the latest public health orders. That may mean that CrossTastic will have to be a fully vaccinated event (12+). I expect to resolve this today. It's not our decision to make, but in the event that the only way to proceed is by being fully vaccinated there would be two consequences:

1/ EVERYONE 12+ will have to prove full COVID vaccine immunization (via the card and app) before they can enter the area (that includes to park or drop off).

2/ Volunteers will be needed to check status as people enter the park. We'll need people to sign up for shifts to do that and unfortunately will have to cancel the event if not enough people do.

UPDATE: We'll need to proceed as a fully vaxxed event. If we don't  execute correctly we'll lose access to our city venues for future races. We can pull this off! By tomorrow morning I'll upload a spreadsheet that people can sign up to and reopen registration. Thanks!