Nearly 300 mountain bikers took off from Ketchum Town Square early Sunday morning and competed in the second annual “Rebecca’s Private Idaho” road/trail ride hosted by mountain bike racing champion Rebecca Rusch of Ketchum.
Cyclists rode out Trail Creek Road past Sun Valley and over Trail Creek Summit into the Pioneer Mountains and Copper Basin—returning to Town Square. Distances were the long 93.1-mile Big Potato deep into the Pioneers and a 56-mile Small Fry course into Wild Horse Creek Canyon.
There were 171 racers finishing the Big Potato (118 last year) and 104 doing the new Small Fry course.
Wood River Valley racer Josh Berry, 24, of Team SmartStop won the men’s Big Potato race in 4.40:34. The 2013 Whit Henry Galena Grinder king placed fourth in the USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Bike nationals July 5 on Baldy.
Berry won by 31 seconds over 12-year professional cyclist Robbie Ventura, 43, of Vision Quest Coaching, who raced for the U.S. Postal Service Team from 2001-04. Ventura was an All-American cyclist at Lake Forest College in Illinois and skated for the Lake Forest men’s hockey team.
The women’s Big Potato queen was reigning Idaho state time trial and road race champion Sarah Barber, 38, of Boise in 5.23:38. It’s been a good season for Barber, who also won the St. Luke’s Idaho criterium and competed in the Redlands and Cascade Bike Classics.
King and Queen of the Mountain winners were Neil Shirley, 36, of Newhall, Ca. and Kathryn Bertine, 39, of Saint Kitts and Nevis. She’s a pro racer for Wiggle-Honda, a former national time trial/road race champ and filmmaker out of Colgate University.
Winning Sunday’s Small Fry races were Patti Schmidt-Iverson of Hampton, Minn. (3.03:51) and Austin McInerny, 47, of Berkeley, Ca. (2.46:07). McInerny finished 44 seconds ahead of runner-up Zeb Stroebel-Haft of Hailey (2.46:51).
McInerny is a longtime proponent of youth mountain bike racing, passionate about develop biking into a mainstream high school sport in the U.S.
Former coach of the Berkeley High School mountain bike team, McInerny is executive director of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association, a youth development organization governing U.S. high school mountain biking.
Private Idaho results:
Big Potato 93.1-mile racers
Women: 1—Sarah Barber 5.23:38. 2—Lisa Nelson 5.25:07. 3—Jill Cederholm 5.29:56. 4—Sonja Johnston 5:43.30. 5—Nan Doyal 5.50:49. 6—Muffy Ritz 5.52:54. 7—Jessica Kisiel 6.20:49. 8—Kristi Mohn 6.23:22. 9—Amy Rice 6.28:48. 10—T-Race Petervary 6.37:08 and Gillian Forsyth 6.37:08. 12—Janeen McCrae 6.37:26. 13—Jennifer Johnson 6.38:55. 14—Chris Wilberg 6.39:16.
15—Crystal Wintle 6.43:29. 16—Mindy Simmons 6.44:29. 17—Peggy Trollan 6.49:57. 18—Judy Allen 6.50:43. 19—Julie Wilson 6.53:25. 20—Lisa Bush 7.00:46. 21—Cecilia Brunetti 7.04:12 and Sharon Shacher 7.04:12. 23—Jeri Howland 7.07:35. 24—Jennifer Donnelly 7.12:46. 25—Monica Grashuis 7.14:55. 26—Michelle Handren 7.53:40. 27—Ariel Knauff 7.53:48. 28—Katelyn Vonfeldt 7.54:08. 29—Patricia Ladesma 7.59:13.
30—Sneeta Takhar 8.05:59. 31—Anna Leavitt 8.15:53. 32—Sami Fournier 8.26:58. 33—Francine D’Amico 8.32:04. 34—Lisa Datillo 8.49:23.
Tandem: 1—Jeffrey Baker and David Houston 8.35:55.
Men: 1—Josh Berry 4.40:34. 2—Robbie Ventura 4.41:05. 3—Steve Price 4.42:41. 4—Chris McGovern 4.53:31. 5—Neil Shirley 4.55:13. 6—Nate Whitman 4.57:36. 7—Alan Adams 4.57:45. 8—Todd Morton 4.58:25 and Joel Brazil 4.58:25. 10—Yuri Hauswald 4.58:58. 11—Dan Hughes 4.59:46. 12—Peter Sullivan 4.59:48. 13—James Coats 4.59:51. 14—Randy Acker 5.01:49.
15—T. Burke Swindlehurst 5.05:40. 16—Matt Luhn 5.08:33. 17—Jay Petervary 5.10:20. 18—Roger Malinowski 5.11:12. 19—Jeff Ward 5.11:13. 20—Todd Meier 5.11:14. 21—Brian Neary 5.15:05. 22—Mark Lovlien 5.17:23. 23—Kyle Rafford 5.20:37. 24—Jason Douglass 5.21:16. 25—Alan Schmitz 5.23:03. 26—Ben Welnak 5.24:41. 27—Elden Nelson 5.25:07. 28—Paul McKenna 5.27:10. 29—David Thompson 5.28:50.
30—Jim Vint 5.29:40. 31—Dave Noda 5.30:09. 32—Sam Gabuzzi Jr. 5.33:57. 33—Jon Takao 5.34:05. 34—Joshua Wells 5.34:49. 35—Tim Mohn 5.34:51. 36—Stan Sanderson 5.34:56. 37—Greg Harkins 5.36:40. 38—Aaron Foster 5.37:55. 39—Nathan Morgan 5.38:12. 40—Bill Nurge 5.40:13. 41—Paul Shiflet 5.40:22. 42—Eric Draper 5.41:05. 43—Christopher Kelly 5.41:19. 44—Victor Robles 5.41:27.
45—Patrick Sweeney 5.42:38. 46—Brian Williams 5.43:25. 47—Ryan Shirley 5.43:26. 48—Bill McCann 5.43:30. 49—Steven McKovich 5.43:41. 50—Cobe Miller 5.43:42. 51—Dave Anderson 5.46:24. 52—Joe Luniak 5.47:54. 53—Dan Morbeck 5.49:12. 54—Andrew Brightman 5.50:17. 55—Rich Williams 5.50:22. 56—Herberth Corrales 5.50:38. 57—Joseph Wojcik 5.50:48. 58—Kurt Levy 5.52:06. 59—Bart Miller 5.52:11.
60—Fahim Rahim 5.52:17. 61—Tim Meikle 5.53:55. 62—Darin Land 5.53:58. 63—Darin Gillespie 5.56:15. 64—Lee Roquet 5.56:18. 65—Larry Feinman 5.59:17. 66—Thomas Muir 6.00:01. 67—Bruce Gustafson 6.00:02. 68—Juan Carlos Hernandez 6.00:07. 69—Karl Haunold 6.00:18. 70—James Coleman 6.00:20. 71—Joe Kraxner 6.01:25. 72—Parker Hampton 6.01:38. 73—Don Winkle 6.01:40. 74—Roger Mankus 6.02:45.
75—Steve Tips 6.02:47. 76—Ezra Colman 6.04:40. 77—David Coffin 6.04:43. 78—Trent Whitney 6.05:43. 79—Colin Donlan 6.06:43. 80—Jim Cummins 6.12:23. 81—Ray Sciuckas 6.13:25. 82—Patrick Harrington 6.17:38. 83—Matthew Coffey 6.19:11. 84—Ken Kisiel 6.20:48. 85—Michael Wilkinson 6.21:00. 86—Whitney Phillips 6.23:48. 87—Jude Stromberg 6.24:46. 88—Branden Taggart 6.25:46. 89—Sam Gabuzzi 6.27:25.
90—Jonathan Miller 6.28:48 and Geoff Rice 6.28:48. 92—Jacob Shank 6.28:49. 93—Gregg Rice 6.28:50. 94—Joey Herridge 6.28:52. 95—Carl Bontrager 6.29:20. 96—Mitch DeShields 6.29:26. 97—Jose Moran 6.31:13. 98—Bill Nicholson 6.31:22. 99—Gordon Moncibais 6.33:31. 100—Dan Reed 6.35:00. 101—Eric Schoonveld 6.38:50. 102—Jim Beck 6.38:59. 103—Monique Wilberg 6.39:15. 104—Rod Campbell 6.39:16.
105—Jon Holmquist 6.40:47. 106—Mike Sinyard 6.44:29. 107—Dave Lowe 6.45:50. 108—Rusty Dodge 6.47:30. 109—Bob Giles 6.47:42. 110—Rick Rockhold 6.48:51. 111—Peter Allison 6.49:06. 112—Craig Sandstrom 6.50:47. 113—Joshua Parris 6.53:24. 114—Brian Schiller 6.53:25.
115—Scott Bishop 6.56:08 and Bill Josey 6.56:08. 117—Timothy Liscum 7.01:46. 118—Chris Gibbens 7.01:59. 119—Joe Devera 7.03:54. 120—Andrew Fleishman 7.10:21. 121—David Laxson 7.30:37. 122—Jeremy Albrecht 7.31:56. 123—Michael Troy 7.33:32. 124—Randy Berthold 7.35:16. 125—Jim Egnew 7.57:09. 126—Michael Lutticken 7.59:55. 127—David O’Neal 8.00:39. 128—Greg Mondin 8.02:56. 129—LeLan Dains 8.15:49.
130—Eric Benjamin 8.15:50. 131—Thomas Maurer 8.23:38. 132—Mark Peters 8.25:17. 133—Brooks Farris 8.30:42. Also: Erik Mathy 7.39:28 and Rex Parker 10.00:00.
Small Fry 56-mile racers
Women: 1—Patti Schmidt-Iverson 3.03:51. 2—Jodi Fillmore 3.13:28. 3—Katie Bolling 3.14:23. 4—Debbie Hakansson 3.18:36. 5—Kelly Allison 3.37:00. 6—Mallory Burda 3.39:23. 7—Amy Kline 3.39:28. 8—Dorothy Sullivan 3.56:20. 9—Heidi Dohse 3.59:11. 10—Jordan Arnot 3.59:54. 11—Jennifer Schofield 4.01:10. 12—Karoline Droege 4.09:19. 13—Lucy Bourret 4.09:20. 14—Gloria Kimball 4.09:22. 15—Carolyn Ortenburger 4.11:58.
16—Heather Sells 4.12:44. 17—Jennifer Campbell 4.17:46. 18—Makena Gove 4.22:43. 19—Natalia Nurge 4.22:44. 20—Deb Robinson 4.23:51. 21—Becki Neidens 4.24:17. 22—Vanessa Hauswald 4.27:46 and Meghan Bresnyan 4.27:46. 24—Tracy Campbell 4.31:35. 25—Jacyln Applegate 4.40:31. 26—Rebecca DeShields 4.41:04. 27—Lynne Kiesling 4.53:54. 28—Nadine Carter 5.07:15.
29—Anja Sundali 5.13:15. 30—Lara McLean 5.14:20. 31—Daphne King 5.15:16. 32—Nicole Brown 5.15:18. 33—Ryan Waterfield 5.25:26. 34—Shelley Seibel 5.26:26. 35—Stephanie Miller 5.27:06. 36—Ashley Yagla 6.04:33. 37—Charity Arthur 6.25:36. 38—Debbie Rawley 6.30:03. Also: Nancy Giles 1.51:26 and Tory Canfield 3.04:00.
Men: 1—Austin McInerny 2.46:07. 2—Zeb Stroebel-Haft 2.46:51. 3—Jim Santa 2.49:00. 4—Ryan McGlone 2.51:08. 5—Troy Larsen 2.51:10. 6—James Mazzoni 2.54:59. 7—Josh Glick 2.56:32. 8—Chad Carlson 2.58:42. 9—Al Iverson 3.03:51. 10—Gregory Durand 3.10:55. 11—Dylan Gradhandt 3.10:57. 12—John Kennedy 3.10:59. 13—Trent Stumph 3.11:24. 14—Brodie Cobb 3.12:10. 15—Don Wright 3.14:14.
16—Scott Montgomery 3.17:57. 17—Mike Herlinger 3.17:59. 18—Dan Kline 3.20:04. 19—Nicholas Uberuaga 3.20:37 and Jimmy Brazil 3.20:37. 21—John Gorham 3.28:08. 22—Brian Rice 3.34:44. .23—Glen Allison 3.37:01. 24—Rex Sallabanks 3.37:39. 25—Lee Applebaum 3.40:31. 26—Francois Duminy 3.41:04. 27—Mark Grassi 3.46:20. 28—Peter Beeton 3.47:59 and Nate Galpin 3.47:59.
30—Jeff Lamoureux 3.49:04. 31—Mark Villegas 3.50:05. 32—Jerry Edelbrock 3.58:00. 33—Kenneth Roberts 3.58:50. 34—Kevin McMurtry 3.58:53. 35—Mark Williams 3.59:03. 36—Joe Figard 3.59:19. 37—John Leahey 4.00:02. 38—Christopher Klibowitz 4.09:25. 39—Nic Sells 4.12:43. 40—Peter Curran 4.17:43. 41—Frederic Boloix 4.17:44. 42—Mark Eshman 4.17:45. 43—John Campbell 4.17:47 and Dennis Mulvihill 4.17:47.
45—Robert Overson 4.27:44. 46—Mark Fitterer 4.32:53. 47—Michael Wise 4.39:51. 48—David Holmes 4.39:57. 49—John Hunter 4.45:00. 50—Roger Miller 4.54:21. 51—Tullio Celano 4.54:22. 52—Mark Proxell 4.54:50. 53—Edgar Tex Nielsen 5.03:37. 54—Scott Carlin 5.04:51. 55—Scott Carter 5.07:15. 56—Dennis Buckley 5.12:06. 57—Alex Mangold 5.20:43. 58—Matthew Slater 5.36:49. 59—Jay Schaffer 5.40:34.
60—Jeffery Kowalczyk 5.40:48. 61—Gary Carollo 6.05:49. 62—Eric Arthur 6.25:38. 63—Tim Rawley 6.30:04. 64—Jeffrey Neal 8.00:36.
Ketchum’s world champion mountain biker Rebecca Rusch sent the “Private Idaho” bikers on their rides Sunday morning at Ketchum Town Square. Photo by Willy Cook
