Heather Jackson and Justin Peck win Stetina’s Paydirt gravel race

Heather Jackson received a second consecutive girls’s title at Stetina’s Paydirt on Saturday, whereas Justin Peck secured the victory within the males’s total.

Jackson set the marker with a solo lead of two minutes on the primary of the three timed segments throughout the lengthy course, 72 miles with 5,400 toes of elevation acquire throughout the blended terrain south of Carson City, Nevada. Kristen Legan closed the margin to 33 seconds after the second section, however Jackson then stormed away on the third and remaining part to seal the very best total time. Leah van der Linden was third, whereas Flavia Oliveira Parks, the general girls’s winner in 2022, completed fourth forward of Lauren Cantwell.

Last yr, Sarah Sturm recorded the quickest cumulative time on the segments of the course, however Jackson earned 20 bonus seconds in a post-race tire toss to spice up her into first place total. This yr the toss delivered money prizes, not bonus seconds, on the race which has a professional girls’s prize purse of $10,000 cut up among the many prime 5 total.

In the lads’s race Veteran Lachlan Morton took the early lead with the very best time on the primary section, driving 5 seconds quicker than Peck and fellow mountain biker Lucas Miers. But the race in the end got here right down to a battle of the 2 21-year-olds, with Peck sprinting two seconds quicker than Miers within the remaining section for the victory. Morton took third place.

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