TERRACE — Mike

Christensen is chalking his .

scries.of tough cycling races in
Quebec up to experience.
, The Terrace rider didn’t come

up. with any. outstanding races -

or victories, but says he con-
tinued to learn.

“It was a learning experience
trip to say the least,’
Christensen said. “I didn’t have

any fantastic rides, but I think -
' it’s going to. pay off in the long

run,””
He raced in several major

stage races. in Quebec  City,.

Montreal and. in southern
Quebec.

Christensen ° finished in the

middle of the pack at the finish.

in several of the races, and com-
pleted all the races he entered,

One race in Quebec City fa-
cluded an extremely steep — 22
per cent grade — hillelimb
where Christensen, who excels
in the hills, managed to outper-
form several riders who normal:
ly beat him.

“It was great,”’ he said. “in -

the hilly stuff E was feeling real-
ly quite good,”

And at the Canadian Tire
Grand Prix in Montreal — pro-
bably the biggest race for

amateur riders all year — he.

had respectable finishes.

He finished with the pack in
the first-stage criterium, and
was about 25 seconds back of
the winner in a 4.6-kilometre
lime trial the next day. The

‘experience’

120-kilometre third-stage road

race saw him finish about 47h |.

out of 130 riders, a significant
achievement after fighting back

from a flat tire early inthe race: “9

He had to cancel on the last

major race in Quebec — a five- - rs
stage race — after picking up a - EE:
_cold,

Christensen’s no longer rac-
ing: with the Vancouver-based

team ABI. He and two other .

riders had a: personality clash

with other members of the team.

and decided to leave. |

. In Quebec he was racing in.
the first race-as a B.C. team.
member and, later'on, with a
Toronto-based ‘team ‘called: the

D’ Ornollas racing team. oa

He’s also got anew bike — an

ultra-light carbon fibre-frame
model ‘that flies up the hills —
after landing a sponsorship with
Specialized Bicycles and Scott
handle bars,
_ Christensen expects to be
joining another B.C. amateur
team soon, and will be racing
independently until then,

Last Wednesday he did a
small hillclimb race at Cypress
Bowl in Vancouver, and won it.
“That felt good,”’ he said, “it
was a bit of a high that may help
me get back ontrack.”

This past weekend, he was
back in B.C., racing at the Tour

de White Rock, a national team

qualifying race. Results next
week.

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