The Lonsdale Classic

Last weekend I trecked over to North Vancouver to do something I don't often get a chance to do, photograph sports. Since finishing an internship four years ago I have left sports shooting largely behind with the exception of a few events I have come across in my travels. I want to say how much fun it was to "cover" the races, but I felt rusty as hell trying to keep up with the action and the speed of the riders.

The Lonsdale Classic is a Criterium race which consists of a short track and multiple laps, up to 50-70, for the highest category divisions. The fastest riders were breaking 70km/h and posting lap times of less than a minute. As a bit of a bike geek it was quite humbling to watch riders scream past at that speed knowning that even with a downhill grade and a stiff wind, available only to me, there would be absolutely no way I could keep up. Which was kind of how I felt in trying to photograph the races too. Leah Goldstein crushed the senior womens category, it was an impressive win which I got to watch and shoot from the back seat of the pace car.