Cherry Pie trumpets start of Oregon’s 2010 season
Beautiful spring weather opened the OBRA season at the '09 Cherry Pie Road Race.
ADAIR — The Oregon road season takes off this Saturday with the Cherry Pie Road Race Northwest of Albany, and both cat 5 men’s fields are already full. It seems the bit of rain forecast for the Willamette Valley hasn’t dampened enthusiasm to pin on the numbers and hit the roads.
Groups will do one or two laps of the 25 mile course after a neutral roll out from Adair. The classic spring course serves up plenty of flats, a few rollers and a painful uphill finish. The first morning group takes off at 10 a.m., and the last afternoon group sets out at 1 p.m.
CMG racing’s Jacob Rathe won 2009′s cat 1/2 men’s race in front of Team Oregon’s Kennett Peterson. Therapeutic Associate’s Lisa Turnbull won the cat 1/2/3 women’s race on a beautifully sunny and unseasonably warm February day.
Check out some photos from last year’s race.
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- Beautiful spring weather opened the OBRA season at the ’09 Cherry Pie Road Race.
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- The women’s field tackles the ’09 Cherry Pie course.
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- The cat 3 men’s field passes through the farmland northwest of Albany during last year’s race.
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- Jacob Rathe started the season right last year with a win at the season-opening Cherry Pie Road Race.
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- The uphill finish at Cherry Pie usually thins out the field for the finale.
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