Location: Mountain Creek Ski Resort, Vernon, NJ
Date: 5/16/99
Written By: Justin Thompson

      This race in northern Jersey was an excellent warm up for the coming season. The course was identical to many of the national courses. It was a 7.5 mile lap and experts did 3 laps. The race and each lap started with a 1 mile climb that was, steep, loose, and seemed like it never ended. After that there was a little flat single and double track and then we came bombing down. Once again TREK riders dominated the scene with 3 first places and a fourth place. In the women's race Tara Keefer continued her winning ways by winning comfortably. She overcame dilemmas such as getting a flat tire and dropping her sun glasses to have a good day.
      In the Senior expert/pro/semi pro race, TREK's Mike Yozell rode to a strong victory while showing his strength and experience. In the same race, Mat Myers, a TREK grassroots rider was riding very fast on this day and was in second place. After a hard crash which caused a minor concussion Mat showed everyone that he is a "Bad Man" by finishing in an amazing 4th place.
      The Junior race got off to a fast start with TREK's Justin Thompson leading the pack the wrong way! It wasn't really the wrong way but it's all good. Justin used his mountain goat instincts to break up the field on the first climb. After being caught by one of the juniors up in the singletrack he decided to chill for a little bit behind Scott Nevil. After gapping Nevil on the fast downhill at the end of the first lap he decided to put the pedal to the medal for the last two laps. Justin came in first place beating second place Scott Nevil by about 8 minutes.