PC: Kim White
It’s been a long run, and Hagerty’s Lauri Brockmiller is looking golden for the Competition win.
The dark and shadowy figures of Sue Stephens and Mackenzie Woodring are looming, but Lauri Brockmiller got the job done at Saturday’s Peak2Peak. With some great racing throughout the field and a particularly plucky ride from Lauri, she did enough to take third place on the day and move her points tally out to 73 on the season. She’s now safely ahead of teammate Bridgit Widrig, who didn’t race. Race winner Mackenzie Woodring took the full 15 points on the day and is now up to fourth place, just six out of a podium finish. Sue Stephens made big gains as well, moving up to sixth place and six points out of fifth.
Stephens’ GRIT teammate Erin Vicary was the biggest mover of the race, now up to 18th place, up from the mid-30s.
The Iceman Cometh will serve as a regular A race worth 20 points. Like the men’s race, the out-of-staters could create big points gaps. Brockmiller needs to register a few points to be totally safe, while Woodring will need to be perfect to get within touch of second place. After Iceman, there’s the finale of the Competition on December 1, Pumpkin Pie SuperPrestige.
Here are the Top Banana Competition Standings after Peak2Peak:
| Lauri Brockmiller | 73 |
| Bridgit Widrig | 65 |
| Amanda Schaap | 46 |
| Mackenzie Woordring | 40 |
| Zoe Reeves | 36 |
| Sue Stephens | 34 |
| Melissa Ryba | 34 |
| Chelsea Strate | 31 |
| Sarah Demerly | 31 |
| Erin Disterheft | 31 |
| Jane Van Hof | 30 |
| Dori Lieb | 29 |
| Kim Chapman | 24 |
| Wendy Zamzow | 22 |
| Alicia Trevino | 20 |
| Kayla Starr | 20 |
| Amy Stauffer | 19 |
| Erin Vicary | 19 |
| Marie Dersham | 16 |
| Kati Krikke | 16 |
| Anne Schwartz | 13 |
| Samantha Brode | 13 |
| Janet Edwards | 12 |
| Danielle Mullis | 11 |
| Patricia DeVost | 10 |
| Angela Bowers | 10 |
| Stephanie Swan | 10 |
| JoAnn Cranson | 10 |
| Susan Shaw | 10 |
| Laurel Peak | 10 |
| Andrea Hunderman | 9 |
| Vanessa Stauffer | 9 |
| Danielle Musto | 9 |
| Victoria Steen | 9 |
| Adrienne O’Day | 7 |
| Julie Whalen | 8 |
| Bobbie Liegl | 8 |
| Michael Mihelich | 8 |
| Elizabeth Hiser | 8 |
| Sherry Grimard | 7 |
| Melissa Colflesh | 7 |
| Summer Olmstead | 7 |
| Kathy Kirk | 7 |
| Katie Mann | 7 |
| Molly Wolf | 7 |
| Lillian Ruiz | 6 |
| Terri Brock | 6 |
| Keri Sederberg | 6 |
| Sarah Fredrickson | 6 |
| Laura Melendez | 5 |
| Tina Coughly | 5 |
| Janelle Cole | 5 |
| Kristen Arnold | 5 |
| Cori Shek | 4 |
| Mindy Fernando | 4 |
| Merry Van Der Lind | 3 |
| Gabriella Sterne | 3 |
| Maddi Miller | 3 |
| Rachel Decker | 3 |
| Angie O’Brien | 2 |
| Kathy Roche-Wallace | 2 |
| Christina Peek | 2 |
| Gail Ranville | 1 |
| Elizabeth So | 1 |
| Michelle Ryan | 1 |