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If you didn't already notice the Kona Midwest Racing link that has been at the bottom of this page, my new sponsor for this season is in fact Kona Midwest Racing. I also have SportCrafters rollers helping me on the side.

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Old Skool

I couldn't get results from year 2000, but here are results from my second year of mountain bike racing from http://www.tailwind.net/cgi-bin/racedesc.pl?all_2001

Orion Oaks Paul Bunyan 2/11/01
Sport 18 and under

I was the only one in my class
1 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY

Brighton tt 5/13/01
Sport 15-18

1 GIBSON, LEE 0:56:57.53
2 RHODES, KYLE 1:04:22.44
3 RENNER, SCOTt 1:06:07.34
4 DIAZ, EMILIO 1:06:31.58
5 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 1:06:43.63
6 CROSS, RYAN 1:14:36.70

Whiskey Creek XC 6/17/01
Sport 15-18

1 DAY, JAMES 1:15:34.20
2 BEST, MICHAEL 1:17:06.05
3 MCKAY, CHAD 1:18:34.53
4 BEST, DAVID 1:20:21.81
5 BENDROTH, NATHAN 1:23:39.54
6 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 1:25:19.84

TK Lawless tt 6/24/01
Sport 15-18

1 GIBSON, LEE 0:52:37.47
2 NEFF, ISAAC 0:55:14.00
3 RHODES, KYLE 0:55:18.60
4 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 0:56:39.16
5 RENNER, SCOTT 1:02:07.74

Bloomer XC 7/1/01
Sport 15-18

1 GIBSON, LEE 1:24:39.50
2 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 1:25:11.40
3 RHOADES, KYLE 1:28:25.55
4 BEST, DAVID 1:29:18.02
5 DIAZ, EMILIO E 1:30:34.62
6 RENNER, SCOTT 1:35:23.21
7 SCOTT, JASON 1:43:17.33
8 PAVLICA, ANDREW 1:57:27.49

Ruby XC 7/15/01
Sport 15-18

1 RHODES, KYLE 1:24:01.59
2 GIBSON, LEE 1:27:53.98
3 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 1:28:53.11
4 MURPHY, KEVIN 1:30:03.34
5 BEST, MICHAEL 1:33:45.23
6 BEST, DAVID 1:47:05.29

Stony Creek tt 7/21/01
Sport 15-18

1 GIBSON, LEE 0:54:11.01
2 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 0:54:14.02
3 RHODES, KYLE 0:54:16.02
4 BEST, DAVID 0:55:06.48
5 PEDERSON, ERIK 0:55:41.21
6 BEST, MICHAEL 0:56:26.73
7 SCOTT, BRIAN 0:57:48.79
8 CLOSE, MATT 1:00:35.99

Big M XC 8/5/01
Sport 15-18

1 JELLUM, ERIC JOHN 1:20:52.88
2 RHODES, KYLE 1:24:09.11
3 WHITTEY, STEVEN 1:28:43.66
4 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 1:29:14.34
5 MCKAY, CHAD 1:30:35.73
6 BIALIK, LANCE 1:33:20.37
7 BEST, DAVID 1:37:59.38
8 BILLMEIER, MIKE 1:38:55.93
9 BOWERMAN, STEVEN 1:39:23.27


TK Lawless tt 8/18/01
Sport 15-18

1 GIBSON, LEE 0:48:29.53
2 RHODES, KYLE 0:50:36.47
3 RENNER, SCOTT-2 1:00:16.77
DNF LAPRAIRIE, RANDY (flat tire, no spare!)

Fort Custer tt 8/26/01
sport 15-18

Lee and I took off together. A few miles away from the finish he dropped his sunglasses, stopped to pick them up, and still beat me.

1 GIBSON, LEE 1:06:13.51
2 LAPRAIRIE, RANDY 1:07:13.23
3 HOLCOMB, SAM 1:11:19.41
4 RHODES, KYLE 1:11:50.73
5 BEST, DAVID 1:14:27.55
6 RENNER, SCOTT-1 1:19:16.19
7 BEST, MICHAEL 1:24:58.12

Stony Creek XC 9/9/01
sport 15-18

I remember it was pouring rain and the trail was a river, but I raced anyway. I ended up loosing my rear shifting and was stuck in 2/9 (no granny ring) This on top of bonking because of some stupid energy supplement I tried did me in.

1 ROOT, JONAS 1:14:49.49
2 JELLUM, ERIC 1:15:52.19
3 RHODES, KYLE 1:16:15.40
4 BEST, DAVID 1:21:24.45
5 BOWERMANN, STEVE 1:22:38.36
6 BEST, MICHAEL 1:25:55.83
7 MURPHY, KEVIN 1:27:01.40
DNF LAPRAIRIE, RANDY

Glacier Gorge 9/29/01
sport 15-18

I bonked here, too. I think the huge hills totally wiped me out.

1 Pete Hall 1:29:34
2 Ryan Hoeft 1:30:10
3 Michael Best 1:33:17
4 David Best 1:34:12
5 Randy Laprairie 1:39:05

Iceman Cometh 11/3/01
Sport 15-18

1 Eric Jellum 1:49:29
2 Pete Hall 1:49:38
3 Ryan Hoeft 1:53:15
4 Nathan Bendroth 1:56:05
5 David Best 1:56:07
6 Michael Best 1:58:13
7 Kyle Rhodes 1:59:16
8 Randy Laprairie 2:01:57
9 John Reid 2:05:30
10 Travis Hanson 2:08:09
11 Chapan Konkright 2:09:20
12 Matt Novak 2:09:27
13 Jake Fountain 2:10:06
14 Brandon Sprouse 2:14:13
15 Christopher Bielski 2:16:41
16 Josh Ayers 2:17:24
17 Andrew Maxey 2:18:28
18 Sean Patrick 2:21:57
19 Andy Mayhew 2:24:29
20 Taylor Kloosterman 2:26:24
21 Matthew Belic 2:47:32
22 Thomas Ainsworth 3:21:54

I did a few more races in 2002, some in expert 24 and under, and some in sport 15-18, but then I mysteriously disappeared mid summer.