Cyclist beats runners at their own sport, wins B.C. mountain race
Three-time Olympic cyclist Geoff Kabush won the 2017 Grouse Grind Mountain Run on Saturday
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A cyclist beat a field of runners at their own sport on the weekend.
Geoff Kabush, a 15-time Canadian champion in various cycling disciplines, won the Grouse Grind Mountain Run, and $1,500, on Saturday. The event features an ascent of Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver, B.C. along the route called the Grouse Grind, a 2.9K trail with 2,830 stairs and 853m of elevation gain.
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Cyclists often excel at the Grouse Grind as much of the route involves stair climbing. Sebastian Salas – yes, a cyclist – holds the Grouse Grind men’s course record.
“I heard cyclocross involves a bit of running so I did a little this weekend at the Grouse Grind Mountain Run,” Kabush wrote on social media. “It was more like walking slowly up a really steep hill completely red-lined however.”
The 40-year-old North Vancouver local continues to race competitively and rides for SCOTT Sports.
The three-time Olympian for Canada as a mountain biker won the Grouse race by 14 seconds in 28:06 over Eric Carter and Jordan Guenette behind him. Robyn Mildren won the women’s event in 34:35. Both course records – 25:01 and 30:52 – survived another day.
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