2009 Cyclocross Nationals Mens Race Post Race Interviews

Tim Johnson: That was really a best case scenario. When we started the race, we
wanted to have a good start. We wanted to be able to control the
race from the crowd and not have to make any big moves to catch
back up to the leading. I don’t know how he ended up – smooth is
fast. The only thing I was thinking about is I have – it's tough. It
wasn’t so easy to make a mistake. Even if I did think I was going
that fast, I could have slipped out or down or whatever. That’s one
second, two seconds; you know in an hour long race, it really adds
up.

If the race isn’t won in the first lap then it's the lost in the first
eight or nine of 10 laps. So we do it with the whole race. So I just
try to be as quick as possible.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Ryan Trebon: That was an awesome course man. It was hard you now. It was a --
definitely was not an easy race out there today.

Interviewer: --

Ryan Trebon: Oh it was awesome up there man especially going down to the --
and stuff, it's super loud you know. It was good. I had a really good
time out racing today. It would have been nice to win but with
about three laps to go, I was -- I was keeping it – on 10 seconds but
I just -- I was kind of hurt you know and I start to come apart a
little bit. And that was it. I knew I wasn’t going to get him back
unless he flies and crashed. So I was just trying to keep it steady to
keep it close enough to where if he did make any mistake, I would
catch back out to him but you know we rode a good race.

Ryan Trebon: No -- I didn’t really make any mistakes, a couple of bubbles but I
had no problems with it.

Interviewer: And your legs are doing good?

Ryan Trebon: Yeah.

Interviewer: -- I mean Johnson just really know how to steal a race.

Ryan Trebon: Yeah, he rode really well and you now Jeremy went down pretty
fast in the camera section. And you know I think John flooded on
the second lap and sort of got away and just kind of – that was the
race right there. I’m just trying to you know – that’s the thing I was
looking forward, just trying to keep it steady and not make any
mistakes because –

-- section, you could really pedal hard. And then it was just so
much close in those guys you know they shorter little dudes and
tiny little --camera. It was a good course.

Interviewer: Thank you.

Jonathan Page: I'm glad I had given it a shot. It's always difficult to do it. I'm glad
I tried.

Interviewer: -- do you find it a disadvantage to be not racing these guys all
season right here on nationals?

Jonathan Page: Alright, there’s a lot of -- it's not the race against the best in the
world, it's not just – I don’t it a disadvantage. I find a disadvantage
when it gets all dry at night. I'm not -- I have no excuses. They
were all fast.