2008 Colorado State Cyclocross Men's Open Race Pictures

The 2008 Colorado Cyclocross Championships took place on and around the compact campus of Arapahoe Ridge High School on the eastern edge of Boulder. The setting was picturesque, if a bit incongruous, offering majestic views of the Flatirons mountains to the East and the towering (albeit "clean burning")smokestacks of Xcel Energy across the street to the North. The course was a rolling combination of fast pavement sections through the campus, strategically placed barriers, trails through the woods, and a particularly treacherous sandpit that featured deep sand around a hairpin u-turn. Effects from a light snowfall the day before had disappeared, so the course was dry and hard packed with temperatures in the 50s.. Velo News rider Matthew Pacocha was the winner.