Arianna Schafer, of Barrington, Ill., slipped and fell but got right back up again. In fact, she went on to finish second in the girls' 10-12 race.
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Vin Hludzinski (#117), of Boulder, Col., looks for a way around Lucas Stierwalt, of Maineville, Ohio, in the boys' 10-12 race.
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Petra Schmidtmann, of Nerderland, Col., goes down early in the female junior 10-12 race.
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Sean Goguen, of Hopedale, Mass., takes the inside line in the male junior 10-12 race.
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The 10- to 12-year-old boys and girls round a sharp corner as their parents' cheer them on.
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Rachael Jensen, of Shell Lake, Wis., found herself alone on the course in the junior women 17-18 race.
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Madelaine Melcher, of Mentone, Cal., bears down in the junior women 17-18 race.
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Mina Anderberg, of Boulder, Col., crests a hill. She climbed onto the podium, too, with a second-place finish in the 15-16 junior women's race.
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Shannon Mallory (62), of Bellingham, Wash., leads Victoria Gates, of Fitchburg, Mass., in the junior women 15-16 race.
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The steely gaze of Ellen Noble, of Kennebunkport, Maine, and her determination to win paid off in the junior women 17-18 race.
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This is what the course looked like on Friday, leaving it difficult to imagine what it would like to ride on Saturday and Sunday during the elite races.
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In the mud and fog, some sections of the cyclocross course were more conducive to walking than riding.
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Doing what the Badger Prairie Park sign says, Lauryn Andre, of Longmont, Col., races in the junior female 17-18 division.
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Tiziana DeHorney, of Albuquerque, NM, shows some fatigue in the junior female 15-16 race. She finished seventh.
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Victoria Gates, of Fitchburg, Mass., braces herself for a long, slippery downhill in the female juniors 15-16 race.
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Choosing a line in the mud rather than in the snow and slush, Katherine Santos, a 15-16 age division racer from Louisville, Ky., leads a couple competitors. She finished in fifth place.
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Andrea Casebolt, of Olympia, Wash., muscles up a slick hill. She raced in the 17-18 age division on Jan. 11.
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Kelly Catlin, of Arden Hills, Minn., racing in the junior women 17-18 category, clears both barriers.
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The junior women, ages 17-18, get underway on Friday, Jan. 11, at the 2013 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships held at Badger Prairie Park in Verona, Wis.
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