Course Designer Derek Di Grazia

Derek has designed the cross country courses at Bromont for the past five years.  This year there was no doubt about how popular they were among the riders as they walked them in the days preceding the event, and that was borne on out on a cross country day that didn’t see a single major incident across four divisions, Open Training to CCI ***, all day long.  By no means does this mean that Derek builds easy courses – they’re big and beefy, making use of terrain and turns, and ask plenty of questions; I’m sure there were plenty of riders on Saturday night kicking themselves for mistakes that caught them out, but also just as many who were on a high after a glorious gallop round.  Derek was kind enough to stop and extend his already long day by five minutes Saturday evening, to talk to us.