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Today saw one breakaway on the road from Avon to Steamboat Springs. The small group was caught by the peloton easily and the race ended in a sprint finish in Steamboat Springs. It wasn’t possible to shoot along the course and make it to the finish. Thousands of people lined […]
After a two hour transfer from Aspen, today’s race took place in Vail, Colorado. The time trial followed a large part of the 1987 Coors Classic Time Trial. It was ten miles long and finished at nearly 10,000′. Hundreds of fans lined the route, especially the last couple of miles […]
George Hincapie won today’s stage from Gunnison to Aspen over Cottonwood Pass and Independence Pass. We were predicting a Colombian would win and George’s parents are from Colombia, so he qualifies. The yellow jersey is now on the back of Tejay Van Garderen of HTC-Highroad. Cottonwood Pass was a pretty […]
Stage 1 started today in Salida, Colorado at the base of the Rockies. The race headed west over Monarch Pass and pretty much stayed together all day. After descending into the town of Crested Butte, the peloton finally broke apart. The temperature today was in the 80s which is pretty […]
The first prologue in the first USA Pro Cycling Challenge was won by German rider, Patrick Gretsch in 8 minutes, 27 seconds. The average speed was 58k per hour. Fans lined the route and took off from work to watch the race. Second was Christian Vandevelde and third was Brent […]
The top three Tour de France winners are expecting to be upstaged by Colombian Sergio Henao to upstage everyone in the mountains. Colombians are known to be great climbers. The altitude in Bogota is around 8,000′ and the mountains go up from there. When governor Hickenlooper spoke about Coloradoans being […]
Tom Danielson seems to be the new revelation in cycling this year. I first saw him in a little known race in 2002, the Estes Park Cycling Challenge. There was a time trial that started in Estes Park and went up into Rocky Mountain National Park. Tom was smoking! He […]
Franck Schleck just finishing a training ride near the team hotel in Colorado Springs. The team has been training in Breckenridge and are now in the Springs. He said the altitude isn’t bothering him but they haven’t been to the really high mountains yet.
COLORADO SPRINGS PROLOGUE First rider starts at 1:15pm near the Garden of the Gods Visitor Center. There will be one minute between riders. The last ten will have 2-minute intervals. You won’t be able to cross the course once the race begins. By car, northbound i25 traffic should take Exit […]
Rebecca Rusch finished in 7:31:45 – smashed the record! Gretchen Reeves finished second in 7:35:48 – Reeves just set the second fastest women’s time in history. Pua Mata was third with a time of 07:37:50. Jenny Smith finished in 7:39:13 Wells crossed the finish line in 6:23:38. The second best […]
