Tour of the Gila Stage 2 – Live Replay

Posted on 03. May, 2012 by lyne in race

Replay of live updates of stage 2, the Inner Loop road race, of the SRAM Tour of the Gila.

• Carmen Small 3rd, Alison Powers 4th & Emily Kachorek 5th #tourgila 20:23:59
• Kristin Armstrong wins in 2-up sprint againt Janel Holcomb #tourgila 20:23:03
• Women at 5k to go #tourgila 20:14:02
• And now we wait for the women, estimated time is 2:25 pm – so one hour and 24 minutes from now #tourgila 19:01:37
• Field all back together with about 18km to go #tourgila 19:00:28
• Field reacting & chasing hard after the Mancebo attack #tourgila 19:00:19
• Chase of 3 caught original break which came back together as thy crested the climb #tourgila 18:59:46
• Chase of 3 from the field Mancebo-RCC, de Maar- UHC, & Arango-COL #tourgila 18:59:24
• Rabou & Mehias attacked the break, but it came back together on 3rd & final KOM #tourgila 18:59:03
• 25 km to go, gap at 1:15 #tourgila 18:58:23
• Coming down fast now, at 1:30 to field at feedzone #tourgila 18:58:05
• Gap at 2 minutes, on 3rd climb. Cars coming up to break for final time probably. #tourgila 18:57:54
• gap now at 3:20 #tourgila 18:57:22
• Parrish takes 3rd KOM ahead of Rabou, Mehias & Stemper #tourgila 18:56:59
• Gap holding at 3:05. Watching the break – all seem to be rotating through #tourgila 18:56:45
• At 50km, Atkins was chasing solo but sat up. Break of 6 up the road. gap at 1:10 #tourgila 18:56:33
• Lopez is highest on GC at 1:14 down #tourgila 18:56:13
• Stemper takes sprint #2 ahead of Lopez, Eckmann & Megias #tourgila 18:55:35
• Magner-BHD pulls out #tourgila 18:55:11
• Chasers caught break: 6 off the front with 1:20 on the field at mike 21 #tourgila 18:55:03
• Okay back to tweets that never went out – if that’s okay with you all. 18:53:36
• @nthogersen have to wait at the finish for the women now #tourgila in reply to nthogersen 18:49:03
• @Laura_Weislo as you know it’s impossible to please everyone in reply to Laura_Weislo 18:48:28
• Winner Eric Young waiting for the podium #tourgila http://t.co/xb2EcOiO 18:36:16
• Eric Young with the win, Francisco Mancebo 2nd & Chad Beyer 3rd unofficially #tourgila 18:21:38
• Bissell does it again. #tourgila 18:17:45
• @sweide guess I should just go home in reply to sweide 18:14:17
• Back to current race, field together Bissell lined up at the front. Trying to repeat last year. #tourgila 18:09:47
• Parrish takes 2nd KOM, followed by Stemper, Rabou & Megias. #tourgila 18:08:55
• And Eckmann-CGC, Arango-CLT. Cooke-XRG brides up #tourgila 18:08:37
• The break is Grajales & Rabou-RCC, Gianetti-XRG, Atkins & Eastman-BLS, AJM & Sweeting- KPC, Preidker-TT1, Amaran-JSH … #tourgila 18:06:41
• So 2 off the front, 4 in chase 1 at 10 sec & chase 2 at 25 sec #tourgila 18:06:17
• 4 off with 55 sec: Rabou-RCC, Parrish-OPT, Stemper-KPC, Megias-TT1. Eckmann-CGC chasing solo. #tourgila 18:06:02
• Field back together, 1 rider attacking #tourgila 18:04:27
• Break re-absorbed 1Km from KoM. Huffman-CGC attacked but reeled in #tourgila 18:03:58
• Autobus forming at the back, 15 sec off he back of the field #tourgila 18:03:41
• Creed-OPT takes 1st KOM, then Amaran-JSH, de Maar-UHC, Lopez l-MEX #tourgila 18:03:26
• 11 riders in break with 2 chasers at 20 sec& field at 30 sec #tourgila 18:02:41
• Okay get ready for a tweet blast #tourgila 18:01:11
• Cant tweet from moto RT @sweide: @podium_live Time to hire a moto – or a fast horse… #tourgila 15:24:59
• Atkins took 1st sprint followed by Van Dyk & Eastman – reshuffle in break #tourgila 15:24:10
• 8 riders trying to escape with 1 chaser – stay tuned for names #tourgila 15:19:18
• And we are racing #tourgila 15:11:08
• Well lose cell service throughout the stage but good news is that there’s service at start/finish #tourgila 15:09:18
• BMC gets a flat in neutral #tourgila 15:08:50
• We are moving #tourgila 15:03:38
• Okay just been informed that UCI rule will be enforced & that means no photos from media car #tourgila 15:01:29
• Teams with sprinters will battle it today: UHC, Exergy, Kend/5hr, Jamis/Sutter Home, Bissell & more #tourgila 14:33:32
• Last year the Bissell train took control win 3km to go to deliver Pipp to the line with perfect leadout #tourgila 14:33:25
• Crosswinds have often played havoc with the field too. Calm at the start/finish but who knows what awaits us #tourgila 14:33:21
• So the start of mens stage should be pretty active #tourgila 14:32:51
• Others will want to go to, for sprint points, KOM & time bonuses – all just exposure #tourgila 14:32:19
• Exergy also has it’s eye on the green jersey, leading out Loader for 1pt yesterday #tourgila 14:32:09
• Talked to Mach yesterday & he said he might defend his green jersey. That means going into a break again. #tourgila 14:31:33
• Both have 3 QOM/KOM, all 3 cat 3, at miles 11.6, 21.1 and 66.8 #tourgila 13:17:21
• Women start at 10:40am & do 77.9 miles (125.4km). Also have the same 2 intermediate sprint points & at the finish #tourgila 13:16:46
• Starting at 9am, men do 79.1 miles (127.3km), start/end at Ft Bayard. 2 intermediate sprint points, at miles 5.7 & 41.5 – pts at finish 13:16:00
• On tap today is stage 1, Inner Loop Road Race, at #tourgila – typically a bunch finish. 13:14:48

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